아버지의 온정적 양육행동이 아동의 학업수행능력과 학교적응에 미치는 종단적 영향: 유아기 또래놀이행동의 매개효과

Abstract

Objectives: Children’s "Play" plays a central role in their development, and a father’s participation inraising children is as important as a mother's. This study examined the extent to which fathers’parenting behavior with their preschool children influenced their academic achievement and schooladjustment through children’s’ peer play behavior during the period of transition to elementary school. Methods: Using the Panel Study of Korean Children (PSKC), the present study included data on atotal of 1,526 children and their father from 2013 (Time 6) to 2015 (Time 8). The hypothesized modelwas analyzed using structural equation modeling in Mplus 7.31. Results: Findings indicated that warmth of father’s parenting behavior at age five positively influencedchildren’s peer play behavior at age six, increasing interaction and reducing disconnection. It alsoinfluenced children’s school adjustment at age seven. Results indicated that the effects of the role offather’s warm parenting behavior on children’s academic achievement and school adjustment weremediated through peer play behavior. These results suggest the importance of father’s warm parentingbehavior and children’s peer play behavior for their academic achievement and school adjustment duringthe transition to elementary school. Conclusion: These findings support the proposition that fostering a father’s parental warmth andencouraging children’s peer play would be a fruitful avenue to promote academic achievement andschool adjustment during the transition to elementary school. In other words, this study explains thecontinuity of development from infancy to early school age and verifies that fathers’ parental warmthand children’s peer play in infancy are not limited to infancy through a series of long-termdevelopmental pathways. Therefore, to improve school adaptation that affects social and cognitivedevelopment after entering elementary school, measures should be presented to support children’splay, and to support fathers’ warm parenting behavior in the future.