Journal of Families and Better Life (가정과삶의질연구)

Korean Home Management Association (가정과삶의질학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

The Relations between Maternal Personality, Preschoolers' Temperament, and Overprotective and Controlling Parenting

어머니의 인성특성 및 유아의 기질과 과보호 및 통제적 양육행동 간의 관계

  • Kim, Na-Hee (Interdisciplinary Program in Child Development & Intervention, Ewha Womans Univ.) ;
  • Park, Bo-Kyung (Dept. of Child Development, Ewha Womans Univ.) ;
  • Doh, Hyun-Sim (Dept. of Child Development, Ewha Womans Univ.)
  • 김나희 (이화여자대학교 대학원 아동학협동과정) ;
  • 박보경 (이화여자대학교 아동학과) ;
  • 도현심 (이화여자대학교 아동학과)
  • Received : 2012.03.15
  • Accepted : 2012.05.03
  • Published : 2012.06.30
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

This study examined the relations between maternal personality, preschoolers' temperament, and overprotective and controlling parenting. A total of 285 mothers whose children aged from 4 to 6 years participated in this study. Mothers completed a set of questionnaires on their personalities, their children's temperament, and their overprotective and controlling parenting. Data were analyzed by regression analyses and t-test. First, maternal extraversion was negatively related to overprotective and controlling parenting, and maternal neuroticism was positively related to these parenting variables. Second, preschoolers' adaptability was negatively linked to overprotective and controlling parenting, and preschoolers' activity was positively linked to these parenting variables. Lastly, preschoolers' adaptability moderated the impact of maternal extraversion on controlling parenting. Maternal extraversion was a negative predictor of controlling parenting when preschoolers' adaptability was low. This relation was non-significant when preschoolers' adaptability was high. These results clearly indicate that both maternal personality and preschoolers' temperament play crucial roles in overprotective and controlling parenting.

Keywords

References

  1. Abidin, R. R.(1992). The determinants of parenting behavior. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 21, 407-412. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15374424jccp2104_12
  2. Bayer, J. K., Sanson, A. V. & Hemphill, S. A.(2006). Parent influences on early childhood internalizing difficulties. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 27, 542-559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2006.08.002
  3. Belsky, J.(1984). The determinants of parenting: A process model. Child Development, 55, 83-96. https://doi.org/10.2307/1129836
  4. Carey, W. B. & McDevitt, S. C.(1978). Revision of the infant temperament questionnaire. Pediatrics, 61, 735-739.
  5. Choi, Y.(1995). A study on the predictability of the maternal attitude from preschooler's temperament and mother's mental stability. Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association, 33(5), 187-196.
  6. Chung, M. & Kim, Y.(2003). Maternal parenting experience, depression, marital conflict, & parenting behavior predicting school children's maladjustment. Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association, 41(8), 123-137.
  7. Clark, L. A., Kochanska, G. & Ready, R.(2000). Mothers' personality and its interaction with child temperament as predictors of parenting behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 274-285. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.79.2.274
  8. Coplan, R. J., Reichel, M. & Rowan, K.(2009). Exploring the associations between maternal personality, child temperament, and parenting: A focus on emotions. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 241-246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.10.011
  9. Doh, H. & Falbo, T.(1999). Social competence, maternal attentiveness, and overprotectiveness: Only children in Korea. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 23, 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/016502599384044
  10. Doh, H.(1994). Social competence of kindergartners and sixth graders: Its relationships to parental attention, parental protectiveness, the children's sex, and their birth category. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Ewha Womans University, Seoul.
  11. Eysenck, H. J. & Eysenck, S. B. G.(1975). Manual of the Eysenck personality questionnaire. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
  12. Huh, T.(2008). The effects of temperament and mother's parenting attitude on child behavior problem. Unpublished master's thesis. Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul.
  13. Jeon, H. & Park, S.(1999). Childhood experience, personality, and marital satisfaction: Relationship to parenting behaviors. Korean Journal of Child Studies, 20(3), 153-169.
  14. Kim, K., Park, B. & Kim, Y.(2005). A study of intergenerational transmission of childhood maltreatment: A comparison of mothers of children with emotional disorder and mothers of normal children. The Journal of Play Therapy, 9(1), 23-37.
  15. Kim, M. & Jeon, G.(2003). The effect of antecedents on maternal parenting behaviors. Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association, 41(12), 207-228.
  16. Kim, M., Kim, Y. & Han, S.(2008). The effects of separation anxiety of mothers and young children, and mothers' overprotection on young children's peer competence. Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association, 46(7), 71-84.
  17. Kim, Y. & Kim, Y.(2002). The effect of children's temperament & parents' personality on parent-child interaction. J. of Human Ecology, 5, 123-140.
  18. Levy, D. M.(1931). Maternal overprotection and rejection. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, 25, 886-889.
  19. Lim, H. & Park, S.(1994). Mother's child rearing practices: Variables related to the first-born child. Korean Journal of Child Studies, 15(2), 153-168.
  20. Lim, H.(1994). Mother's child rearing practices on the firstborn. Unpublished master's thesis. Ewha Womans University, Seoul.
  21. Lindhout, I., Markus, M., Hoogendijk, T., Borst, S., Maingay, R., Spinhoven, P., van Dyck, R. & Boer, F. (2006). Childrearing style of anxiety-disordered parents. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 37, 89-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-006-0022-9
  22. Mahler, M. S., Pine, F. & Bergman, A.(1975). The psychological birth of the human infant. N.Y.: Basic Books.
  23. McClelland, G. H. & Judd, C. M.(1993). Statistical difficulties of detecting interactions and moderator effects. Psychological Bulletin, 114, 376-390. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.114.2.376
  24. Metsapelto, R-L. & Pulkkinen, L.(2003). Personality traits and parenting: Neuroticism, extraversion, and openness to experience as discriminative factors. European Journal of Personality, 17, 59-78. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.468
  25. Moon, Y. & Kim, D.(2001). Association between the perceived parenting and problem behaviors in Korean male adolescents. Korean J Child & Adol Psychiatr, 12(2), 237-244.
  26. Park, A.(1998). A note on the over-protection for childrearing in its developmental psychological aspects. The Korean Journal of the Human Development, 5(1), 53-73.
  27. Park, S. & Lee, S.(1990). A preliminary study for the standardization of the Korean maternal behavior inventory. Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association, 28(1), 141-156.
  28. Park, S. & Rubin, K. H.(2008). Toddler's gender and temperament by maternal stress as predictors of mothers' parenting behavior. Korean Journal of Child Studies, 29(2), 109-124.
  29. Park, S., Jun, C. & Han, S.(1996). Mother's parenting as related to child's temperament, mother's temperament, and mother's parenting stress. Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association, 34(4), 203-215.
  30. Paterson, G. & Sanson, A.(1999). The association of behavioural adjustment to temperament, parenting and family characteristics among 5-year-old children. Social Development, 8, 293-309.
  31. Paulussen-Hoogeboom, M. C., Stams, G. J. J. M., Hermanns, J. M. A. & Peetsma, T. T. D.(2007). Child negative emotionality and parenting from infancy to preschool: A meta-analytic review. Developmental Psychology, 43, 438-453. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.43.2.438
  32. Rothbart, M. & Ahadi, S.(1994). Temperament and the development of personality. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 103, 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-843X.103.1.55
  33. Rubin, K. H. & Burgess, K.(2002). Parents of aggressive and withdrawn children. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 383-418). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
  34. Ruy, H. & Lee, S.(2007). Influences of sex, temperament, and maternal attitudes on children's maladjustment behavior. Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association, 45(6), 89-100.
  35. So, E.(2001). Maternal separation anxiety: The relations to mothers' characteristics, a child's initial temperament, and overprotective parenting. Unpublished master's thesis. Ewha Womans University, Seoul.
  36. Thomas, A. & Chess, S.(1977). Temperament and development. N.Y.: Brunner/Mazel.
  37. Thomasgard, M. & Metz, W. P.(1993). Parental overprotection revisited. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 24, 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02367260