면대면 및 스마트폰에서 중학생이 지각한 부모-자녀 의사소통과 부모공감능력 차이

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine how parent-adolescent communication and parental empathy are performed in face-to-face and smart-phone communication methods respectively, and to compare the differences. For this purpose, we developed a parent-adolescent communication scale and a parental empathy scale for 304 middle school students in Seoul. For the analysis, SPSS 23.0 was used to perform frequency analysis, average, standard deviation, response sample t-test, and independent sample t-test. The results of the study were as follows. First, the overall trend comparison results showed that levels of the sympathetic emotional responses, accept perspectives, and cold emotional responses among the sub-factors of parent- adolescent open communication and the ability of the parent to empathize were relatively higher than the average in both face-to-face and smart-phone communication methods. Second, the result of differences in communication methods showed that the level of face-to-face communication method were higher than smart-phone in parent-adolescent communication and parental empathy ability. Third, in face-to-face and smart-phone communication, gender and communication contents with parents were statistically significant. This study is another meaningful in that it is an early research that explores differences between parent-adolescent communication and parental empathy ability in face-to-face and smart-phone communication methods.