The purpose of this study was to identify effects of father's personality and discipline style on social behavior of young children. Subjects of this study were 305 fathers of young children aged 3-5 years old attending to 10 kindergartens and child c...
The purpose of this study was to identify effects of father's personality and discipline style on social behavior of young children. Subjects of this study were 305 fathers of young children aged 3-5 years old attending to 10 kindergartens and child care centers in Cheongju city. Data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, Cronbach's α, t-test, Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient using the SPSS 12.0 program, and path analysis was done through using AMOS 7.0. program. The results of this study were as follows: First, father's personality didn't have a direct effect on young children's positive social behavior, while openness as father's personality had a direct effect on negative one. Second, father's oppressive corporal punishment as discipline style had a direct effect on young children's positive and negative social behavior as well as did it through father's personality characteristics. Third, father's logical explanation as discipline style was directly influenced by openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness of personality. Also, father's logical explanation did not mediate young children's social behavior. Fourth, father's oppressive corporal punishment as discipline style was influenced by neuroticism, openness, and extroversion as father's personality. Remarkably, agreeableness as father's personality had the most important effect on father's oppressive corporal punishment.