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The Mediating Effects of Family Resilience in the Relationships between Marital Perspective-taking Ability, and the Managing Responses of Young Children's

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장윤희,문혁준

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pp. 19~35 / 2011 Vol.18 No.3

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between marital perspective-taking ability, familyresilience and the managing responses of young children. This study was also hoped to provide a basis for theanalysis of the mediating effects of family resilience in the relationships between marital perspective-takingability and the managing responses of, young children. 284 mothers of preschoolers attending privatekindergartens or day care centers in Seoul or Incheon city participated in the research to measure maritalperspective-taking ability, family resilience and the managing responses of young children, and the collected datawere 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) Thenegative managing responses of young children, according to marital perspective-taking abilities was also entirelymediated by family resilience. These results indicated that marital perspective-taking abilities influence familyresilience in a nuclear family structure and it results in indirectly affects the managing responses of youngchildren. This study is a significant contribution to knowledge since it was focused on ordinary family groups toprove the mediating effect of family resilience in the relationships between marital perspective-taking ability, andnegative and positive managing responses on the part of young children rather than conducting the research onfamilies with particular characters as has been done in past studies. Theses results should be fundamental toinspire managing responses on the part of young children by reinforcing a family spirit in the somewhat diversefamily models found in contemporary Korean society.

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