• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.47-68
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate how children's temperament and relationships with teachers affect their peer interaction. For this purpose, two surveys were conducted on mothers and teachers of 326 four- and five-year-old children attending four kindergartens in Gyeonggi Province. The data were analyzed by using PASW 18.0 to carry out hierarchical regression and post hocanalyses. The results showed that closeness to teachers moderated the effects of children's emotionality on their positive peer interaction. On the other hand, children's temperaments including emotionality and activity, and their relationship with teachers were directly influential on their negative peer interaction; no interaction effect was found between their temperament and relationships with teachers. It was concluded that the quality of teacher-child relationships could promote children's positive peer interaction while it could also reduce their negative interaction with peers. However, the temperament of children played limited roles in their negative peer interaction.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.1-12
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to investigate the gender and sibling composition differences in psychological well-being, and to analyze the effects of family and school environment on psychological well-being among Chinese adolescents. Data from 453 students of middle school were used for final analysis. This study found that only child adolescents showed higher levels of self-esteem and low levels of depression than adolescents with sibling. Regression analysis revealed that self-esteem were influenced by relations with teachers, peer relations and marital conflict among male only child adolescents and female adolescents with sibling. Self-esteem of female only child adolescents was affected by parenting behavior and relations with teachers, and self-esteem of male adolescents with sibling was affected by relations with teachers. Relations with teachers and parenting behavior had impact on depression of Chinese adolescents, but depression was not influenced by peer relations.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.217-236
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether preschoolers' peer interaction type and level differ depending on pair compositon and task type. Preschoolers' peer interaction type and level were compared among three kinds of pair compositions(with a Younger peer, with a same-age peer, and with an older peer) as well as between two types of tasks(tasks involving real objects, and tasks involving pictures). Subjects were seventy-eight four-year-old children recruited from six child-care centers in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. The preschoolers were randomly assigned to one of the three kinds of pair compositions. Interaction processes of the pairs were recorded by a video camera, and the scenes were transcribed for content analyses. The traniscribed peer interactions were coded according to the categories that the researcher had generated. Statistical methods used for the data analysis were frequencies, percentiles, means, standard deviations, repeated measures ANOVA, paired t-tests, one-way ANOVA. Major findings of this study were as follows: There were significant differences preschoolers' in interaction type depending on the pair compositions and the types of tasks. The preschoolers paired with the older peer used abstract collaborative explanations more frequently than in two other types of pair composition. The preschoolers paired with the younger peer used explanations without collaboration and parallel behaviors more frequently than in two other types of pair composition.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.49-68
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• 2011

This study examined if any differences exist of young children's physical and relational aggression as affected by aggression levels, teacher-child and peer relationship, age, and gender. Furthermore, the extent of physical or relational aggression of the young children influencing teacher-child relationships is also examined. In this study, two hundred and fifty children aged three to ten and fifty-two teachers were targeted. They responded on questionnaires in regard to aggression, teacher-child relationships, and peer relationship. The findings are as follows: First, in terms of child aggression according to his/her age, it has been shown that physical aggression is primarily present in the age of four. Second, concerning gender, boys are found to be high in levels of both relational and physical aggression. Third, the data shows that in the relationship between the child's aggression and teacher-child relationship, the higher the child's aggression, the lower the intimacy of relationship between child and teacher and the higher the dependence and conflict in the relationship of teacher and child. Fourth, in the examination of relationships between a child's aggression and peer influence, higher levels of relational and physical aggression correlate with higher aggressive, hyperactive, and anti-social behaviors. In addition, the higher the age and relational aggression, the higher the pro-social behaviors that occur. Pedagogical implications and suggestions are put forth in the areas of improving relationships between children and teachers, how teachers can assist young learner development, and techniques to improve peer relationships and reduce its difficulties.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.15-28
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in self competence between children from multicultural families and children from Korean families, and to study how interparental conflict and peer relationship influence the self competence of children. The subjects of the present study were 138 children of multicultural families and 254 children of Korean families in the 3rd or 4th grade in Seoul, Daegu, Gyeong-gi province, and Gyeong-buk province. The instruments of measurement were the Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict, Friendship and the Perceived Competence Scale for Children. Date were analyzed by independent samples T-test, MANCOVA, ANCOVA and multiple regression using the SPSS program. The results showed there was significant difference in the self competence of children between those from multicultural families and those from Korean families, but there was no significant difference when income was controlled. Second, for children of multicultural families, gender, income, and the intensity of interparental conflict had significant influence on self competence while gender, aid, conflict, and disclosure of negative affect in friendship, and being a peacemaker in interparental conflict influenced self competence significantly in the case of children of Korean families.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.3934-3942
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• 2012

This study heads for analysing precedent studies on children's social conflicts and groping for the tendency of change investigation, according to streams. So, this study selected and analysed 101 books as a study standard, basing on native studies. The collected materials were handled with frequency and percentage. The summary of the study is as followings. First, the progress of the studies on children's social conflict, classified with years, showed an increase from 1995 to 2005, but it showed a decrease after 2005. Second, as for an object of a study on children's social conflicts, the study frequency on conflicts among peers was high greatly, but the study frequency on parent-child, teacher-child conflicts was low comparatively. As for a number of the study object, the study frequency on the object less than 50 was the highest, and the study frequency on 50-100 was high, the next. As for a study period, short-period study was the most, but longitudinal study was not performed at all. As a study type, quantitative study was comparatively higher than qualitative study. Experimental handling method was the highest. The number of study tools was high in order of 1, 2, and 3. Third, as a subject of the study on children's social conflicts, the subject of study on relationship between children's social conflict factors and their development was the most, and children's social conflict factors, and children's social conflict aspect analysis, and children's conflict solution strategy in order.

• 한국사회복지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.223-250
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• 2004

In this paper, the proposing a fundamental data for a systematic and effective organizational management by examining the extent of the levels of conflict perceiving among individuals of social welfare workers in the Busan community social welfare center, a social welfare organizations, and investigating the related influencing factors are the purpose of the study, The summary of this study is as follows. At first, it is dysfunctional when the level of conflict is either exceedingly high or low in the interrelational conflict aspect. However, the social welfare workers' working in the community social welfare center, the extent of individual conflict is relatively low as 2.37 out of 5 points. Secondly, the multi-regression analysis is operated for controlling the population sociological factors and measuring the effectiveness of the conflict factors to the level of conflict. The influencing factors affects the result in the order of greater extent are communication factor, leader's flexibility of leadership factor, spontaneity among personality, confidentiality. As a result, Not like the case that in the technological bureaucratic organizations such as the enterprises or industrial organizations, in the human service organizations including social welfare organizations, these technological bureaucratic paradigm does not applying directly since the material of organization is composed of humans who are given moral values. Therefore, this paradigm should be put as a presupposition of the conflict management strategy. And, the communication among colleagues, learning a reasonable problem solution method, or the chances of education or training for establishing a sound human relationship should be prepared in order to lower the level of the conflict among individuals in the community social welfare department. Furthermore, professional education programs are needed for not only supporting an effective supervision and consultation(consultation with superiors and colleagues), but also, working with confidentiality and pride as a professional.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.209-227
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• 2015

The present study investigated maternal parenting stress trajectories, using data gathered from the Korean Children Panel Survey. Four factors-monthly income, maternal depression levels, infants' negative emotionality, marital conflict-which were taken from reports made by the mothers' used in this study, were examined as predictors of maternal parenting stress trajectories. The effects of maternal parenting stress trajectories, parenting styles and toddlers' peer interruptive behaviors were also examined. The findings were as follows: First, maternal parenting stress trajectories somewhat increased from the 1st year period to the 4th year period. Second, infants' negative emotionality and marital conflict within the first year were observed to have a connection to the initial level and slope of maternal parenting stress trajectories. Third, maternal parenting stress trajectories predicted positive parenting styles, and parenting styles had a longitudinal impact on toddlers' peer interruptive behaviors at the 5th year period.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.121-134
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• 2011

The purposes of this study were to test the differences in communicative competence and conflict-resolving strategies between both popular and rejected children, and to thereby verify the discriminance of communicative competence and conflict-resolving strategies for both types of children. 52 popular children and 41 rejected children from among a pool of 202 6th grade elementary students were selected, and the data were analyzed by means of independent sample t-test and discriminant analysis. The research findings are as follows : First, listen up (sub-factors of perceiving), self-presentation, planning, and coding revealed statistically significant differences between the popular and the rejected children. Second, only negotiation and cooperation strategies revealed any statistically significant differences between the popular and the rejected children, while other sub-factors of conflict-resolving strategies indicated broad indifference between them. Third, it was only the factor of planning among 5 factors of communicative competence and 4 factors within conflict-resolving strategies which indicated that it was the most discriminant predictor between the popular and the rejected children. These results suggest that a comprehensive program is needed to improve the communicative competence and conflict-resolving strategies of rejected children.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.85-126
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 4세 영재아들이 유아교육 기관에서 일반 유아들과 생활하는 과정을 문화기술적(ethnographic) 연구방법을 통하여 분석해 보고자 하였다. 본 연구는 서울시에 위치한 유치원의 만 4세 남자 유아와 전주시에 위치한 어린이집에 다니는 만 4세 여자 유아를 대상으로 선정하였다. 1999년 4월 2일 - 1999년 6월 18일까지 14주 동안 진행되었다. 관찰은 1주일에 2-3회 1시간 정도씩 참여하였다. 교사와의 면담은 6차례에 걸쳐 총 2시간 10분 동안의 면담을 녹음하여 분석하였다. 부모와의 면담은 4차례에 걸쳐 실시되었으며, 영재아를 지도해 본 교사 6명에게 설문지를 실시하였다. 수집된 사례는 부호화하고 범주화 한 뒤 분석하였다. 본 연구는 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 유아교육기관에서 4세 영재아들은 풍부한 지식과 우수한 기억력, 부한한 상상력, 문제해결 능력과 논리적 추리 능력, 흥미와 집착, 다른 장난과 배회, 포기와 합리화의 특징을 가지고 있었다. 둘째, 4세 영재아들의 또래 친구들과 자기 중심적 사고와 자기 주장, 갈등과 화합, 놀이 주도자와 창안자의 관계를 갖고 있었다. 셋째, 부모들은 자녀에 대해 강력한 지지자, 정원사와 같은 신념과 양육태도를 가지고 있었다. 넷째, 교사들을 영재아 지도에 대해 놀라운 아이, 방해하는 아이로 인식하였으며, 논리적 설득과 중재, 제재와 격리의 방법으로 지도 하고 있었으며, 수용 혹은 지나친 인정, 그리고 방치하는 것에 대해 갈등을 갖고 있었다.