어머니의 심리적 특성, 일상생활 스트레스, 배우자 및 사회적 지지가 유아기 어머니의 양육스트레스에 미치는 영향

Mother’s Psychological Characteristics, Daily Hassles, Spousal and Social-Support Associated with Parenting Stress of Young Children

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative importance of daily hassles, mother’s psychological characteristics such as neuroticism and extroversion, spousal and social-support associated with parenting stress of young children. Subjects of this study were consisted of 285 mothers drawn from three preschools in Cheong-Ju city. The pilot study was done to examine the applicability of survey instrument. Data were analysed by SPSS WIN with the method of frequency, percentage, t-test, F-test, Duncan post-hoc test, Pearson Correlation, and multiple regression. The results of this study were as follows. First, mothers having a job had more daily hassles than mothers without a job. Mothers who were old had more neurotic symptoms than young ones. Also, mothers having a higher education level and working more hours showed more spousal support than others. Second, daily hassles, neurotic characteristic, extroversive characteristic, and spousal support were significant variables predicting maternal incompetence parenting stress. More especially spousal support was the most affective factor to predict incompetence parenting stress. Third, daily hassles was the only factor explaining role-restriction parenting stress. Forth, social-network support, extroversive characteristic of mothers, and spousal support had relatively effect on social-isolation parenting stress. Fifth, health-problem parenting stress were significantly predicted by daily hassles and neurotic characteristic of mothers. Sixth, all factors that were selected to find out the relevance with mother’s parenting stress had effect on mother’s parenting stress. Daily hassles was the most predicting factor for mother’s parenting stress followed by spousal support, neurotic characteristic of mothers, social-support, and characteristic of mothers.