Abstract

The present study was designed to examine mother's individual and perceived other Korean patents' parenting beliefs, parenting behavior and accomplishment-oriented pressure in relation to their children's school stage. Data were collected from 423 mothers who had children attending primary, middle, high school or university. The results indicated that there were no significant differences in individual and perceived social parenting beliefs among children's school stages However, perceived social parenting beliefs were higher than mother's individual ones, meaning that mothers perceived other Korean mothers as oriented more toward intellectual achievement than personality education, more toward maturation than environment, and more toward individual than group. Mother's parenting behavior varied largely at the point of their children's college entrance. Mother's children were over-protected, rationally guided, and pressed for school achievement until they graduated from high school. Finally, mother's individual parenting beliefs were associated somewhat strongly with their parenting behavior. These findings were discussed in the educational contexts of Korean society.