2007 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 106-117
The purpose of this study was to define “Parenting Skills” as action for constructing and maintaining a good relationship between mothers and children, and was to investigate how often mothers use “Parenting Skills” in their daily lives and how a relationship between “Parenting Skills” and self-esteem for children exists. Firstly, in order to construct “Parenting Skills Scale”, skill items were collected from skill descriptions provided by 98 mothers. A 30-item: every 10-item of morality skills, understanding–interest skills, and self-esteem skills, was selected by KJ-method. 9 graduate students and 1 psychologist examined the validity of content, and preliminary study was conducted by 19 mothers to select the items included in the scale. As a result, a 30-item Parenting Skills Scale was developed.
Then, a questionnaire of the 30 chosen items was answered by 2239 pairs of mothers and children. Factor analysis produces 3 subscales: a 9-item of morality skills, a 8-item of self-esteem skills, and a 6-item of understanding–interest skills. Mothers used Parenting Skills and self-esteem skills for 1 grade more than 2 grade, and understanding–interest skills for 1 grade more than 2 grade and 3 grade. As regards self-esteem for children, 1 grade more than 2 grade and 3 grade showed high points of selfesteem scale. Mothers with high self-esteem had high Parenting Skills. As regards the relationship between mothers' parenting skills of junior high school students and self-esteem of children, mothers with high Parenting Skills had children having high self-esteem: especially, this relationship showed high points among 1 grade rather than 2 grade and 3 grade.
