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Conceptualization and Analysis of Filial piety of Adolescents as Perceived by their Parents: With a specific focus on child-rearing efficacy and family life-satisfaction levels

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박영신,김의철,한기혜

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pp. 203~241 / 2009 Vol.16 No.3

Abstract

This study examines the conception of filial piety among parents of children and adolescents and provides a conceptualization of their perceptions of these notions. In order to examine the developmental trajectory, parents of elementary, middle and high school children and their perceptions of filial piety and also sex differences were examined. Moreover, the influences of filial piety and socio-economic status on child-rearing efficacy and family life-satisfaction were analyzed. A total 1,428 parents (690 fathers and 738 mothers) of elementary, middle, and high school children (489, 425, 514 respectively) completed an open-ended and structured questionnaire developed by the present researchers. The results were as follows. First, parents of elementary school children perceived obedience as the best indicator of filial piety and parents of high school children perceived diligence in academic study as the best indicator of filial piety. Parents of elementary, middle and high school children perceived disobedience as most running counter to filial behavior. Mothers perceived assisting in household chores as the best indicator of filial behavior and fathers perceived caring and obedience as the best indicator of filial behavior. All parents believed that observance of filial behavior as an essential duty of all human beings. Parents reported diverse verbal expressions of filial piety. When their children failed to live up to their standards of filial behavior, parents reported feeling disappointed. Second, in path analysis, children\'s filial behavior had a direct influence on the respondents\' family life-satisfaction, and anindirect influence mediated by child-rearing efficacy. Child rearing efficacy had the greatest impact on family life-satisfaction, followed by children\'s filial behavior and then by the socio-economic status for both the mothers and fathers of adolescents.Key words : Filial piety, indigenous psychology, child-rearing efficacy, family life-satisfaction, obedience, diligence to study, interpersonal duty, parent-child relationship.

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