Research Scholar, Nursing department, Baekseok University, 76, Munam-ro, Cheonan, Korea
*Corresponding Author: Shinhong Min Research Scholar, Nursing Department, Baekseok University, 76, Munam-ro, Cheonan, Korea Phone: +82-010-8800-9040 E-mail: shmin@bu.ac.kr
Online published on 27 February, 2018.
When a child enters elementary school, the mother takes on the role of a school parent along with the existing role as a parent and experiences various types of parenting stress.
This study is a descriptive research study to figure out the relation between parenting stress, parenting efficacy, and resilience in mothers with early school-age children. The subjects of the study were 206 mothers who had children in 1st grade at 2 elementary schools, who agreed to the purpose of the study. Data collected for the purpose of the study was analyzed using SPSS 18.0 statistical program.
The most common age group among the subjects was between 35 and 39 with 50.3%, and then it was in the order of 40–44, 30–34, and 45–49. In the subjects, parent life stress was 3.46 points and school parent role stress was 3.65 points. In the correlation between parenting stress, parenting efficacy, and resilience, parenting stress, parenting efficacy, and resilience had a negative correlation, and printing efficacy and resilience had a positive correlation.
Therefore the study aims to explore the relation between parenting stress, parenting efficacy, and resilience in mothers with early school-age children, and to provide basic data to find a plan to reduce parenting stress.
Children, Early school-age, Mother, Parenting efficacy, Parenting stress, Resilience
