Abstract

This study was performed to identify the prediction of childrearing behavior from maternal perception of children's personality and mothers' satisfaction with them The subjects were 1060 mothers with children of 5th grade in elementary schools located in Seoul, Suwon, Taejon, and Taegu city. The results were as follows: Mothers' rejection-restriction was the most highly explained by the perception of children's personality and maternal satisfaction with them Warmth-acceptance was the next highly explained childrearing behavior, and permissiveness-nonintervention was weakly explained. Visible differences could not be found between the degree of contribution of the perceived personality and of the satisfaction with them However, difference of explanation pattern was found. rejection-restriction was mainly explained by mothers' satisfaction with children's personality and warmth-acceptance was mainly explained by the perception of children's personality.