Journal of Families and Better Life (가정과삶의질연구)

Korean Home Management Association (가정과삶의질학회)
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Impact on Interpersonal Relationship Skills of Children: Social Demographic Variables, Marital Perspective-taking Ability, Children Managing Responses and Emotional Intelligence

유아의 대인관계형성능력에 영향을 미치는 변인 연구: 사회 인구학적 변인, 부부조망수용능력, 유아 대처반응 및 정서지능을 중심으로

  • Jang, Yun-Hee (Dept. of Child Development and Family Studies, The Catholic Univ. of Korea) ;
  • Moon, Hyuk-Jun (Dept. of Child Development and Family Studies, The Catholic Univ. of Korea)
  • 장윤희 (가톨릭대학교 아동가족학 전공) ;
  • 문혁준 (가톨릭대학교 아동학과)
  • Received : 2012.03.15
  • Accepted : 2012.06.18
  • Published : 2012.06.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the variable factors influencing children's interpersonal relationship skills and analyze the effects of marital perspective-taking ability, managing responses of young children and emotional intelligence on the interpersonal relationship skills of children. The study subjects were young children aged from four to seven attending private kindergartens or public day care centers in Seoul or Kyeongki-do and their mothers. The results are as follows : 1) First, marital perspective-taking abilities were indicated higher on boys than girls, children in a full-day program than those in a half-day program, university graduates or higher degree holders than collage graduates, single-income families than double-income families. In case of managing responses of young children, boys showed high avoidance of offensive disposition and girls showed high emotions dissipation. Also, young children in a full-day program showed non-responses on managing responses but high responses on emotions dissipation, and children of mothers with bachelor's degree or higher education showed support and children from double-income family showed no responses in high. Moreover, emotional intelligence of young children in a full-day program was higher than that of children in a half-day program, interpersonal relationship skills were showed higher on girls than boys, half-day children than full-day ones, children from single-income family than those from double-income family. 2) Meaningful relationships were indicated between these variables; managing responses of young children, emotional intelligence and interpersonal relationship skills by partly showing correlations. 3) Children in a half-day program with low in emotions dissipation, non-responses, offensive dispositional managing responses but high on Avoid, emotional intelligence showed high interpersonal relationship skills.

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