The Mediating Effects of Family Resilience in the Relationships between Marital Perspective-taking Ability, and the Managing Responses of Young Children's
AUTHOR : 장윤희,문혁준
INFORMATION : page. 19~35 / 2011 Vol.18 No.3
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between marital perspective-taking ability, family
resilience and the managing responses of young children. This study was also hoped to provide a basis for the
analysis of the mediating effects of family resilience in the relationships between marital perspective-taking
ability and the managing responses of, young children. 284 mothers of preschoolers attending private
kindergartens or day care centers in Seoul or Incheon city participated in the research to measure marital
perspective-taking ability, family resilience and the managing responses of young children, and the collected data
were analyzed by SPSS 17.0. The results are as follows. (1) The managing responses of young children,
according to the marital perspective-taking abilities was completely mediated by family resilience. (2) The
negative managing responses of young children, according to marital perspective-taking abilities was also entirely
mediated by family resilience. These results indicated that marital perspective-taking abilities influence family
resilience in a nuclear family structure and it results in indirectly affects the managing responses of young
children. This study is a significant contribution to knowledge since it was focused on ordinary family groups to
prove the mediating effect of family resilience in the relationships between marital perspective-taking ability, and
negative and positive managing responses on the part of young children rather than conducting the research on
families with particular characters as has been done in past studies. Theses results should be fundamental to
inspire managing responses on the part of young children by reinforcing a family spirit in the somewhat diverse
family models found in contemporary Korean society.