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The Child-rearing Behaviors of Two Generations of Grandmothers and Mothers

  The purpose of this study was to compare with the grandmothers" and mothers" child-rearing behaviors in respect of differences and correlation of two generations. The subjects were 340 mothers with young children from 3 to 6 years old living in the city of Cheongju and Daejeon. The structured questionnaires from mothers were collected in July 2004. The statistical analyses were done in using SPSSWIN 10.0: frequencies, percentages, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson"s correlation analyses.   The results of this study were as follows.   1. Mothers" child-rearing behaviors given by general background were different in factor of number of children and having their jobs. The mother of one child was higher than those who have two and three children in respect of their loving children and their concerns about children. The mothers who had their jobs were higher than those who didn"t have any jobs in respect of discipline of children.   2. There were differences between grandmothers and mothers in respect to their child-rearing behaviors. Mothers with young children were higher than grandmothers in respect to the areas of discipline, loving, basic living attitudes and concerns of child-rearing behaviors.   3. Grandmothers" and mothers" child-rearing behaviors showed high correlations, between them. The higher perception about the 4 areas of child-rearing behaviors of grandmothers, the higher perception of mothers were.