The Effects of Cognitive Improvement on Child-Rearing Attitudes and Stress Levels

Abstract

This research was to investigate how child-rearing attitudes and stress levels change after a self-training program to improve "cognition of child-rearing." A 2-week self-training exercise for 230 mothers who had preschool children and elementary school children was comprised of five ways of altering their ways of scolding or correcting their children and the five ways to reflect and improve on their inner state of being. The results revealed that after the process of self-training, the mothers improved their cognition of child-rearing practices, learned to recognize and mitigate their impulsive behaviors and significantly reduced their stress levels while dealing with their children. These results indicate that a self-training for child-rearing improves a mothers' cognitive competence and such improve influences mother-child relationship.