Investigation on Causal Relationships Between Home Environment, Children's Self-evaluation and Learned Helplessness

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1998;36(4):121-136.

논문 : 가정환경 , 아동의 자아 평가와 학습된 무력감간의 인과관계

최보가

경북대학교 생활과학대학 아동가족학과

Investigation on Causal Relationships Between Home Environment, Children's Self-evaluation and Learned Helplessness

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the causal resationships between children's learned helplessness, self-evaluation and the home environment which included the family's socio-economic status, parent's achieving pressure and maternal child rearing behavior. The results were as follows; The socio-economic status of home influenced on the parent's achieving pressure, maternal child rearing behavior and children's self-evaluation, but didn't influence children's learned helplessness. Parent's achieving pressure had a negative correlation with the maternal child rearing behavior and influenced children's learned helplessness, but did not influence children's self-evaluation. Maternal child rearing behavior influenced children's self-evaluation, but did not influence children's self-evaluation. Maternal child rearing behavior influenced children's self-evaluation, but did not influence children's learned helplessness directly. Children's self-evaluation had the strongest direct impact on children's learned helplessness. This was found to be a mediating factor between home environmental factor and children's learned helplessness.