Mother's Involvement and Children's School Adjustment in Poor Families

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 2001;39(1):179-190.

저소득층 어머니의 자녀교육 참여와 자녀의 학교 적응

김영희

한경대학교 생활관리학과

Mother's Involvement and Children's School Adjustment in Poor Families

김영희

ABSTRACT

The purposes of this study are to explore mother's involvement in children's education and to examine its impacts on the school adjustment of poor family children. A total of 206 low-income mothers with a child attending elementary or middle school completed a structured questionnaire. Overall, the results show that the mothers tend to involve in their children's education to some degree. But the extent of maternal involvement is not uniform across the types of involvement. In order to analyze factors that affect the school adjustment which is measured as grades and attitudes toward school life, regression is perfomed. The mother-child relationship, the expectation for children's educational attainment and the involvement in school activities are found important in predicting the school adjustment of elementary school students. Also, it is found that the discipline including TV monitoring and the matemal expectation are positively associated with the school adjustment of middle school student.