Peer-reviewed article
The Effects of Mother's Nurturing Attitude through Social Support: Nurturing Efficacy as a Mediator
Kab-Soon Kim, Kab-Soon Kim, Jeong-Wha Kim ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This study examined how social support affects mothers' attitudes towards nurturing their young children in South Korea. The research surveyed 173 mothers of children in day care centers in Seoul and Gyeong-gi Province. The findings show that social support influences mothers' nurturing attitudes, which in turn affects their sense of efficacy in the parenting role. The study highlights the importance of both maternal education and social support systems for positive child development.
Key points
- Social support, nurturing attitude, and nurturing efficacy showed significant correlations with each subfactor
- Controlled and rejecting nurturing attitudes showed no significant correlation with other variables
- Social support affects mothers' nurturing attitude, which mediates the development of nurturing efficacy
- The study emphasizes the importance of maternal nurturing education and social support for mothers of young children
Limitations
This is a cross-sectional survey with no control group, so causation cannot be definitively established. The study was limited to mothers in day care centers in two South Korean provinces, which may not represent all mothers or other cultural contexts.
Abstract
This study examines the mediating effect of nurturing efficacy in relation to social support and nurturing attitude among child's mothers who send their children to a day care center. A survey was conducted on 173 mothers that have children in day care centers currently in Seoul and Gyeong-gi Province, South Korea. Social support, nurturing attitude, and nurturing efficacy were surveyed as a study tool and the survey data was analyzed with correlation analysis and regression analysis using SPSS 23.0. The results of the study are as follows. First, social support, nurturing attitude, and nurturing efficacy had static correlation with each subfactor. However, the controlled, rejected nurturing attitude, which is an opposite concept of positive nurturing, had a generally significant non-correlation with the other variables. Second, social support affected mothers' nurturing attitude, which leads to mothers' nurturing efficacy as one of the mediating variables. Therefore, this study indicated the understanding of not only mother's nurturing attitude but also perceiving the importance of mother's nurturing education and social support.
Findings the Hub has extracted
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- Intervention
- Social support provision to mothers
- Population
- 173 mothers with children in day care centers in Seoul and Gyeong-gi Province, South Korea
Key finding
Social support affected mothers' nurturing attitude