J Nurs Acad Soc.  1990 Aug;20(2):142-152.

A Study on Autistic Children in Korea

• Lee YJ

Abstract

This study was to determined the trend of child rearing attitude, to investigate how variables affect the child rearing attitudes, and to suggest directions for developing much needed parental effective training programer or counselling for autistic child in community. The subjects were seventy six mother's of autistic children who attending to 13 treatment institutions in Korea. The data were collected from 1, March to 30, May, 1985. Maternal Behavior Research Instrument exploited by Schaefer, used as a tool in this study. The research findings obtained were as follows : 1. Mothers, in general, had affective, restrictive attitudes, and were found to be affective, yet did not give a positive evaluation of children's behavior and used fear control extensively, thus made their children dependent. 2. There were no significantly differences in child rearing attitude by children's sex and age. 3. There were no significantly differences in child rearing attitudes by mother's age, education level and religion. 4. There was no significantly differences in child rearing attitudes by father's occupation.

MeSH Terms

Autistic Disorder/psychology/*therapy
Child
Child Rearing
Female
Humans
Korea
Male
*Mother-Child Relations