The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship among child rearing attitudes, self-concept and peer relationships longitudinally. In order to define the causal relation among them, linear structural relation analyses were performed. The anal...
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship among child rearing attitudes, self-concept and peer relationships longitudinally. In order to define the causal relation among them, linear structural relation analyses were performed. The analyses were separated by sex with respect to the result of previous studies. The study used the data set of the project, Longitudinal Study of Korean Children which Korean Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences has been carrying out since 1975 to date. In the present study, it was assumed that the time lag characteristics of the longitudinal data was adequate to explore the relationships among the research variales. The results of this study were as follows : mother`s child rearing attitudes directly influenced the peer relationships of their children. But in the case of boys, self-concept did not significantly influence peer relationships. In the case of girl, child rearing attitude did not significantly influence their children`s self-concept. Thus self-concept did not appeare to mediate between child rearing attitudes and peer relationships.