AUTHOR : 정옥분,임정하,정순화,김경은,박연정
INFORMATION : page. 67~91 / 2008 Vol.15 No.4
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in university student\'s motives for future parenthood and the perception of parent roles according to gender and to examine the relationships between and among the issues of attachment to parents in childhood, motives for parenthood and the perceptions of parental roles. A scale measuring the perceptions of parenting/caregiving styles (Hazan & Shaver, 1987), motivations for parenthood (You & Chung, 2002), and perceptions of parental role responsibilities (Gilbert & Harris, 1983) was administered to 432 university students around the capital city. The data were analyzed using Cronbach\'s α tests, means, standard deviations, One-way MANOVAs, Multiple Discriminant Analyses, Pearson\'s Correlations, and Canonical Correlation Analyses. The results of this study were as follows: 1. There were significant differences by gender in motives for parenthood and the perceptions of parental roles. Male university students exhibited higher ‘traditional motives for parenthood’ than female university students. Female university students placed greater importance on \'providing for the physical environment\' and ‘promoting children\'s cognitive development’ in parental roles than male university students. 2. The university student\'s attachment levels to their parents were presumably associated with motives for parenthood and the perceptions of parental roles. Secure attachment to mothers, avoidant attachment to mothers, secure attachment to fathers, and avoidant attachment to fathers were powerful predictors of university student\'s motives for parenthood and their perceptions of parental roles. University students who remembered their parents as being warm had stronger motivations to become parents themselves and had positive perceptions of parental roles. On the other hand, those who perceived their parents as having been cold and rejecting in their childhood had weaker motivations to become parents themselves and had lower perceptions of parental roles such as ‘healing emotions’ and ‘teaching norms and social values’.
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