| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 兒童與家庭學系碩士班 === 97 === The study aims at understanding the current status of children’s performance among the 5th and 6th graders at elementary schools (including academic, talents and behavior performances), children’s supportive behaviors and parental efficacy, in addition to discussing the relation among demographic variables (parents’ gender, children’s gender, parents’ education level, and average monthly family income) in children’s performance, children’s supportive behavior and parental efficacy. The study employs “Children’s Academic Performance Scale,” “Children’s Talent Performance Scale,” “Children’s Behavior Performance Scale,” “Children’s Supportive Behavior Scale,” and “Parental Efficacy Scale” as study tools to conduct survey on the parents of 5th and 6th graders from the elementary schools Taipei County. A total of 667 valid samples were used. The survey data were then analyzed using SPSS, descriptive statistics, t-test, One Way ANOVA, Pearson Product Moment Correlation, and Multiple Regression, reaching the following study conclusion:
1. Children’s supportive behaviors include two factors in sensibility and intimacy vs. opposition and boycott. On the other hand, children’s behavior performance usually contains two factors in morality and norms vs. interpersonal emotions.
2. Parents who believe their children’s academic performance and talent performance are ranked at the medium level or above tend to have more positive views on their children’s morality and norms in the aspects of behavior performance and interpersonal emotions. With respect to the aspect in supportive behavior, few children have shown opposition and boycotts against their parents while more children have sensibility and intimacy behaviors; consequently parents are quite confident in self- parental efficacy.
3. Among the different demographic variables, father’s parental efficacy does not show significant difference from mother’s parental efficacy. Parents with daughter in comparison with parents with sons do not show significant difference either. Parent’s education attainment with college (vocational school) level will have higher parental efficacy than the parents attaining junior-high school education. Moreover, parents with graduate school education will have higher significance than parents attaining junior-high or senior-high school education. The average monthly family income is 100,000, in which parents with monthly family income less than 180,000 reveal a higher significance in parental efficacy than parents with monthly family income of less than 30,000, which is likewise significantly higher than parents with monthly family income over 30,000 but less than 50,000 in parental efficacy terms.
4. The dimensions for children behavior and children supportive behavior show a significant correlation. In addition to the opposition and boycott from the children to parents and the negative correlation of parental efficacy, the supportive behavior for children who show sensibility and intimacy for their parents and other dimension in children behavior variables have both revealed significantly positive correlation in parental efficacy.
5. The average monthly family income, children talent performance, children’s morality and norms, interpersonal emotions and sensible and intimacy are the critical factors for parents to predict parental efficacy; whereas the academic performance at the elementary school stage becomes less significant with respect to a predictable factor for parental efficacy. It is observed that children’s sensible intimacy accounts for the only explainable factor for father’s parental efficacy; while children’s talent performance, behavior performance and sensitivity and intimacy are accounted for the only explainable factors to mother’s parental efficacy. Children’s talent performance, morality and norms, in addition to sensibility and intimacy, are accounted for the predictable factors on parental efficacy for parents with sons; whereas the average monthly family income, interpersonal emotions and sensible and intimacy, are accounted for the explainable variables in parental efficacy for parents with daughters
6. Different parent-child pairs (father and son, father and daughter, mother and son, mother and daughter) will result in different predictable factors in parental efficacy. In sum, children’s supportive behavior in sensibility and intimacy is generally accounted for the most significant predictable factor in parental efficacy.
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