• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.279-298
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to explore the different perceptions of relationship with significant others of multicultural children with PTSD symptoms. To select the subjects for this study, Korean version of Greenwald and Rubin's CROPS(Child Report of Post-traumatic Symptoms) was administered to 97 multicultural children and 110 Korean children. Among them 20 multicultural children and 22 Korean children were determined as children with PTSD symptoms. SCT was administrated to 42 children and the content analysis of 42 SCTs was undertaken. The following results are the major findings of this research: a) multicultural children perceived their mothers, fathers, friends, and teachers more negatively than Korean children; b) only 55% of multicultural children had positive self-images while almost Korean children had positive self-images; c) multicultural children expressed psychological trauma from peers in school while Korean children expressed psychological trauma from parents at home. Lastly, we discussed implications of the results, limitations and suggestions for future study.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.254-261
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• 2011

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the characteristics of disfluency in 3~5 year-old multicultural family children(MFC). 24 children(12 MFC, 12 Korean monolingual children, KMC with the same chronological age and language age) participated in this study. The experimental tasks consisted of story retelling tasks(SRT) and picture description tasks(PDT). In all the tasks, the scores of total disfluency of the MFC were significantly higher than those of the KMC. In all the tasks, the frequency of abnormal disfluency of the MFC were significantly higher than those of the KMC and the speech rates of the MFC were significantly lower than those of the KMC. The disfluency observed in MFC indicates that language ability influences on their disfluencies and fluency support of MFC is an important factor in general language support.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.51-72
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to compare the school readiness between children in low-income families and children in non-low-income families. In particular, it examined the influence of family's income levels child's age and gender upon children's school readiness. The subjects were 184 children that were 4~5 years. The collected data were analysed using t-tests, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, and Scheffe test. The results showed that the school readiness of children from non-low-income families's was higher than children from low-income families. The school readiness was explained significantly by the interaction effect of children's age and gender. However, there was no difference in children's school readiness according to the participation in Dream Start. The findings suggest that the level of income is the key factor in differences of children's school readiness. Finally, the importance of social support of low-income children and development of effective Dream Start programs was discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.1-13
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to examine differences in emotional intelligence, social competence and school life satisfaction between institutionalized and home reared children. In total, 584 grade 4, 5, and 6 students were used for this study, 305 of which were institutionalized and 279 home reared. Collected data were subjected to descriptive and comparative statistical analysis. Significant differences were found in emotional intelligence, social competence and school life satisfaction between institutionalized and home reared children. Positive correlations were established among emotional intelligence, social competence and school life satisfaction for both groups of children.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.233-253
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• 2017

This study focused on differences in factors of subjective well-being between children who are raised at their own homes and those raised at the residential institutions. This study used two kinds of data sets, one from survey on subjective well-being of children in residential care supported by National Research Foundation of Korea, the other from survey on children's subjective well-being in Korea conducted by Social welfare research center in Seoul National University and Save the Children Korea. The results are as follows; There are no significant difference statistically between children raised at their own homes and children raised at residential institutions in children's subjective well-being, satisfaction with him/herself, and satisfaction with school. However, there is higher satisfaction with family in children raised at their own homes. On the other hand, there is higher satisfaction with community in children raised at residential institutions. There are difference factors effect on children's subjective well-being between the two groups. Most of all, satisfaction with him/herself is very important factor to improve children's subjective well-being in residential care.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.205-216
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• 2007

Instruments used in this study of social support effects on the behavioral problems of children raised by their grandparents compared with children raised by their parents were the revised Social Support Appraisal (Dubow & Ulman 1989) and the revised Children Behavior Criteria (Achenbach, 1991). Results showed that, compared with children raised by their parents, children raised by their grandparents engaged in (1) more excessive, nervous and immature behavior; (2) were aware of less support of friends and family (3) When given a higher degree of support from friends they engaged more excessive and aggressive behavior and (4) They displayed counter-buffering effects, namely immature behavior when given higher family support.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.507-528
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• 2013

The study examined the mental representation of children in foster care through the MacArthur Story Stem Battery (MSSB) and reviewed difference between children in foster care and typical children in terms of mental representation. Subjects of the study included a total of 50 children: 25 children (11 boys and 14 girls), aged from 5 to 8, in foster care in Gyeonggi Province, and 25 typical children (11 boys and 14 girls), aged from 5 to 8, who lived in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. The research findings are summarized as follows: First, in terms of mental representation, children in foster care showed less subjects of empathic relations and more subjects of disorganized aggression than typical children. Second, children in foster care showed lower coherence mental representation than typical children. Finally, children in foster care were more likely to fail in emotional regulation than typical children in mental representation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Child Welfare
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• no.56
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• pp.221-251
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine whether single-parent family status affects children's school adjustment through children's self-care and media exposure. In addition, the study investigated the mediating effects of self-protection and media exposure of children by analyzing whether single-parent family status has effects on school adjustment through self-care and media exposure of children. For this purpose, we used data of 1,916 students in the 4th grade who participated in the 4th year of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS). The results of the structural equation modeling showed that single-parent family environment not only had direct effects on the school adjustment, but also had effects on school adjustment through self-care of children. In addition, it was revealed that self-care of children influenced school adjustment through media exposure. One of the covariates, monthly income of households, did not affect the level of children's self-care. This result draws attention to the problems of the structural deficit of single-parent families. Therefore, political measures that correspond to the structural characteristics and special needs of single-parent families, along with their current financial support, are needed to improve the level of school adjustment of children from single-parent families.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for the Gifted Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.31-31
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the SOHE Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.70-70
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• 2003

세대간 통합 프로그램은 1980년대 이래로 외국 사회노년학 분야뿐만 아니라 아동학분야에서 점차 관심이 높아지는 주제이다. 이러한 프로그램은 양 세대간의 올바른 이해를 통하여 긍정적인 관계향상을 도모한다는 분명한 목표를 갖는다 일반적으로 아동은 노인에 대하여 매우 부정적인 태도를 가지며, 노화과정에 대하여도 두려움을 느낀다고 보고되고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 세대간 통합 프로그램이 아동의 노인인식에 영향을 미치는지를 조사하고자 하였다.