A Study on Children's Home Environment and Peer Group Environment and Their Self-perceived Competence

유아 및 아동의 가정환경 및 또래환경과 역량지각

The purpose of this study was to investigate the children's self-perceived competence(in cognitive, social and physical competence domains)depending on age, sex, home environmental variables and peer group environmental variables. The subjects of were 772 children at age five, seven, nine, eleven and thirteen attending kindergartens, elementary schools and junior high schools, and 772 their mothers in Seoul. The main results of this study were summerized as follows; 1. Children's cognitive, sosial and physical self-perceived competences were significantly lower with increasing age.