Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the interactional effect of mother’s parenting attitude and father’s child-rearing involvement on young children’s ego-resilience. A total of 262 mothers with young children aged 3-5 that lived in Gwangju and Jeollanamdo participated in this study. They were asked to answer the question about their own parenting attitude, spouse’s child-rearing involvement, and children’s ego-resilience. The data were analyzed using analysis of frequency, Pearson`s correlation coefficient, and hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The main results are as follows. First, there were some interactional effect between mother’s parenting attitude and father’s child-rearing involvement on young children’s ego-resilience. Second, the interaction effects were different among the sub-factors of mother’s parenting attitude and father’s child-rearing involvement. The present study suggests that it is necessary to encourage both mothers’ positive parenting attitude and fathers’ frequent child-rearing involvement in order to improve young children’s ego-resilience. In addition, it should be understood that the interaction effects between mothers’ and fathers’ parenting on children’s ego-resilience are different depending on the sub-factors of mother’s and father’s parenting.

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