The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of parent coaching competence on parent-child communication and parental capacity. The survey was conducted on 328 parents with 4-7 year old children that attend daycare centers in Chungnam, Gyeongnam, Seoul, and Gyeonggi provinces.
As a result, the higher the coaching competence of parents parental capacity, relationship formation capacity, self-growth capacity, and social competency, positive communication was found to increase.
In addition, the effect of parent coaching capacity on parent-child negative communication was explained by 14.7% of parent-child negative communication and regression model was significant. These results indicate that the higher the coaching competence of the parents pseudo-respect, relationship-forming and pseudo-expression, the lower the negative communication between parents and children. Third, the results of multivariate regression
analysis to examine the relationship between parent coaching competency and parental capacity indicate that parental growth promotion capacity, self-growth capacity, expressional capacity, and pseudo-respective capacity have a positive effect on parental capacity.