The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation, if any, between a parent’s
approach to child-rearing and the child’s moral judgement and whether the degree of
correlation differs by age or gender. To this end, a Pearson correlation analysis was
conducted using the SPSS 14.0 Windows Program on data collected from children ages
4-5 enrolled in five daycare centers in Gyeonggi Province and Incheon City as well as
the children’s parents. The study results show that while there is no statistically
significant correlation between a mother’s approach to child-rearing and the child’s moral
judgement, the higher the father’s resistance to control in child-rearing is, the lower the
child’s moral judgement. Also discovered was that motivation through images and clear
description on results led to a higher moral judgement of children. Therefore, this
suggests the possibility that as children grow and mature at an ever earlier age, the point
at which their moral judgement develops occur much earlier than before, too. When moral
judgement skills for each age were compared among children, five year-old children rated
higher than four year-olds, while parents’ approach to child-rearing showed to have no
difference that was statistically significant to the moral judgement skills of children,
whether boy or girl.