Korean Journal of Child Studies 1996;17(2): 47-59.
어머니 - 유아 의사소통과 유아의 자아개념과의 관계
심성경
Relationship between Mother - Child Communication and the Self - Concept of Young Children
Sung Kyoung Sim
Abstract
This study analyzed the relationship between mother-child communication and the self-concept of young children. The subjects were 93 three-, four-, and five-year-old kindergarten children and their mothers in the city of Chunju. The self-concept test, mother-child communication inventory for children and the mother-child communication questionnaire for mothers were used. The data were analyzed by T-test, General Linear Models analysis, Duncan`s Multiple Range test, Paired T-test, and Pearson`s correlation coefficient. The major findings were that (1) the children perceived mother-child communication more intensively than mothers, (2) the more positive communication the children perceived they had with their mothers, the higher their self-concept, (3) the self-concept of 5-year-olds was more highly correlated with perception about mother-child communication than the self-concept of the younger children, and (4) boys` self-concept was more highly correlated with perceived mother-child communication than girls`.