Children's Money Management Behaviors - Focused on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade Students of Elementary School in Kimhae city -

아동의 용돈관리에 관한 연구 - 김해시 초등학교 4, 5, 6학년을 대상으로 -

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.