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A Study of Preschooler's Stress Coping Strategies Depending on Task and Temperament  

Kim Jimin (Dept. of Child Development & Family Studies, Seoul National Univ.)
Yoo An Jin (Dept. of Child Development & Family Studies, Seoul National Univ.)
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Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association / v.43, no.1, 2005 , pp. 177-189 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigated 3- and 5-year-old preschoolers' stress coping strategies depending on tasks, and whether preschoolers' stress coping strategies in each task depended on their temperament types. Subjects were 96 3- and 5-year-old preschoolers selected from three day-care centers in Seoul, Kounggi. A Parent Temperament Questionnaire for preschooler was used, and the coping strategies which each preschooler showed in task with perceived controllable, task with perceived uncontrollable were recorded by a video camera. Preschoolers' stress coping strategies recorded by a video camera were transcribed and analyzed according to the categories the researcher generated. Data were analyzed by paired t-tests and t-tests. As a results, there was a significant differences in preschoolers' stress coping strategies depending on the tasks and a significant temperament type difference in the preschoolers' stress coping strategies in each task.
Keywords
task; temperament; stress coping strategy;
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