Mothers' and Teachers' Perceptions of Role Difficulty, Role-Efficacy, Attribution on Their Children's Cognitive and Social Development

유아의 인지.사회 발달에 대한 어머니와 교사의 역할 난이도, 역할 효율성 및 귀인과정

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations among mothers' and teachers' perceptions of role-efficacy, role-efficacy, attributions, and young children's cognitive and social development. The subjects were 163 mothers and teachers of 5-year-old children attending to kindergartens in Korea. The results showed that cognitions of mothers were very similar to those of teachers. When they perceived difficulty in enhancing children's cognitive and social development, they tended to think that it would be more efficient for someone else to help the children. Children's cognitive and social development were not positive especially when the mothers and teachers showed high role-difficulty and low role-efficacy.