Mother's Attention To The Mother's Attention To The Mother's Attention To The Various Variables
Yayıncı:
2. International Congress On New Horizons In Education and Social Sciences (ICES)
Disiplin:
Family,Child and School Psychology
Konu:
Family,Child and School Psychology
researchers studying on parenting intensely have begun to tending issues about how wives affect each other on practicing parenting.fathers are impressed by various factors on practising parenting; mothers' characteristics have an important place among these factors.in case of being supperted by wife, fathers comfortably display their paternal behaviors and it is seen that fathers' competencies does not differ from mothers' competencies.thus for fathers, in the matter of displaying parenting, getting involved in the life of their children, in brief, displaying father involvement, the concept of "maternal gatekeeping" confronts us as a concept to consider.even though the concept of maternal gatekeeping is evaluated differentially (discouragement, encouragement, control etc.Constitutively this concept imports mothers' behaviors which limit father-child interaction and accessibility of fathers for children.However, this concept has been studying for the last few years in our country and there is very few studies on this subject.Thus it is thought that, this study will contribute crucially to literature.The aim of this study is to evaluate maternal gatekeeping behavior of mothers who have children in primary school, to evaluate this behavior by reports of mothers own and to reveal whether maternal gatekeeping is differentiated in terms of various demographic variables.the sample of this study consists of 173 mothers who are married, have 7-11 age children in primary school and volunteers to join this study.demographic information form and maternal gatekeeping scale for primary school-mother form are used as a measurement tool in this study.measurement tools are transmitted to mothers by the students in a primary school (by getting permission from the school to apply the forms).Mesaurement tools are also collected in the same way.as a result of analyses it is revealed whether maternal gatekeeping is differentiated according to gender of child, educational status of mother, educational status of husband (father), economic situation of family.besides correlations between maternal gatekeeping and some variables such as age of mothers, age of fathers, age of children, total of education years of mothers, total of education years of fathers, number of children, total of marriage years, daily and weekly working hours of fathers, are examined.The results of the analyses are evaluated on the basis of other results in the literature.