摘要：Parenting or parenting behaviors has been a key subject during the last three decades. Studies on the parenting mainly focused on either the associations between mothers' parenting and child outcomes or variables predicting parenting behaviors. Regarding child outcomes,social-emotional development of children has been more frequently studied than their cognitive development. Also,the characteristics of parents,children,and contextual environments have received attention in predicting mothers' parenting behaviors. Recently,there have been atempts in identifying the processes that are hypothesized to mediate or moderate the relationships between parenting and developmental outcomes. Furthermore,the studies using longitudinal data have been increased as well. For a future direction,the age-specific and culturally sensitive measures assessing Korean mothers' parenting behaviors are needed. Research efforts and policies should be directed toward supporting parents and their children from diverse backgrounds in the rapidly changing Korean society.
