재미교포 아동을 위한 정서지능 교육프로그램 개발의 기초 연구

The Development of Emotional Intelligence Educational Program for Korean-American Children

The purpose of this study was to develop Emotional Intelligence(EI) educational program for Korean-American children. This program was developed on the basis of instructional designing theory, and its effctviveness was investigated by empirical research. A total of 100 ten- and thirteen-year-old children attending a Korean school in the state of Minnesota, USA, participated in the research. The treatment consisted of 12 courses carried out over 12 weeks. When the emotional intelligence of the experimental and control group were compared at the end of the application, the experimental group showed significantly higher scores than control group on the EI and emotional regulation scores.