주말가족여가 프로그램과 부모의 양육태도, 부모-자녀 의사소통 및 부모의 만족도

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to improve the affects and parental satisfaction level in parents’ nurturing behavior and parent-child communication by developing and operating a weekend family leisure program, which considers young children’s developmental level and focuses on various experiential activities. The research subjects are 40 parents from public and private preschools in “B” City. Of the 40, 20 parents who requested weekend family leisure program were selected as the experimental group and the other 20 who did not request were selected as the control group. The experimental group had weekend family leisure program every Saturday for 20 weeks. The location of the family participate program changed periodically between home and preschool. The control group was informed of the in-home weekend family program. The tools used for the research were: Lee Won-Young’s (1983) translated version of Schaefer’s (1959) Maternal Behavior Research Instrument (MBRI) for parents’ nurturing behavior, Barnes and Olson’s (1982) PAC (Parents-Adolescent Communication) and questionnaire translated by Kim Ji-Young’s (1990) for parent-child communication, and Kim Min-Jung’s (2007) survey was revised and supplemented to better serve the purpose of the research for parents’ satisfaction level on the weekend family leisure program. Gathered data were processed by SPSS 15.0 for statistical analysis. In order to find the change in parents’ nurturing behavior and parent-child communication skill, the method of data analysis consisted of pre-test and post-test, mean and deviation, t-test. The research results are: First, the weekend family leisure program showed a positive affect on parents’ nurturing behavior. Second, the weekend family leisure program showed a positive affect on parent-child communication skills. Third, the parental satisfaction level regarding the weekend family leisure program showed positive affect.