The Study on the Difficult and Easy Children's Responses and Parenting Behaviors during Mother–Child Interaction

• Main Authors: Huang Yu-Ching, 黃玉菁
• Other Authors: Wang Pei-Ling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30004042091071100967

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 兒童發展碩士學位學程 === 99 === The objective of this study is to explore the relationship of difficult and easy children’s responses, parenting behaviors. There were 22 pairs of difficult children and 23 pairs of easy children, and their mothers in this research. The researcher screened difficult and easy children according to the rearing perception of the mothers and the results of the temperament questionnaires. Research method is used to clean-up task, observed the difficult and easy children’s responses, parenting behaviors during mother–child interaction. The data was analyzed by t-test and Pearson product–moment correlation. The results are shown in the follows: 1. The difficult children’s noncompliance: neglect, negotiation and refusal behaviors more than the easy children’s. 2. The difficult children’s maternal use of explanations/demonstrations behaviors less than the easy children’s maternal; the difficult children’s maternal use of direct commands, threats/reprimands and physical interventions behaviors more than the easy children’s maternal. 3. There were significant positive correlations between children’s neglect and their maternal use of bargains and physical interventions behaviors; and there were significant positive correlations between difficult children’s defiant and their maternal use of threats/reprimands behaviors; there were significant negative correlations between easy children’s committed compliance and their maternal use of bargains and physical interventions behaviors. According to the result of the research, suggested that future research can be transferred to the laboratory experimental conditions, and provide larger toys to observe the difficult children –mother interaction, or the impacts of children's gender, age and mother's characteristics may be worth discussing.