Yuli Kurniawati Sugiyo Pranoto, Jianzhong Hong
This study aims to evaluate whether mothers and their children have the same perspective on the children’s happiness. It enriched studies gap concerning agreement on perspective about young children happiness. Some studies showed agreement, the others showed disagreement. In total 777 children and 367 mothers were involved in this study. This study used face scale test for children to address their happiness. This study required mothers to recognize face scales and give ratings as to what the level of their children’s happiness was. The Spearman rho analysis was revealed that Indonesian mothers and children have discrepancies on happiness (r = 0.091; p =.080). In view of gender difference, agreement was found between mothers and sons (r = 0.195; p =.009), but not on daughters. It is needed to develop parenting program to educate mothers on how build better communication particularly with daughters. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Graduate School of Early Childhood Education, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia; School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
