The Effects of Maternal Instructional Support, Teacher-Child Relationship, and Children’s Cool and Hot Executive Functions on Children’s Task-focused Behaviors (유아의 과제지향행동에 대한 어머니의 교육적 지지행동, 교사-유아관계 및 인지적∙정의적 실행기능의 영향)

Jihyun Sung (성지현)

The Effects of Maternal Instructional Support, Teacher-Child Relationship, and Children’s Cool and Hot Executive Functions on Children’s Task-focused Behaviors

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2017, 30(1), pp.195~217
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Jihyun Sung ¹

¹성균관대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study examined the effects of maternal instructional support, teacherchild relationship, and children’s cool and hot executive functions on task-focused behaviors. Participants were 94 children aged 4 and their mothers and teachers. Data for maternal instructional support behaviors were observed from motherchild interactions when doing a puzzle and drawing with an Etch-a Sketch. Children’s task-focused behaviors and teacherchild relationship were reported by teachers, and their cool and hot executive functions were assessed with a series of tasks provided by an experimenter. Path analyses showed that maternal instructional support was significantly related to children’s cool executive function and influenced children’s task-focused behavior by mediating cool executive function. Teacherchild relationship was significantly associated with children’s cool and hot executive functions, and was also directly associated with children’s task-focused behaviors. The relationship between teacherchild relationship and task-focused behaviors was partially mediated by children’s cool and hot executive functions. In addition, cool and hot executive functions were independent but were both significant predictors of task-focused behaviors. These findings confirm mothers’ and teachers’ roles in children’s development and learning, and provide backgrounds for the development of teacher education programs to support teacherchild relationships.

KEYWORDS

task-focused behavior, maternal instructional support, teacher-child relationship, cool executive function, hot executive function

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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