Children’s Negative Emotionality, Mothers’ Depression, and Parental Warmth in Predicting Children’s School Readiness in Low-Income Korean Families: The Role of Fathers’ Positive Involvement

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-396
Author(s):  
Seunghee Han ◽  
Kwangman Ko
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
School Readiness ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Parental Warmth ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Families

This study examined how the longitudinal associations among children’s negative emotionality, mothers’ depressive symptoms, parental warmth, and children’s school readiness and whether the associations vary as a function of fathers’ positive involvement in low-income South Korean families. Participants were 399 families including mothers (Mage = 32.54 years at Time 1), fathers (Mage = 35.23 years at Time 1), and children (Mage = 38.92 months at Time 1; 50.5% boys) in the Panel Study on Korean Children. Results revealed that children’s negative emotionality was indirectly associated with their school readiness three years later, through its association with mothers’ depressive symptoms and warmth. Mothers’ warmth mediated the association between mothers’ depressive symptoms and children’s school readiness, and fathers’ warmth mediated the association between fathers’ positive involvement and children’s school readiness. Our findings revealed the family processes underlying children’s school readiness development in low-income Korean family contexts. Our findings also provide information useful for efforts to detect family risks and to establish family policies to promote low-income children’s school readiness.

The impact of occupation according to income on depressive symptoms in South Korean individuals: Findings from the Korean Welfare Panel Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woorim Kim ◽  
Eun-Cheol Park ◽  
Tae-Hoon Lee ◽  
Yeong Jun Ju ◽  
Jaeyong Shin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Impact

Developmental Trajectories of Negative Peer Play in Preschool: Predictors and Outcomes1

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-479
Author(s):  
Suhyun Lee ◽  
Seri Kim ◽  
Kangyi Lee
Keyword(s):  
School Readiness ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Social And Emotional Development ◽  
Peer Play ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Social And Emotional

This study aims to identify age-related trajectories of preschoolers’ negative peer play, their predictors, and school-related outcomes. The participants were 1,547 children in the Panel Study on Korean Children and their teachers and parents. Using latent class growth analysis, we identified negative peer play trajectories of children between 4 and 6 years old. Analyses of variances were conducted to investigate whether children’s school readiness at 6 years old differed between the trajectories. Finally, multinomial logistic regressions were conducted to explore how teacher-child interactions influenced membership in the trajectories. Three developmental trajectories of play disruption were found: “Low” (64.3%), “Constant-higher” (34.3%), and “U-curve” (1.4%). In the case of play disconnection, four trajectories were found: “Low-increase” (57.6%), “Moderate-decrease” (26.5%), “Sharp-increase” (10.1%), and “High-decrease” (5.8%). The trajectories of play disruption were related to social and emotional development and approach to learning. The trajectories of play disconnection were related to all aspects of school readiness including social and emotional development, approach to learning, communication, and cognitive development. Teacher-child interactions that encourage children’s prosocial behaviors and positive peer interactions predicted likely membership in “Low-increase” play disconnection development. Also, teachers’ affectionate and sensitive qualities during the interaction with children predicted a “Low” trajectory of play disruption. Together, the results emphasized the protective power of positive teacher-child interactions in the development of preschool negative peer play. Based on the findings, policy implications are discussed with regard to teacher education.

Generating a Market in Children

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
Kimberly D. McKee
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Social Death ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Adoption ◽  
Korean Families ◽  
Unwed Motherhood ◽  
Adoption Agencies ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Women's Labor Force Participation

This chapter explores the transnational adoption industrial complex’s origins, paying careful attention to South Korea’s lack of support for unwed mothers and low-income families and the manufacturing of orphans by orphanages and adoption agencies. Korean families’ abilities to parent are curtailed by androcentric legislation concerning Korean citizenship, societal stigma against unwed motherhood, and limitations to women’s labor force participation. Orphanages and adoption agencies facilitate adoptees’ social death in the creation of new birthdates and names, among other natal details. Adoptees are also constructed as interchangeable with documented cases of adoptees being sent in place of another child. The chapter ends with a discussion of contemporary South Korean adoption policy and government overtures to adoptees as they return to the nation that previously cast them out.

scholarly journals The Influence of Service Usefulness of Community Children's Centers of Problem Solving Abilities Mediated by Self-Esteem for Low-Income Families

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S6) ◽  
pp. 275-279
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Practical Strategy ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this research was to examine the level of community child center help service influence to children in low-income with regards to their problem solving ability and to measure the relationship of its effect to the child’s self-esteem. This research used a nationwide surveyed data of community child center surveyed by Panel Study on Korean Children and was analyzed using a structural modeling. The survey was conducted in 2016 from July to August, survey questionnaires were sent to different community child center nationwide, the subjects were elementary 4th graders, and survey garnered 662 respondents. All this analysis were done using SPSS ver.21 and AMOS ver.21 program. The research results were the following. First, it shows that the higher the level of community child center help service to children in low-income the child’s problem solving ability goes high. Second, as the community child center help service increases the child’s self-esteem increases as well. Third, it shows that as self-esteem increases the problem solving ability goes high. Fourth, it also shows that the relationship of the effect between community child center help service to child in low-income and problem solving ability were statistically significant both total and indirect effect. Furthermore, it shows that relationship of community child center help service to child in low-income and problem solving ability has a mediating effect to child self-esteem. Base on this result, we propose that a better convergence of intervention and practical strategy must be impost to continue the betterment of child in low-income’s problem solving abilities.

scholarly journals Association Between Changes in Depressive Symptoms and Hazardous Drinking: Findings From the Korea Welfare Panel Study (2013–2018)

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung Hoon Jeong ◽  
Doo Woong Lee ◽  
Soo Hyun Kang ◽  
Seung Hoon Kim ◽  
Eun-Cheol Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Estimating Equation ◽  
Epidemiologic Studies ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Hazardous Drinking ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Longitudinal Association

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the longitudinal association between changes in depressive symptoms and hazardous drinking among South Korean adults.Participants/Methods: This study was conducted using a sample drawn from participants enrolled in the Korea Welfare Panel Study (KoWePS) from 2013 to 2018. Hazardous drinking was defined as a score of 11 points for men and seven points for women on the Korean version of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Depressive symptoms were evaluated using an 11-item version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. A generalized estimating equation model was used to analyze the association between changes in depressive symptoms and hazardous drinking.Results: Of the 12,878 people registered with KoWePS and without follow-up losses from 2013 to 2018, a total of 2,341 were included in this study, excluding those under the age of 19 and those with missing data. Persistent depressive symptoms (men, odds ratio [OR]: 2.20, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.48–3.21; women, OR: 2.64, 95% CI: 1.66–4.22) and the changes from non-depressive symptoms to depressive symptoms (men, adjusted OR: 2.18, 95% CI: 1.80–2.64; women, OR: 1.71, 95% CI: 1.27–2.29) increased the likelihood of hazardous drinking.Conclusions: Persistent depressive symptoms and changes from non-depressive to depressive symptoms are associated with increased prevalence of hazardous drinking. This suggests that an evaluation of the underlying mental illness or emotion should be made when counseling for abstaining from alcohol for chronic drinkers or the general public.

scholarly journals Effect of Family Functioning on Preschoolers’ School Readiness: Mediating Effects of Mothers’ Affective Parenting and Preschoolers’ Self-regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Suji Jung ◽  
Naya Choi
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
School Readiness ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Family System ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Social And Emotional

This study examined if the effect of family functioning on preschoolers’ school readiness can be mediated by mothers’ affective parenting and preschoolers’ self-regulation in the year before children enter elementary school. This study analyzed the 7<sup>th</sup> year data of panel study of Korean children collected by the Korean Institute of Child Care and Education. Statistical analysis included 1,513 pairs of 6-year-old children and mothers. Descriptive statistics analysis, correlation analysis, structural equation modeling, and bootstrapping analysis were conducted using SPSS 22 and Amos 20. The primary findings were as follows. First, the sub-factors of preschoolers’ school readiness composed of children’s social and emotional development, approach to learning, cognitive development and general knowledge, and communication were positively correlated with family functioning, mothers’ affective parenting, and preschoolers’ self-regulation. Second, the result of structural equation modeling showed that the indirect paths from family functioning to preschoolers’ school readiness through mothers’ affective parenting and preschoolers’ self-regulation were significant, while the direct path was insignificant. Third, bootstrapping analysis showed that mothers’ affective parenting and preschoolers’ self-regulation fully mediated the relationship between family functioning and preschoolers’ self-regulation. The findings provide the grounds for families and parents with preschool aged children to implement effective support practices to maintain a functional family system that can promote preschoolers’ school readiness.

The role of positive father involvement in the associations among stressful family life events, family functioning, and parental warmth in predicting children's sociobehavioral health in Korean families

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Seung-Hee Han
Keyword(s):  
Family Functioning ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Father Involvement ◽  
Externalizing Behaviors ◽  
Parental Warmth ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing Behaviors ◽  
Korean Families ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The study examined the longitudinal associations between stressful family life events at 4 years of age and children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors at 7 years of age, whether family functioning and parental warmth (i.e., mothers' warmth, fathers' warmth) successively mediated those associations, and whether the pattern of associations varied by positive father involvement in Korean families. Participants were 1,703 families including mothers (M age = 34 years at T1), fathers (M age = 37 years at T1), and children (M age = 51 months at T1) in the Panel Study on Korean Children. Results revealed that stressful family life events was positively associated with children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors, but not through family functioning and parental warmth. Family functioning and mothers' warmth successively mediated the association between positive father involvement and children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Positive father involvement moderated the association between stressful family life events and externalizing behaviors. The findings highlight that positive father involvement may play a protective role in children's externalizing behaviors when Korean families experience stressful situations.

Trajectories and determinants of depressive symptoms among Korean employed women with young children

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 425-434
Author(s):  
Taeyeon Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Parental Stress ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Maternal Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Employed Women ◽  
Nationally Representative

Background: This study examined the trajectory groups of maternal depressive symptoms of Korean employed women with young children and the association between trajectory group membership and personal, family, social and sociodemographic factors. Method: This study used Nagin’s semi-parametric, group-based modeling to analyze 2008 (Wave 1) to 2012 data (Wave 5) from the Panel Study on Korean Children, a nationally representative sample of children. Results: Four distinct trajectory groups were identified, namely, a non-depressive symptoms group, increasing subclinical depressive symptoms group, stable moderate depressive symptoms group and severe depressive symptoms group. Results showed that self-esteem, parental stress, child care cooperation of husband, marital satisfaction and social support affected the likelihood of membership in the four depressive symptoms groups. Conclusion: Prevention or intervention toward trajectory groups requires integrative approaches that target various factors across multiple contexts.

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