자녀의 연령과 성에 따른 아버지 만족감 및 스트레스와 아버지 역할수행

Father's Role Satisfaction, Stress and Role Practices According to Children's Sex and Age

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between fathering role practices and father's psychological experiences such as stress and satisfaction with respect to the children's age and sex. The subjects were 1109 fathers whose oldest child was one to fifteen years old in Seoul and Taejon. Fathering Satisfaction Scale (Canfield, 1995), Parenting Stress Index(Abidin, 1990), and Fathering Practice Scale (Canfield, 1995) were revised for use in this research. The data were analysed by One-Way ANOVA. The results showed that fathers whose oldest child was son, the fathering role satisfaction had no difference among children groups, which were partitioned as 3 groups by children's age. On the other hand, father's stress showed differences in the father-children domain and the children domain. The showing love for children item in fathering role practices had some differences. For fathers whose oldest child was daughter, father's role satisfaction showed significant differences in global father's role satisfaction, communication satisfaction with children, and their own leadership satisfaction. And all domains of father's stress showed differences. The fathering role experiences also showed differences in child nurturant role, children understanding role, showing love for children, and child teaching role.