Parental Goals and Parenting Practices of Upper-Middle-Class Korean Mothers with Preschool Children

Autor/inn/en	Park, Ju-Hee; Kwon, Young In
Titel	Parental Goals and Parenting Practices of Upper-Middle-Class Korean Mothers with Preschool Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Childhood Research, 7 (2009) 1, S.58-75 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-718X
DOI	10.1177/1476718X08098354
Schlagwörter	Middle Class; Mothers; Korean Culture; Parenting Styles; Child Rearing; Preschool Children; Parent Child Relationship; Psychological Patterns; Parenting Skills; Cultural Influences; Goal Orientation; Interviews; Social Development; Child Development; Academic Achievement; Parent Influence; South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittelschicht; Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Soziale Entwicklung; Kindesentwicklung; Schulleistung; Korea; Republik
Abstract	In order to understand how mothers develop their parenting styles under rapidly changing cultural contexts, this study examines and compares Korean upper-middle-class mothers' parental goals and real parenting practices as they reported. For this purpose, face-to-face in-depth interviews with 20 Korean mothers were conducted. By analyzing the data, we found that Korean mothers' parenting beliefs focused on "raising a child with good social and emotional characteristics", while their reported practices mainly concentrated on children's academic achievements. Korean mothers failed to connect their beliefs and behaviors because they tended to compare their parenting practices with those of other mothers. Although the mothers followed expectations from current Korean society, they constantly had to deal with guilty and uncomfortable feelings of not corresponding with their personal parental beliefs and goals. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10