어머니의 코칭역량과 유아의 자율성이 의도적 통제에 미치는 영향

Effects of Mothers Coaching Competence and Children s Autonomy on Effortful Control

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of mothers’ coaching competence on children’s effortful control and to find out whether children’s autonomy affects the relationship between mothers’ coaching competence and children’s effortful control. For this, we conducted a self-report questionnaire on the mothers of 4-5 -year-old children attending 18 childcare centers in Chungcheongbuk-do. The data collected in this research were analyzed with T-test, variance analysis, Scheffé post-test, regression analysis, and correlation using SPSS 21.0. Mothers’ coaching competence had a direct effect on attention during effortful control, suppression control and attention change and children’s autonomy indirectly influences between the mothers’ coaching competence and effortful control. The results of this study can be used as basic data for the development of parent coaching programs to improve mothers’ coaching competence and as useful data to base on parent education. Also, it suggests that the mothers perform their coaching skills smoothly and it needs measures to develop the child’s effortful control ability.