• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.593-605
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of sense of humor and music on the resilience of elementary school students with general characteristics. The subject were 265 children who were 4th to 6th grade elementary students who lived in Seoul, Gyeongi - do and Gangwon - do. The subject reported their sense of humor, sense of music and resilience on three separate questionnaires. The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and t-test, ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis test. The results showed an increase in resilience related to the higher income status, young aged mothers and birth order. The elementary students with a sense of humor and music and resilience showed a significant positive correlation with each other. The results of this study can be utilized as a source in the development of programs applying sense of humor and music to improve the resilience of elementary school students.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.23 no.3 s.75
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• pp.93-102
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• 2005

This study entered the relationship between family strengths and ego-resilience of school-aged children. The Family Strengths Scale is composed of four factors; family commitment, family communication, family values and family crisis coping strategies. The participants were 392 mothers with school-aged children. The main results were as follows; First, the degree of family strengths was generally high. Family commitment was the highest and family values was the lowest among the four factors. Second, the degree of ego-resilience of school-aged children reported by the mothers was also generally high. Finally, two factors of family strengths, that are, family communication and family values, had positive influences on ego-resilience of children.. The implications of this study were discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.44 no.11
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• pp.149-159
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• 2006

This study examined the relationship between social supports and the ego-resilience of school-aged children. The Social Supports Scale is composed of three factors: social supports from family, friend, and teacher. The subjects were 438 school-aged children. The main results were as follows. First, the level of social supports was generally high, with the highest level being from family. Second, the level of ego-resilience was also generally high. Finally, all social supports from family, friend, and teacher had positive influences on ego-resilience. The most influential factor was social supports from friend. The implications of these results were discussed.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.17-27
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate relations among father attachment/mother attachment, self-competence and ego-resiliency in school aged children. Path analysis was utilized to examine relations among variables. The subjects were 701 school children attended in elementary schools in Daegu and Gyeongbuk Province. The collected data were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling(SEM), by the use of SPSS 19.0. and AMOS 19.0 Results indicate that (1) Both of father attachment and mother attachment have not direct effect on ego-resiliency but self-competence has direct effect on ego-resiliency. (2) Father attachment and mother attachment influence ego-resiliency in paths through self-competence. And father attachment influence more on self-competence and ego-resiliency than mother attachment.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.45-57
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationships among different variables related to well-being. 748 elementary school students residing in Gumi-City, Pohang-City and Ulsan-City in Korea completed questionnaires about well-being, ego-resilience, self-esteem, basic psychological needs and parent attachment perceived by children. A variance-covariance matrix of this sample was analyzed using AMOS 19.0, and the maximum likelihood minimization function. The goodness of fit was evaluated via SRMR, RMSEA with a 90% confidence interval, CFI, and TLI. The results were as follows: First, children's ego-resilience, self-esteem, basic psychological needs and parent attachment were all found to have a significant direct effect on children's well-being. Second, children's self-esteem, basic psychological needs and parent attachment had a direct effect on children's ego-resilience. Third, children's basic psychological needs and parent attachment had a direct effect on children's self-esteem. Fourth, parent attachment had a direct effect on children's basic psychological needs.

• The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.237-248
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• 2015

This study examines the effects of late school-aged children's perception of their mother's responses to negative emotions and their ego resilience on their life satisfaction. Data were collected from 390 fifth- and sixth-graders residing in Kwangju, Korea. With the data, frequency, percentages, and Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ were calculated. Pearson's product moment correlation coefficients and hierarchical regression analyses were also considered. The effects of various variables on life satisfaction were analyzed, and according to the results, vitality had the greatest effect on life satisfaction, followed by vitality, optimism, emotional coaching responses, interpersonal relationships, emotion-reducing responses, emotion control, and the material employment status, in that order. The study contributes to the literature by providing additional insights into the mother's desirable responses to children's negative emotions and highlighting the importance of positive ego resilience in children's life satisfaction through the elucidation of effects of late school-aged children's perception of their mother's responses to negative emotions and their ego resilience on their life satisfaction.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.94-102
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• 2001

Bullying has recently become a serious social problem in Korean society. Bullying, which is defined as a phenomenon that one particular student is intensively and continuously harassed or ostracized by a group of students, is apt to produce harmful effects on bullies as well as victims. Bullying has many causes including those originated from the personality of victims and bullies. This study is designed to investigate the difference in personality trait between victims, bullies, victims/bullies, and neither. The subjects of this study were 215(115 male and 100 female) 6th-grade students in the primary school in Seoul. Questionnares were distributed to the students and their carers. The student carers were also asked to answer the questions for a survey called the Korean Personality Invertory for Children(KPI-C). SPSS was used for the statistical analysis of the collected test information；ANOVA, post hoc scheffe test, and T-test were used to analyze the differences between the tested groups. The result of the study is as follows. 1) The victims, bullies, victims/bullies and neither totaled respectively 11(5.1%), 56(26.0%), 11(5.1%) and 137(63.7%). 115 were male and 100 were female. 2) The frequency of victimized is as follows：1 time is 15(7.0%), 2 times is 4(1.9%) and more than 3 times is 3(1.4%). The frequency of bullying is as follows；1 time is 40(18.6%), 2 times is 17 (7.9%) and more than 3 times is 10(4.7%). 3) The differences between froups in KPI-C test is as follows. (1) The ESR(p=.00) scale was significantly lower in the victims group than in the neither group and the HPR(p=.00) scale and PSY(p<.01) scale were significantly higher in the former than in the latter. (2) The ESR(p=.00) scale was significantly lower in the victims/bullies group than in the neither group and the SOM(p=.00) scale and HPR(p=.00) scale were significantly higher in the formaer than in the latter. (3) The SOC(p=.00) scale, PSY(p<.01) scale and AUT(p=.00) scale were significantly higher in the victims group than in the bullies group. (4) There is statistically no difference between the bullies group and the neither group. To conclusion, Victims need to learn how to cope with harsh situations, or they will have to face difficulties in relationships. Even after they experience bullying, they may not realize why they have been bullied, or speak out for themselves.