• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.417-442
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• 2009

This study investigated whether there are differences in father's involvement in child-rearing and role performance and on mother's parenting stress after fathers' participating in the father's program at kindergarten. Subjects were parents of children enrolled in H kindergarten, 38 fathers (18 experimental group, 20 control groups) and 38 mothers (wives of the experimental and control group fathers). Data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, and t-test on the pre-score and post-score. Findings were that : father's participant program at kindergarten affected father's involvement in child-rearing and role performance, and mother's parenting stress reduction : the experimental group father's involvement in child-rearing and role performance was improved more than the control group. Experimental group mothers' parenting stress than that of the control group.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.413-422
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• 2004

Purpose: This study was conducted to describe the perception of parental role held by university students and to examine difference in perception of parental role according to student characteristics. Method: The participant were 338 university student in Gangreung city. The instrument was developed by researcher and consisted of 4 subcategories ; child rearing environment, parental sensitivity, growth and development of infant, and physical care. Data were collected from May 10 to June 1 in 2004 and were analyzed using SPSS Win 10.0 program. Result: The university students' perception of total parental role had a mean item score of 4.02, with 4.12 for parental sensitivity, 4.00 for child rearing environment, 4.00 for physical care and 3.95 for growth and development. There were significant differences in perception of parental role according to sex(t=-5.55, p=.00), grade(F=13.12, p=.00), type of college(F=28.34, p=.00), father's age(F=5.01, p=.00), father's education(F=5.01, p=.00), mother's education(F=3.33, p=.03) student's marriage plan(t=2.37, p=.01) main caretaker(F=9.53, p=.00) person who lived with student in childhood(F=3.62, p=.01) and student's perception of the need for education for parental role(t=3.74, p=.00). Conclusion: The impact of childhood experience has lifelong significance on subsequent health and development. Especially, the experience of childhood is highly affected by the quality of parental role. It is important to identify university student's perception of parental role as pre-parent preparation for parenting. Therefore, pre-parent education program are necessary.

• Korean Parent-Child Health Journal
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.51-59
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing health promoting behavior of school-aged children on community child center. Methods: Participant were 207 elementary school student located in Mokpo. For data analysis descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA pearson correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression were used with SPSS/WIN ver 18.0 program. Results: The mean score for health promoting behavior was below the lower point at $3.39{\pm}0.61$. There were significant differences in health promoting behavior according to gender (t=9.41, p=.002), father's job (F=2.28, p=.048), perceived health status (F=5.70, p=.001), There were significant correlations between health promoting behavior and self-esteem (r=.655, p=.001), self-efficacy (r=.530, p=.001). The explanatory power of these variables accounted for 47.1% of health promoting behavior. The most significant variable was self-esteem (t=7.60, p=.001) and explained 42.8%. Conclusion: The finding indicate that self-esteem of children on community child center are important variables for health promoting behavior. This result suggests that interventions focusing on self-esteem, on enhance health promoting behavior.