• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.251-267
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• 2010

This study analyzed variables that affect children's social behavior. The subjects were 1000 kindergarten children and their mothers living in Korea. Instruments used in this study were the Children's Social Behavior, Temperament, Emotional Intelligence, Maternal Characteristics, and Parental Involvement Checklist. Collected data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression analysis. Results showed that (a) girls had higher social behavior score than boys. (b) For both boys and girls' social behavior was related to children's temperament and emotional intelligence. Particularly, children's emotional intelligence was the strongest predictor for both boys and girls' social behavior.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.31-53
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• 2013

This study was to examine the effects of young child's temperament, emotion regulation and teacher-child relationships on young children's prosocial behavior. The subjects of this study were 374 3- 5-year old children and their teachers. The collected data were analyzed by t-test, correlations and pathway analysis. The results were as follows: First, girls' prosocial behavior was found to be higher than boys'. Second, boys' and girls' temperament were found to affect young children's prosocial behavior directly and indirectly through teacher-child relationship and emotion regulation. Third, teacher-child relationships was found to affect boys' prosocial behavior directly and to mediate between boys' temperament and emotion regulation and prosocial behavior. Additionally emotion regulation was found to be the most important variable predicting boys' and girls' prosocial behavior and to mediate between temperament and teacher-child relationship and prosocial behavior.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.169-175
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• 2019

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of young children's emotional intelligence and prosocial behaviors on their leadership. The subjects were 400 children aged 4 to 5 in the metropolitan area in South Korea. Subjects' emotional intelligence, prosocial behaviors, and leadership were measured by their teachers using questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation analyses, and analysis of multiple regression using SPSS 23.0. Young children's emotional intelligence as well as prosocial behaviors showed the positive correlations with their leadership. In addition, young children's emotional intelligence and prosocial behaviors had the positive effects on their leadership.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.418-425
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of young children's empathic ability and interpersonal competence on caring behavior in forming relationships. Subjects included 152 4- and 5-year-old children attending a kindergarten located in a micropolitan city. Questionnaires required self-reporting by teachers, and were used to investigate young children's caring behavior, empathic ability and interpersonal competence in forming relationships. Data was analyzed using t-test, Pearson's correlation coefficient analysis and Stepwise-Regression analysis. Results were as follows: First, young children's caring behavior was negatively correlated with empathic ability and positively associated with interpersonal competence in forming relationships. Second, young children's emotional behavior as each domain of caring behavior were predictable variables for explaining the relative effect of the social reactivity and explaining the relative effect of relationship formation. Active behaviors were predictable variables for explaining the relative effect of follow-up instructions, but negatively affected mental burden. Normative behaviors were predictable variables for explaining the relative effect of social reactivity, but negatively predictable variables for explaining the relative effect of the relationship formation and mental burden. Value-contributing behavior in each domain of caring behavior were predictable variables for explaining the relative effect of the positive interaction.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.215-238
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• 2013

This study examined the effects of mothers' rejective parenting, emotional expressivity, children's emotional regulation strategy on their social withdrawal. Participants were 223 children(121 boys, 102 girls; recruited from classes with 4-5 year olds), their mothers and 20 child care teachers. The teachers completed rating scales to measure the children's social withdrawal and emotional regulation strategies. Mothers reported their rejective parenting along with emotional expressivity. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson's productive correlation coefficient, and hierarchical multiple regressions. Results showed that mothers' rejective parenting, children's venting/support seeking strategy and avoidance/non-responsive strategy had positive relation to, whereas mother's positive expressivity were negatively related to their social withdrawal. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that the interaction of mother's rejective parenting and positive expressivity predicted children's social withdrawal. Mother's rejective parenting was associated with children's social withdrawal, especially for children with the lowest level of mother's positive expressivity. In addition, the association between mother's rejective parenting and children's social withdrawal were partially mediated by their venting/support seeking strategy.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.647-657
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to investigate how young children's excessive immersion in smartphone games affects their prosocial and problematic behavior. To achieve the purpose, a qustionnaire survey was conducted with 147 children aged 3 to 5 going to two kindergartens and two child-care centers which were judged to have similar social and economic conditions, their mothers, and 16 teachers in charge of them. For data processing, SPSS 18.0 program was used to conduct frequency analysis, correlation analysis, and simple regression analysis. The study results were presented as follows. First, the more seriously the young children had excessive immersion in smartphone games, the more negatively their prosocial behavior was influenced. Secondly, the more severely the young children had excessive immersion in smartphone games, the more problematic behavior the young children had. This study is meaningful in the point that it analyzed the impact of their addiction in smartphone games on their prosocial and problematic behavior, and thereby helped to improve a plan of effectively using smartphones as educational media.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.221-228
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• 2018

This study aimed to analysis the effect of parenting behaviors on young children's social competence. The data of 1408 child 72-79 months and their parents were extracted from the 7th Panel Study on Korean Children in 2014 by Korean Instute of Child Care and Education. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, and the multiple regression analysis. The research results were as follow: First, there was a significant difference in social competence of young children according to gender and mother's parenting behaviors and father's warmth parenting behaviors. Second, mother's warmth and control parenting behaviors and father's warmth parenting behaviors influenced young children's social competence. But, father's control parenting behaviors didn't influenced the social competence of their children. After discussing these and then a conclusion and proposal were presented.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.433-438
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• 2019

This study investigated the effects of young children's emotional reading ability on prosocial behavior. The participants in this study were 192 young children's. From December 17, December 27, 2018, after conducting a survey on emotional reading ability and prosocial behavior of infants, the data was analyzed using the SPSS WIN 22.0 program for pearson correlation analysis and regression analysis. The results of the analysis suggest the following: First, there were significant relationships between young children's emotional reading ability and prosocial Behavior. Second, young children's emotional reading ability affected prosocial behavior. In conclusion, this study is believed to be the basis for the development of programs to improve emotional reading ability and promote prosocial behavior.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.143-171
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• 2013

This paper aims to develop the art programs supporting prosocial behaviors of young children from multicultural and typical Korean families. On the basis of the survey results and literature review, art activities were planned. And the program was executed amongst young children from multicultural and typical Korean families to test the applicability of the program. The young children in the program showed either positive attitudes or conflicts with their peer group at the beginning. As the program continued, young children were gradually harmonized, yielding to each other and were negotiating. During the last stage of the program, young children from multicultural and typical Korean families demonstrated prosocial behaviors of sharing, helping, and cooperating with each other. These kinds of results prove that the art programs are helpful in promoting prosocial behavior among young children from multicultural and typical Korean families. Therefore, it appears that an educational institute in which young children from multicultural families are taught would be able to support prosocial behavior for young children from multicultural and typical Korean families using this program.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.5-23
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of young children's verbal expression on their prosocial behaviors. The subjects were 44 four-year-olds and 42 five-year- olds in nine kindergartens and daycare centers located in Gyeonggi-do. The instruments used were Verbal Expressiveness Inventory(Jang, 1981) and PBSYC for teachers(Kim, 2003). The major findings of the study were as follows: Concerning the correlations between their verbal expression and prosocial behavior, those who had better verbal expression showed more prosocial behavior. The relationships between the subfactors of verbal expression and those of prosocial behavior were inconsistent to some extent, but there was a positive correlation between the two overall. So it could be said that a better verbal expresson leads to better prosocial behavior. From the findings of the study on the effect of the verbal expression on prosocial behavior, it can be concluded that young children who have better verbal expression are more excellent at building a good peer relationship, helping their peers, being considerate, making themselves accessible, sharing their own belongings with peers and regulating their own emotions. This study is expected to assist early childhood education institutions to provide young children with a variety of educational activities geared toward improving verbal expression to improve their prosocial behaviors. Also, this study is expected to help teachers to improve the prosocial behavior of young children in diverse ways.