유아기 아동을 둔 아버지의 양육인식에 관한 내용분석

• Published in: Child health nursing research 2015, 21(2), , pp.91-97
• Main Authors: 박선정, 고가연, 최은영, Park, Sun-Jung, Ko, Ga-Yeon, Choi, Eun-Young
• Format: Article
• Language: Korean
• Subjects: 간호학
• ISSN: 2287-9110; 2287-9129
• DOI: 10.4094/chnr.2015.21.2.91

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness of fathers about early childhood parenting. Methods: Selected fathers of children in early childhood were interviewed, and an open-ended questionnaire was utilized to identify the fathers' awareness of the meaning of parenting, priority for parenting, opinions on paternal roles as a child raiser, parenting difficulties, and what education they wanted to receive as fathers. After their statements were collected, a content analysis was done. Results: Results of the content analysis showed there were 45 significant statements, which were classified into 17 categories. The fathers saw the meaning of parenting as being in five different domains: social, cognitive, emotional, physical and environmental. As for paternal roles, they thought that a fathers should serve as emotional supporters. The parenting difficulties that they faced were attributed to time constraints. Conclusion: For fathers, development of parent education programs that deal with early childhood parenting knowledge, communication methods and how to play with children according to their developmental stages are required, and qualitative research should be implemented to keep track of the process of changes in parenting characteristics.