• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.193-217
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate and suggest directions and assignments of elementary school counseling based on positive psychology. For this purpose, the goal, contents, techniques and effects of counseling based on positive psychology were examined. Based on this review, the suggested implications for directions and assignments of elementary school counseling as follows; In connection with the directions of elementary school counseling, first, it was suggested that problem-focused counseling approaches centered a small number of problem children should be changed to strength based counseling approaches facilitating all children's whole development, happiness and well-being. Second, it was suggested that continuous and systematic counseling helps should be served to all children so that they can aware, experience and use their character strengths in their all lives at the inside and outside of their school. In connection with the assignments of elementary school counseling, first, increasing children's understanding on happiness, developing counseling programs for enhancing happiness and verifying their effects were discussed. Second, developing effective applying plans of positive counseling techniques and verifying their effects were discussed. Finally, making researches on our children's character strengths and interventions for developing their character strengths were discussed.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.353-362
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of elementary school student's perceived father's trait on self-regulating skills and peer relationship skills as well as the influence of father's trait according to gender of children on self-regulation skills and peer relationship skills. The summary of main results of this is as follows: It can be seen that by diminishing time-bomb and fatherless and enhancing compassionate mentor among sub-factors of father's trait as perceived by children, self-regulation skills and peer relationship skills of children could be improved. And it was understood that in the influence of father's trait as perceived by children on self-regulation skills and peer relationship skills, there is a need to consider gender difference of male and female children.

• Research in Mathematical Education
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.39-47
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to analyze the strength and weakness of the intelligences appeared by the profile of the multiple intelligences of gifted children in mathematics. The subjects of this study were 80 students from D-Education Center for Gifted Children in Korea. Their multiple intelligences were measured by the self-scaling test of Korean-Multiple Intelligence Development Assessment Scale, in July 2006. The conclusions of this study are as follows: First, the strengths of multiple intelligences of the gifted children in mathematics are in logical-mathematical intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence and interpersonal intelligence. And, the weakness of multiple intelligences of the gifted in elementary mathematics is in bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. Second, formal educational curriculum of the gifted in elementary mathematics is required which can stimulate all kinds of intelligences.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.37-48
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to investigate children's satisfaction with side dishes served in elementary school food service program in Seoul area. Two hundreds and thirty two children participated in this study through a questionnaire developed by the researchers. Conclusion drawn from the results of this study is that there seems no significant problems in school food service program since children are generally satisfied with food provided by school. However, minor problems such as hot and salty food, inappropriate temperature of warm dishes, and excessive amount of food, need to be improved through a newly developed menu, cooking method, and food distribution method.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.361-369
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• 1999

The purpose of this study is to investigate the current situation of children's milk intake at home and school in order to identify the better way to help children's milk intake. For this, 895 elementary students participated in this study through the questionnaire developed by researchers. Conclusions drawn from the results of this study are as follows : 1. Various kinds of milk should be provided for children both at home and school so that they can choose an appropriate milk for themselves. 2. Teachers at school should help children's milk intake not through forcing them but through appropriate educational approach. 3. Milk distribution system and ways of refrigeration of milk in school should be improved. 4. Nutrition education should be implemented for children so that they themselves choose milk as favorite beverage.

• The Journal of Pediatrics of Korean Medicine
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.37-53
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• 2009

Objectives Because allergic disease is currently prevalent and has tendency to become chronic, the purpose of this study is to examine the effects of allergic diseases on eating and living habits of children when they grow. Methods Questionnaire performed by 203 fourth grade elementary school children in Cheonan was analyzed. Results Disease group had low frequency of eating ramen, watching TV or web-surfing than that of normal group, but had higher frequency of eating meat, eating breakfast. Conclusions The allergic disease group had more desirable habits. It was assumed that parent's greater interest and devotion toward their children to cure their allergic disease was the reason for the children's desire habits.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.55-68
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• 1994

A survey analysis of home video games was carried out for 1,018 elementary school children. Children responded to a questionnaire consisting of sociodemographic variables, degree of game participation(frequency and mean time), control behavior(eg. resting during games, lightening interior), and physical symptoms(eg. eyestrain, headache, trembling, paralyses) during and/or after playing games. Statistical analysis was done by frequency, percentile, and chitest. The results showed that many children enjoyed video games frequently and played continually, that few children did control behavior during games. Main variables related to degree of game playing and control behavior were sex, game experience, parent's education, and mother's activity. In particular, the results implied that the level of physical symptoms during and/or after game differed by lighting factors.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.115-130
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• 2010

This study examined the effects of parenting behaviors and children's playfulness on emotional intelligence and the additional independent influence of playfulness on emotional intelligence, except for the effects of parenting behaviors. The subjects were 517 students in the $5^{th}$ and $6^{th}$ grades of 3 elementary schools in Seoul and Gyunggi-do. The data were analyzed by means of Pearson's correlation, simple and multiple regression, and hierarchical regression. Our findings indicated that parenting behaviors affected children`s emotional intelligence and in turn, children's playfulness affected their emotional intelligence. Moreover, the independent influence of playfulness on emotional intelligence was found to be an important factor for children in elementary school.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.39 no.10
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• pp.125-140
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to examine the children's money managment behaviors and to find out the factors affecting them. The data were collected from 507 elementary school students in Kimhae-city. Frequency distributions, Cronbach's Alpha, Pearson's correlation and regression analyses were used by SPSS Windows. The major findings from this study were as follows; (1) many children were provided with allowances by their mothers, knew their amount of allowances before they received them, and used allowance for taking snacks, (2) the factors affecting allowance planning were the source of allowances, parents' guidance before using allowances, satisfaction of the amount of allowances, the amount of watching TV, and parent-child communications about consumption, and (3) the source of allowances, recognition of the amount of allowances before children received them, parents' guidance before using allowances, parents' check after using allowances, and satisfaction of the amount of allowances had influence on the record of a cashbook and evaluation.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.31-37
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• 2011

This article presents program development and analysis of a creative robot school for elementary school at the local university. The purpose of opening the creative robot school is to give motivation to children for having interests in science and engineering at their young ages. The creative robot school program is developed by using facilities of a local university to spread scientific knowledge to young children in their communities to draw their interests in science as well as an engineering field for future careers. Since the robot system is a popular subject to draw attention of children and has a relation with Mechatronics Engineering, a program related with robots is selected for educating children. College students are also involved in helping children to build robots within a given time. Experiences and self-evaluations from the previously held creative robot schools at Chungnam National University(CNU) are presented to share with.