Korean J Child Stud. 1989; 10(1): 26-42.

The Relation between Mothers' Interaction strategies and Self - Regulation of Young Children

Vygotsky의 발달이론에 따른 어머니의 상호작용전략과 유아의 자기판단력과의 관계분석

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Chung Ran Lee

This study was designed to investigate the relation between mother`s interaction strategies and self-regulation of young children from a Vygotskian perspective. The hypotheses of this study were: 1) The self-regulation of young children will improve with increase in age, 2) the use of mothers` interaction strategies will increase as child`s age decreases, 3) mothers` directiveness in the mother-child interaction depends on the age of child and socio-economic level, and 4) mothers` directiveness in the mother-child interaction will have negative relationship with child`s self-regulation. The subjects of this study were 60 mother-child dyads with three different age-of-child groups (3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds). They were further divided into higher and lower socio-economic groups. A puzzle task was used for the measurement of self-regulation. The task consisted of two identical puzzles with one used as the model. The collected data were analyzed by x