Relationships Between Parenting Attitudes and Young Children's Injury Behavior

부모의 양육태도와 유아의 상해위험행동과의 관계

  • Kim, Hye-Gum (Department of Child Care Education, Dongnam Health College)
  • Received : 2007.12.31
  • Accepted : 2008.05.09
  • Published : 2008.06.30

Abstract

This study examined relationships between parenting attitudes and young children's injury risk behavior by age and gender. Subjects were 161 3- to 5-year old children and their parents. Instruments were the revised Parenting Attitudes Questionnaire (Reitman et al., 2002) and the Injury Behavior Checklist (Speltz et al., 1990). Data were analyzed by MANOV A. Results were that: 1) Fathers were more permissive to daughters; mothers were more permissive to younger children. 2) Older children had more injury risk behaviors than younger children; boys engaged in more injury risk behaviors than girls. 3) Fathers' authoritarian and mothers' permissive attitudes were positively related to children's injury risk behavior, respectively. Fathers' and mothers' authoritative attitudes were negatively related to children's injury risk behavior.

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