Korean Journal of Human Ecology (한국생활과학회지)

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Child's Happiness: Effects of Emotionality, Mother's Depression and Parenting Behaviors

유아의 행복에 대한 유아의 정서성과 어머니의 우울 및 양육행동의 영향

  • Kwon, Yeon Hee (Department of Early Childhood Education, Pukyong National University)
  • 권연희 (부경대학교 유아교육과)
  • Received : 2013.06.05
  • Accepted : 2013.07.01
  • Published : 2013.08.30
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Abstract

This study investigated the relations among a child's emotionality, mother's depression and parenting behaviors in predicting a child's happiness. Participants were 384 children(175 boys, 209 girls) and their mothers. The teachers completed the rating scale to measure a child's happiness. A child's emotionality, mother's depression and parenting behaviors were assessed by a mother-reported questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlations, and hierarchical multiple regressions. Results showed that child's emotionality was negatively related to their happiness. Mother's depression had a negative relation to child's happiness. Mother's warmth-encouragement, overprotection-permission, and reject-nonintervention was significantly related to a child's happiness. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that the interaction of child's emotionality and mother's reject-nonintervention predicted child's happiness. Child's emotionality, whose mother demonstrated a higher level of reject-nonintervention, was associated significantly with happiness. In addition, the association between mother's depression and child's happiness was mediated by mother's warmth-encouragement and reject-nonintervention. Results suggest the importance of mother's role in the context of intervention planning for child's happiness.

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