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Development and Validation of 25~36 Months Old Infant's Happiness Scale for Teachers

교사용 25~36개월 영아 행복감 척도 개발 및 타당화 연구

  • Min, Sun-Hee (Department of Early Childhood Education, Joongbu University) ;
  • Kim, Young-Sook (Department of Early Childhood Education, Joongbu University)
  • 민선희 (중부대학교 유아교육과) ;
  • 김용숙 (중부대학교 유아교육과)
  • Received : 2018.10.29
  • Accepted : 2019.02.01
  • Published : 2019.02.28
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify factors of 25~36 months old infant's happiness and to develop a scale to measure infant happiness. The subjects were 250 infants aged 25~36 months. The results of this study are as follows: First, the components and items of infant's happiness scale selected through the literature, the previous measurement tool, and the focus group interview were 8 components and 29 items. The items were composed of 4 items of problem behavior, 4 items of achievement through immersion, 4 items of relationship with friends, 4 items of relationship with teacher, 3 items of physical environment, 4 items of positive emotion, 3 items of negative emotion, and 3 items of health. Second, as a result of validation of validity for infant's happiness scale, the item fit was confirmed with CFI=0.89, TLI=0.88, and RMR=0.05. Also, the construct validity was confirmed with convergent validity and discriminant validity. The concurrent validity was significantly correlated with the components of the previously developed measurement tools, and the reliability was appeared with 0.71-0.89. The infant's happiness scale developed in this study ensured reliability and validity as a measurement to measure infant happiness. Therefore, this scale is expected to be used as a major test tool to develope and verify a program for promoting infant happiness.

이 연구는 25~36개월 영아 행복감 구성요인을 확인하고 영아 행복감을 측정할 수 있는 척도를 개발하는데 연구의 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 문헌, 선행 측정도구 분석내용과 포커스그룹 인터뷰 내용을 통해 영아 행복감 구성요인과 문항을 선정하였다. 선정된 문항의 타당화를 위해 D지역 25~36개월 영아 250명을 대상으로 설문을 실시하여 확인적 요인분석, 구인타당도, 공인타당도, 신뢰도를 검증하였다. 그 결과는 첫째, 이 연구에서 개발된 영아 행복감 척도의 구성요인과 문항은 문제행동(4), 몰입을 통한 성취(4), 친구와의 관계(4), 교사와의 관계(4), 물리적 환경(3), 긍정정서(4), 부정정서(3), 건강(3)의 총 8개 구성요인과 29문항이다. 둘째, 영아 행복감 척도의 구인타당도는 문항 적합도 CFI=0.89, TLI=0.88, RMR=0.05로 적합하였으며, 집중타당도와 판별타당도를 확보하였다. 공인타당도는 기존에 개발된 측정도구의 구성요인들과 유의미한 관련성을 보였다. 마지막으로 신뢰도는 0.71-0.89로 나타나 이 연구에서 개발된 영아 행복감 척도는 영아의 행복감을 측정하기 위한 신뢰도와 타당도를 갖춘 척도라 할 수 있다. 그러므로 영아 행복감 척도는 영아 행복감 증진을 위한 프로그램 개발 및 적용의 효과를 검증해주는 주요 검사도구로서 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

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Fig. 1. A structural model of confirmatory factor analysis of infant happiness scale.

Table 1. Demographic characteristics of subjects(Infants, Teachers)

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Table 2. The mean and standard deviation of the items of the infantile happiness scale

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Table 3. An analysis of correlation between constituent factors of infant happiness scale

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Table 4. Confirmatory Factor Analysis result of the infant happiness scale

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Table 5. Correlation analysis result

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Table 6. Correlation coefficient between infant happiness scale and infant affirmative action scale

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Table 7. Correlation coefficient between the infantile happiness scale and the happiness measurement tool

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Table 8. Results of the item reliability test for the infantile happiness scale

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