어머니 양육태도가 유아의 애착안정성에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of mothers' parenting attitudes and smartphone overdependence on children's attachment stability.
 Methods The participants were 185 parents of children's in D city and G city who were in kindergartens and childcare centers. To examine the relationship between mothers' parenting attitude, smartphone overdependence, and children's attachment stability. we conducted analyses including means, correlations, and multiple regression analysis.
 Results The results of this study are as follows. First, The difference in smartphone overdependence according to the level of smartphone use and use of mothers and children's was confirmed. Second, Mother's parenting attitude and smartphone overdependence are negatively correlated, the mother's parenting attitude and attachment stability are positively correlated, there was a negative correlation between children's smartphone overdependence and attachment stability. Third, In the relationship between affectionate parenting attitudes and attachment stability of children's smartphone overdependence was found to have a partial mediating effect.
 Conclusions These results confirmed that the mother's affectionate parenting attitude and excessive use of smartphones were significant for the attachment stability of children's, this suggests that intervention is needed in consideration of the mother's parenting attitude and smartphone overdependence as a way to support the stable attachment stability of children's.