The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of mothers' parental intelligence
on children's peer play interaction and peer acceptance. The participants were 197 fiveyear-
old children and their mothers of six kindergartens and child care centers in Seoul
and Gyeonggi province. The Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale(Choi & Shin, 2008), the
Peer Rating Scale(Asher et al., 1979), and the Parental Intelligence Scale(Hyon, 2004)
were used as measurements. The results of this study were as follows. Firstly, the
higher scores in mothers' parental intelligence of encouragement, enhancement, rational
authoritativeness, acceptance, control, and avoiding rejection roles, the more the children’s
positive behaviors were exhibited during the peer play. Secondly, children whose mothers
provided higher levels in parental intelligence of empathy, encouragement, rational
authoritativeness and enhancement roles were rated as displaying higher levels of
children’s peer acceptance. On the other hand, children whose mothers expressed higher
parental intelligence level of the rejection role tended to have lower levels of peer
acceptance.