| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 兒童與家庭學系碩士班 === 104 === Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to understand the cognitive reasoning of mothers and their ways to respond to children's aggressive behavior. Also, to understand the reasons that affect the responses of them. This study invited 8 Mothers in Macau, each one of them has at least one child between 2 to 6 years old. According to the interviews, we have several findings in following paragraph:
I. The cognitive reasoning of mothers to children's aggressive behavior.
Mothers use children's behavior and degree of physical injury they made to judge aggressive behavior. They divide aggressive behaviors into physical, verbal and materially attack. They seldom focus on behavior that attacks relationships. Behavior that mothers can't endure are persistent, obvious or serious physical harm, with targets to elders or parents, and behavior that are on purposes. From their perspective, the reasons why children attack are congenital. Including children's gender, personality and restrictions of their development. Observational learning is another factor that affect behavior.
II. The coping strategies of mothers to children's aggressive behavior.
Ways that mothers response to children's aggressive behavior including: observe and judge if they should interfere or not, advice children that they should not have aggressive behavior, ask children to apologize or punish them directly. There are also mothers who use corporal punishment depends on different frequency, purpose, degree of physical injury, target person they attacked, environment they are in and even disobey occurred while children have aggressive behavior.
III. Factors that affect responses of mothers toward children's aggressive behavior .
Followings are factors that affect responses of mothers toward children's aggressive behavior: Mother's personal reasons, mother's educational faith to children, mother's own efficacy, mother's tolerance to children's aggressive behavior and mother's personality. Family, situation and environment also have influence on mother's response.
At last, this study will give advice according to the result of study. To offer a reference to teachers, parents and following researchers, and offer a direction for studies in the future.
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