BIO-PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDY OF EMOTIONAL BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS IN KOREAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN (I) - An Epidemiological Study of Emotional Behavioral Problems in Korean Elementary School Children by Rutter's Questionnaire -

국민학교아동의 정서행동문제에 대한 생물${\cdot}$정신사회학적 연구 (I) - Rutter의 아동행동평가표에 의한 국민학교아동의 정서행동문제조사 -

The survey of emotional behavioral problems in elementary school children provide baseline data for understanding, treating and preventing emotional behavioral problems in children. Since children can show different behaviors at home and at school, parents' information alone can lead to underestimate severity and prevalence rate of emotional behavioral problems in children. Thus, the author investigated the different the pattern of emotional behavioral problems in elementary school children by various socio-enviornmental factors in urban(Seoul) and rural area, by employing both parents' and teachers' questionnaire. The results were as follows ; Analysis of Rotter's questionnaire, in which high scores mean more serious emotional behavioral problems than low scores. The mean total problems scores for rural elementary school children were higher than those of Seoul elementary school children, and boys showed higher scores than girls. In relation to grade, mena total problems scores diminished as grade increased up to 4th or 5th, and then relatively high score for the 6th grade. Parent's education had significant effect on the total problem scores, that children of less educated parents showed higher score than children of more educated parents. Likewise the highest score was observed in children of unemployed parents. These results demonstrated that emotional behavioral children are related to various socio-environment factors.

Rutter의 부모용과 교사용 아동행동평가표를 사용해 서울과 농촌 국민학생을 대상으로 정서행동문제의 빈도와 사회환경적 변인이 정서행동문제에 미치는 영향을 알아보았다. 그 결과, 여러 사회환경적 변인에 따른 정서행동문제의 총점평균은, 지역별로는 농촌이 서울보다 높았으며, 성별로는 남자가 여자에 비해 높았다. 학년별로는 4학년이나 5학년에서 감소 후 다시 증가하는 양상을 보였다 부모교육 정도별로는 저학력군이 고학력군에 비해 아동의 정서행동문제 총점평균이 높았다. 아버지 직업별로는 무직인 경우가 직업을 가진 경우에 비해 높았다. 부모중 어느 한쪽에 결손이 있는 경우가 부모 생존한 경우에 비해 정서 행동문제 총점평균이 높았다. 이로써 국민학생의 정서행동문제는 여러 사회환경적 변인에 영향받고 있음을 알 수 있었다.