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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2022.22.01.337

The Characteristics of Figures Who has the Imaginary Companion in the Picture Book  

Park, Hyun-Kyung (성균관대학교 아동청소년학과)
Bong, Jin-Young (거제대학교 유아교육과)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.22, no.1, 2022 , pp. 337-347 More about this Journal
Abstract
This research aims to analyze the gender, sibling, and characteristics of figures who created the imaginary friends among 30 picture books published in Korea. At first, as a result of the research, a total of 35 figures of the 30 books had imaginary friends, of which 24 figures were women and 11 were men, with women more than twice as many as men. Secondly, in many cases, the only child in picture books had the imaginary companion, but in case of the figures who have brothers or sisters, The imaginary companion visited them more frequently to different gender rather than to same gender. Looking at the frequency of appearance of imaginary companion, the eldest, younger brother, and no appearance appeared in order. Third, as a result of examining the personality of figures who created the imaginary companion, their extroversion or introversion has no meaningful correlation each other. These results are meaningful as reference data for understanding children with imaginary friends in reality as picture books reflect the reality of children with imaginary friends and show various situations of infant with imaginary friends in a balanced manner.
Keywords
Picture Book; Imaginary Companion; Characteristics of Figure; Content Analysis;
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