Child-rearing practices and psychological disorders in children: cross-cultural comparison of Korea and Australia.
The present study was designed to explore cultural differences in the relationship between parenting behaviors and psychological adjustment of the child. Mother-son interaction behaviors of 37 Korean boys (11 with Anxiety Disorder, 10 with Externalizing Disorders and 16 Non-clinical boys) and 54 Australian boys (20 with Anxiety Disorder, 17 with Externalizing Disorders and 17 Non-clinical boys) between the ages of 7 and 15 were compared in terms of parental negativity and involvement. The results indicated that Korean mothers displayed more overall negativity and lower overall involvement than Australian mothers. Furthermore, anxiety diagnosis was associated with low maternal involvement in the Korean subjects, while in the Australian subjects, high maternal involvement was associated with clinical status in the child.
Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, C.P.O. Box 8044, Seoul 120-752, Korea.
Kyung Ja
KJ
Oh
Yee Jin
YJ
Shin
Kyung Joo
KJ
Moon
Jennifer L
JL
Hudson
Ronald M
RM
Rapee
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000209:etiology; D001315:Australia; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations