• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.53-66
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• 2006

An experimental group consisting of 15 boys and 13 girls, and a control group of 12 boys and 18 girls comprised the 58 five-year-old kindergarten sample of this study. Teachers measured children's emotional intelligence with the Emotional Intelligence Rating Scale(Kim, 1998); educational activities for the emotions focusing on self-awareness, self-management, self-motivation, empathy, and social skills were carried out with the experimental group. ANCOVA confirmed effectiveness of the educational activities; the experimental group had higher scores than the control group on self-awareness and expression of emotion, emotional regulation, and awareness of others' emotion. Children of the experimental group also showed higher interpersonal abilities in teacher and in peer relationships than the control group.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.61-75
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• 2007

This study examined the relationships among children's emotional intelligence, maternal psychological life position and children's social behavior. The study subjects were 267 four and five-year-old children and their mothers from five childcare centers located in Seoul. The children's social behavior was assessed by the teacher rating scale developed by Lim(1999) and questionnaires were used to assess the maternal psychological life position and children's emotional intelligence. Data was analyzed by t-test, Pearson's correlation, and stepwise multiple regression. The results demonstrated that the children's social behavior differed according to their gender and age. The strongest predictor of children's social behavior was the children's emotional intelligence.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.482-491
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• 2009

The purpose of this research is to design and develop teacher assistant contents 'My Class' for an intelligent robot iRobiQ, using in early childhood educational setting. After observing daily activities and correspondence role of teachers in educational settings, we selected the robots' target contents as 6 main functions (Attendance, Activity, Gallery, Learning, Role Calling, and Timer). We designed the contents according to the PLU (Player-Learner-User) model which suggests importance of entertainment, education, and enabling features to meet player, learner, and user requirements. We also considered 'emotional' features to satisfy 'companion' requirements. The developed contents in this study was deployed in kindergarten classrooms consisting of five-years-old for 4 weeks to see how they response and use the contents. We found that both teachers and children were likely to show positive responses to the contents. Especially, young children responded to the entertainment and emotional features more actively than to the other features. And they continually explored for something new inside the contents. Finally, this paper discusses what should be considered to develop more useful teacher assistant contents for iRobiQ.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.167-183
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• 2010

This study examined the relationship between maternal attitudes toward children's expressiveness, children's emotional intelligence and problem behaviors. The question as to whether emotional intelligence mediated the relationship between maternal attitudes and problem behaviors was also explored. A sample of 307 preschool children were used as subjects. Mothers rated their levels of acceptance toward their children's emotions, while teachers reported on the children's emotional abilities and behavioral problems. The data were analyzed by means of regression analyses. Our results indicated that mothers' controlling attitudes were associated with low levels of worry-anxiety. Additionally, it was found that children with high emotional intelligence showed low levels of worry-anxiety, hostility-aggression, and hyperactivity-inattention. While multiple factors of emotional intelligence had differential impacts, the self-control factor was the most powerful predictor for all the problem behaviors. It was further found that a mother's receptive attitude was related to higher levels of self-awareness in children. Instead of the significant mediating effect of emotional intelligence, it was revealed that emotional intelligence had greater effects upon problem behaviors than maternal attitudes toward children's expressiveness.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.15-29
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• 2014

This study explored the relationships between maternal mind-mindedness, parenting stress, parenting behaviors and preschoolers' emotional intelligence. The subjects consisted of 107 preschoolers and their mothers. The result of this study are summarized as follows; First, maternal mind-mindedness had an indirect effect on parenting behaviors through parenting stress. Second, maternal mind-mindedness had a direct impact on emotional intelligence. These results clearly indicate that maternal mind-mindedness plays a crucial role in parenting behaviors and preschoolers' emotional intelligence.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.135-146
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• 2008

This study explored mediating effects of the preschooler's emotional intelligence between maternal parenting behaviors and exclusion by peers. Subjects were 138 4- to 5-year-old preschoolers(92 boys, 46 girls) and their mothers. Exclusion by peers was measured by the Child Behavior Scale(Ladd & Profilet, 1996), maternal parenting behaviors were measured by the Parenting Questionnaire(Park, 1999), and preschooler's emotional intelligence was measured by the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire(Lee, 1998). Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. Results showed that preschooler's emotional self-awareness mediated the effects of both maternal sensitive behaviors and maternal hostile/refusal behaviors on preschooler's exclusion by peers.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.335-349
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• 2005

The subjects in this study of children's playfulness in relation to emotional intelligence and social competence were 247 children in Gyeonggi Province. Data were analyzed by regression analysis using the SPSS computer program. The major results of this study were that children's playfulness was significantly related to and explained by "Peer relations skill" in the sub areas of social competence and "relationship with peers," utilization of emotion" in sub areas of emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence and socially competent interaction were significantly related to and explained by manifest joy in the sub areas of children's playfulness.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.369-376
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationships among childcare teachers' emotional intelligence, daycare center directors' emotional leadership, and teacher-infant interactions. Also, this study examines whether a daycare center director's emotional leadership would mediate the correlation between a childcare teacher's emotional intelligence and teacher-infant interactions. A questionnaire was given to 293 childcare teachers. Using SPSS version 21.0, the data were analyzed for Pearson's correlation, hierarchical regression analysis, the Sobel-test, and the meditation effect proposed by Baron and Kenny. The findings are as follows. First, there was a positive correlation between a childcare teacher's emotional intelligence, the director's emotional leadership, and teacher-infant interactions. Second, the influence on teacher-infant interactions from directors' emotional leadership was relatively greater than childcare teachers' emotional intelligence. Finally, the emotional leadership of daycare center directors partially mediated the relationship between childcare teachers' emotional intelligence and teacher-infant interactions. This study provides significant empirical data for improving childcare.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.39-49
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• 2010

This study focused on the links between emotionality, interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence, and behavior problems in a sample of 185 four- to five-year-old children in kindergarten and daycare centers in Seoul. All variables were measured by the teachers of surveyed children. Collected data were analyzed by Simple Regression and Hierarchical Multiple Regression. The main results of this study were as follows: Firstly, children's positive and negative emotionality each exerted negative and positive effects on their interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence. Secondly, children's positive emotionality had a negative influence on internalizing behavior problems. On the other hand, children's negative emotionality had a positive influence on internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Finally, effect of children's positive emotionality on their internalizing behavior problems was totally mediated by interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence. On the other hand, effect of children's negative emotionality on their internalizing and externalizing behavior problems was partially mediated by their interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.355-358
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 아동이 유머와 슬픔을 느낄 때 나타나는 자율신경계 및 안면근육반응의 차이를 밝히고자 하였다. 11-13세의 아동 47명(남: 23명, 여: 24명)에게 각 정서를 유발하는 동영상 자극을 2분 동안 제시하고, 이때의 심리반응과 생리반응(SKT, EDA, ECG, EMG)을 측정하였다. 각 정서는 적합하고 효과적으로 유발되었고, 자율신경계반응에서는 유머가 슬픔보다 피부 전도수준, 피부전도반응, 피부전도반응의 수, 심박률분산에서 유의하게 큰 반응을 보였다. 반면 피부온도는 유머에 비하여 슬픔에서 크게 증가하였다. 안면근육반응 결과, 유머가 Orbicularis oris muscle에서 슬픔보다 더 큰 근육활동의 증가를 나타내었다. 결론적으로 아동은 유머와 슬픔에서 서로 다른 자율신경계와 안면근육의 반응을 보였다.