• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.83-96
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• 2001

This study examined the links among parents' interaction styles, their children's representational models of parents and peers, and children's peer acceptance and friendship quality. Forty-seven fourth grade children and their parents (47 mothers and 47 fathers) were observed during discussion interaction, and, one year later, 119 children (63 boys, 56 girls), including the original sample, were interviewed to assess representational models and peer competence. Parents' interaction styles predicted children's representations of parents, moderating the effect of each parent's style, children's representations of peers mediated the relations between the representational models of mothers and their peer acceptance.

• 한국노년학
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.1297-1315
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• 2008

Elderly males in retirement experiencing a change in their social status and role in the family are likely to develop negative perception toward the elderly and the elderly life. The purpose of this study is to examine how the experiences of age discrimination affect elderly male's perception and his attitude towards the elderly life, and to verify the mediation effects of the family and peer relations, which would necessitate the need for social welfare intervention. 215 participants, the elderly men registered at the welfare centers in Seoul Metropolitan area, participated in this research utilizing the structural equation modeling to verify the mediation effect. The findings are as follows. First, the elderly males's experiences of age discrimination is found not to have a significant effect on their perception towards the elderly. Second, the elderly males' discrimination experience has a significant effect on their attitude towards the elderly life. Third, it is found out that family function and peer relationship has complete mediation effect on the perception on the elderly experiencing discrimination in their perception towards the elderly life. Fourth, the family function and peer relationship has partial mediation effect on the elderly male experiencing discrimination in their attitude toward their life after retirement. This shows that more efforts are needed to reduce discrimination towards the elderly, and that strong family function and peer relations help the elderly to develop more positive perception and attitude towards the elderly life. In conclusion, it proposes an institutional approach towards the problem as well as increased support for elderly welfare service including family counseling intended to strengthen family function and alternative family, and more active social activities aimed at strengthening of peer relationship.

• Journal of School Social Work
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• v.45
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• pp.209-230
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• 2019

The purpose of the study was to verify the moderated mediating effect of out-of-home care and peer attachment when the depression influences adolescent self-esteem. For this purpose, the data were obtained from the Panel Study on Korean Children in Out-of-home care(PSKCOC) and Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey(KCYPS). The results using SPSS PROCESS MACRO method were as follows. First, it was identified that peer attachment significantly mediated the relationship between depression and self-esteem. Second, in the influence of depression on self-esteem, the moderating effect of whether or not adolescents are in out-of-home care emerged. The self-esteem of adolescents in out-of-home care were more affected by depression than that of general adolescents. Third, in terms of the effect of peer attachment on self-esteem, there was no statistical difference between adolescents in out-of-home care and general adolescents. In sum, it was verified that the effect of depression on self-esteem was different depending on peer attachment. It suggests the practice and policy implications for social welfare through paying attention to commonality and difference between adolescents in out-of-home care and general adolescents.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.361-370
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of self-esteem in the relationship between bicultural acceptance attitude and peer relationship of multicultural adolescents, and to examine the moderated mediating effect of multicultural acceptability. To this end, the data of 1,197 adolescents who participated in the 8th year survey(2018) of the 'Multicultural Adolescent Panel Study' surveyed by the National Youth Policy Institute were analyzed. As a result of the analysis, first, it was found that the bicultural acceptance attitude of multicultural adolescents had a significant positive effect on self-esteem. Second, it was found that while bicultural acceptance attitude of multicultural adolescents had a significant effect on peer relationship, self-esteem partially mediated these relationships. Third, it was found that multicultural acceptability moderating the indirect effect that affects peer relationship through self-esteem as a mediating bicultural acceptance attitude of multicultural adolescents. Based on the results of this study, a support plan was sought to positively form and maintain the peer relationship of multicultural adolescents, and the implications, limitations, and suggestions for subsequent studies of this study were presented.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.691-705
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• 2018

Purpose of this study was to improve the emotional intelligence of high school students in adolescence, to solve the difficulties of relationships, to solve the maladjustment problems, and to provide practical data that can be used to prevent their deviant behaviors by identifying the effect of peer emotional coaching program on emotional intelligence in high school students. This study consisted of the experimental group of 14 students and the control group of 14 students from 28 students who voluntarily wanted to participate in the peer emotional coaching program from April 17 to May 29, 2017 in S high school located in G city. The peer emotional coaching program was applied for the experimental group over 12 sessions, and the pre and post test of both groups were performed simultaneously. A corresponding sample T test was performed for the collected data that were analyzed using SPSS 20.0 for Windows. As a result, the emotional awareness of the experimental group was found to have a significant effect on the peer emotional coaching program, but the empathy and the emotion regulation did not show any significant effect. It was found that the peer emotional coaching program was a medium that could affect the emotional awareness of high school students. With the results of this study, we suggested a way to improve the emotional awareness for high school students.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.352-370
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to explore how Peer Instruction can continuously help improve third-grade students' participation and their ability to debate in Science classes. There were multiple-choice questions relating to the discussions and debating class and Peer Instruction of the entire third grade Science curriculum which had been applied for six months. Also, after looking into the class participation and the debating ability, there was a degree of increase. As a result, there were five areas in class participation which are class preparation, class activity, expressing oneself, class expansion, and class dedication; all have statistically significant effects on the six areas of the discussion skill: logic, analytical skill, listening skill, receptiveness, regularity, and initiative. As it shows, both of these areas show a significant statistical effect on the application of Peer Instruction and confirmed to have a positive influence on the change in the participation and the discussion skills.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.43 no.10 s.212
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• pp.103-114
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• 2005

This study analyzed the effect of parent-child communication and peer relationship on children's internet addiction. The subjects were 642 elementary school students living in Daejeon city. Cronbach's $\alpha$, t-test, ANOVA, and Duncan's test were employed in analyzing the data by using SPSS 10.0. The findings of this study were as follows First, the boys were more addicted to internet use than the girls, as were the children of less educated parents. The children of parents with professional careers were less addicted to the internet. The children who perceived their school achievements as low were more addicted to the internet. Second, the children who spent more time daily, longer time at once and more frequently per weekly internet use were more addicted. Third, internet addiction was influenced tv parent-child communication and peer relationship. Boys who had more problem communications with their parents less open communication with their mother and a lower level of peer support were more addicted to the internet. The problem of communication with their mother and conflict in their peer relationship had more influence on the internet addiction of girls.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.51-66
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• 2010

This study examined the effects of parental attachment and peer attachment in elementary school children upon early adolescent delinquency. The participants were 2,844 taken from data from the Korean Youth Panel Survey (KYPS). Data from secondary questionnaires data on parent and peer attachment, problem behavior, delinquent peers, and delinquency were used for this study. Data were analyzed by means of a Structural Equation Model using AMOS 5.0. Our results indicated that, firstly, parental attachment was negatively related to problem behavior for both male and female adolescents, whereas peer attachment was positively related to problem behavior only for males, but not for females. Secondly, problem behavior in childhood has a direct effect on adolescent delinquency, which also can be indirectly mediated by contact with delinquent peers. In conclusion, the path model from parental and peer attachment in early childhood to adolescent delinquency was supported only in the case of males.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.121-142
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• 2021

Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effect of teacher-child emotional, verbal, and behavioral interactions on the relationship between teacher playfulness and children's peer abilities. Methods: The research method used the questionnaire method to collect data on 420 children aged 3-5 years old, targeting 108 homeroom teachers working at early childhood education institutions located in Seoul and Gyeonggi area. The collected data was analyzed using the IBM SPSS 23.0 statistical program and the PROCESS macro of Hayes (2013). Results: This study confirmed that teachers' verbal, emotional, and physical interactions are closely related to young children's peer competence. In addition, it was confirmed that the teacher's playability is an important variable that affects not only the emotional, verbal, and physical interactions between the teacher and the infant, but also the peer competence of young children. Conclusion/Implications: The results of this study have significance as basic data that suggests that it is necessary to improve the playability of teachers and increase the quality level of the multifaceted aspects of teacher-infant interaction in order to support young children's peer competence.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Child Welfare
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• no.60
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• pp.1-24
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• 2017

This study aimed to examine whether neglect influences sense of community and whether such a relationship is moderated by peer attachment. For this purpose, this study employed multi variate regression analyses using the sixth-panel data (2015) of fourth-grade elementary-school children from the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey. Key findings were as follows: First, neglect was found to have negative impacts on sense of community. In addition, we found that peer attachment moderated the relationship between neglect and sense of community. This finding suggests that peer relationship and attachment protects some portion of negative impacts of neglect on sense of community. This study concludes with policy and practice implications to improve the well-being of adolescents.