Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between chikld's participational degrees in householdworks and his personality traits. The guestionnaires used were two scales. One was the measurement of child's participational degrees in householdworks which related food clothing shelter. especially the shelter was included household everyworks besides food and clothing because of child's young age. The other was the measurement of child's personaliyt traits such as General Activity Dominance Emotional Stability Impulsiveness Reflectiveness and Sociability standardized by Korean Testing Center which is pedagogical pschology institute in Seoul University The subjects of this research were 345 4th graders of elementary schools living in Seoul. The major findings of this study can be summarized as follows. 1. There were not significant differences in mother's work mother's education and the residence type excepting the distinction of sex according to the degrees of c ild's participation in householdworks. 2. The child's personality traits were revealed significant differences according to the degrees of child's participation in householdworks. 3 The higher the degrees of child's participation in ioseholdworks are the higher the scores of his personality traits such as Reflectiveness Sociability Dominance and General Activity are and the lower the scores of Impulsiveness are.