Children`s Peer Competence : Relationships to Maternal Parenting Goals , Parenting Behaviors , and Management Strategies
Ju Hee Park,Un Hai Rhee
Abstract
This study examined patterns of parenting variables in relation to children`s peer competence. The subjects were 333 5- and 6-year-old children in early childhood settings. Classroom teachers rated each children`s peer competence, and mothers responded to questionnaires on parenting goals, parenting behaviors, and management strategies pertaining to peer relations. Mothers` warm and encouraging behavior, mediation-supervision strategies, and parenting goals for peer competence were positively related to children`s peer competence; that is, high warmth and encouragement and mediation-supervision of mothers was strongly associated with children`s peer competence. Mothers high in parenting goals for peer competence used more management strategies to enhance peer relations which in turn contributed to children`s peer competence.
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