The Effects of Father’s Parenting Attitude and Discipline on the Child’s Self-Regulation Ability.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship and relative influence between the father’s parenting attitude, discipline method, and the child’s self-regulatory ability. this study surveyed 211 children and their fathers living in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, and Busan. The collected data were analyzed by moment correlation analysis and stepwise multiple regression analysis using the SPSS 21.0 program. The results of the study are as follows: First, a correlation was found between the father’s controlling parenting attitude and the child’s self-regulatory ability. However, no significant correlation was found between the father’s discipline method and the child’s self-regulatory ability. Second, when examining the relative influence of the father’s parenting attitude and discipline method on the child’s self-regulatory ability, the father’s controlling parenting attitude was found to be a strong positive predictor of the overall self-regulatory ability and sub-factors of the child, while the father’s rejecting parenting attitude was a negative predictor. Among the sub-factors of self-regulatory ability, self-control and attention were positively predicted by the father’s controlling parenting attitude. In conclusion, this study is significant in that it analyzes the father-related factors influencing the child’s self-regulatory ability, and suggests that the findings can be used as basic data for developing strategies to improve the father’s parenting attitude to enhance the child’s self-regulatory ability.