Fathers’ Parenting Attitudes Predicting Girls’ Levels of Competence: Gender-Role Stereotypes and Internal Motivation as Mediators
AUTHOR : 하수정,박성연
INFORMATION : page. 133~149 / 2011 Vol.18 No.1
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate the paths in which fathers’ parenting attitudes influence their daughters’ competence levels through girls’ gender-role stereotypes and internal motivation. Data were collected via questionnaires from 314 Korean elementary school girls (M age=10.90 yrs.) and their school grades. The results of this study were as follows: Perceived fathers’ positive parenting attitudes such as affection, autonomy, achievement-encouraging, and reasoning were found to indirectly influence the girls’ competence through girls’ gender-role stereotypes and internal motivation. The current study confirms the importance of a fathers’ parenting as a means of developing their daughters’ competence such as academic achievement, leadership and assertive behavior. These findings also suggest that fathers’ attitudes oriented to affection, autonomy, achievement and reasoning mostly encourage their daughters to become more competent by facilitating their daughters’ flexible gender-role stereotypes and increasing their levels of
motivation
Key words : Parenting Attitudes, Competence, Gender-role stereotypes, Internal motivation