Research Abstract  No.  75 
               Love Experision Patterns of Mothers as Related to Child Personality and 
                                                Emotional- Social Characteristics 
                                               Assistant Professor Laddawan Kasemnet 
                                               Archan Tasana Thongpukdee 


            The purpose of this study was two-fold. First it aimed to investigate love expression pattern of mothers with
different family backgrounds, second to compare intreovert-extrovert personality, leadership, adjustment and mental
hygiene including depression, anxiety and aggressiveness of student with four types of love expression patterns. 
                The sample comprised 221 Prathom Suksa IV students with 113  females and 108 males, and 240 
Mathayom Suksa II students with 150 females and 90 males from 10 schools in Bangkok during the 1996 academic year.
A questionnaire consisting of 3 parts was administered. The first part concerned student backgrounds and characteristics.
The second part was about mother' s love expressions. And the third one was about the feelings about oneself in the
introvert-extrovert aspect of the personality, in the areas of leadership, mental hygiene and adjustment. The data were
then analyzed using means, standard deviations, analyses of variance and coefficient correlations. 
              The results revealed that : 
                1.  The student perceived mother' slove expressions through meterial gains mean that Love was expressed
materially rather than mindful which included word or gestures. Love expressions patterns of mother could be classified
into 4 patterns as follows ; 1) mother' s love expressions through material and mindful ways at a low level, 2) mother's
love expressions through material ways at a low level and through mindful ways at a high level, 3) mother's love
expressions through material ways at a high level and through mindful ways at a low level, and 4) mother's love
expresions through material and mindful ways at a high level.  The results releated that the fourth pattern was used as
much as the first pattern, both as a whole and in sub - groups. The only exception was the Mathayom Suksa II students
whose mothers used the fourth pattern more than the first pattern. 
            2.  Student as a whole and Mathayom  Suksa II students who received mother's love expression in the fourth and
third patterns showed the more extrovert personality, more leadership, better mental hygiene as a whole and in
sub-categories of depression, anxiety and aggresiveness than those who received mother's love expressions in the first
and second patterns. However there was no significant difference in adjustment. For Prathom Suksa IV student no
significant difference was found in the introvert- extrovert aspect of the personality. 

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