미취학 자녀를 둔 아버지의 양육참여에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구

Predictors of Child-rearing Involvement of Fathers with Young Children

The purpose of this study was to evaluate child-rearing involvement of fathers with child in early childhood and identify its determinants. This research was conducted with 1,546 data from the forth wave of the Panel Study of Korean Children(PSKC). Independent variables were sociodemographic data, working environment, self-efficacy, value of child, parenting stress and marital satisfaction. Data were analyzed by hierarchical multiple regression. As results, the significant factors affecting father s child-rearing involvement were religion, working hour, emotional value of child, parenting stress and marital satisfaction. Additionary, among those factors, parenting stress was the most powerful predictor for father s child-rearing involvement.