Mother's Verbal Control Modes and Children's Emotional Anxiety

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1999;37(5):49-60.

어머니의 언어통제유형과 아동의 정서적 불안과의 관계

오미경¹, 정현희²

신라대학교 가족, 아동학과¹, 동의대학교 아동가정환경과²

Mother's Verbal Control Modes and Children's Emotional Anxiety

오미경¹, 정현희²

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the relationship between mother's verbal confrol modes and children's emotional anxiety. The subjects of this study were 157boys and 144 girls attending elementary schools in Busan. Lee Kyung-Hee's(1993) questionnaire on mother's verval control modes, and Kang's(1986) questionnaire on emotional anxiety were used. The results were as follows: 1) There were significant differences in boys and girls about mother's imperative control mode. and children's emotional anxiety. Boys got the higher scores than the girls in mother's imperative control modes. But Girls got the higher score than the boys in children's emotional anxiety. 2) Only for boys, There were significant correlations between mother's imperative control mode and children's emotional anxiety. 3) Sex variabl and mother's imperative control mode variables were the predictor influencing on children's emotional anxiety. That is, girls shown higher emotional anxiety than boys. And children shown higher imperative control get higher emotional anxiety score.