• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.289-300
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• 2013

The aims of this study are to investigate the differences of the preschoolers' executive function and verbal ability according to their age, and to identify whether the preschoolers' executive function is related to their verbal ability. The participants in this study are 151 children, ages 3-and 5-years old from five child-care centers located in a middle-income region of Seoul. Statistical methods used for the data analysis are the frequencies, means, standard deviations, an independent t-test, and Pearson correlation. The major findings are as follows. First, an age difference is found for children's executive function. The 5-year-olds are more likely to succeed on tasks of executive function than the 3-year-olds. Also, age difference is found for children's verbal ability. The 5-year-olds perform better on tests of verbal ability than the 3-year-olds. Last, the 3-year-olds' and 5-year-olds' executive function is related to their verbal ability. Inhibition and cognitive flexibility are significantly correlated with verbal ability. These results suggest that preschoolers' executive function and verbal ability develop during preschool age. These results also suggest that preschoolers' executive function is related to their verbal ability.

• 아동학회지
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.147-164
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• 2015

The purpose of the present study was to examine the trajectories of children's negative emotionality and mother's social parenting over a 3-year period (for children at ages 1-3) and to then analyze the bidirectional effects between the two variables. The longitudinal casual relationship among children's negative emotionality, mother's social parenting and peer interaction at age 3 was also examined. The data, taken from the Panel Study on Korean Children, were analyzed using latent growth modeling. The results were as follows. First, the level of negative emotionality was seen to have increased by 2 years of age, whereas the level of mother's social parenting decreased by this point. Second, higher initial negative emotionality predicted decreases in mother's social parenting, However, higher initial mother's social parenting predicted increases in children's negative emotionality. The initial level and slope of mothers' positive parenting predicted peer interaction at age 3, while only the slope of negative emotionality predicted peer interaction. These findings suggest that temperament and parenting predict changes in each other and peer interaction.

• 아동학회지
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.135-153
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to investigate false belief understanding and justification reasoning according to information of reality amongst children aged 3, 4 and 5. Children aged 3 to 5 years (N = 176) participated in this study. Each child was interviewed individually and responded to questions designed to measure his/her false belief understanding. Every child responded to the false belief task under two different information conditions of reality(reality known vs reality unknown). For more specific analysis, children's reasoning responses were also recorded. The major findings of this study are as follows. Children could understand false belief more easily under reality unknown conditions. Specifically, the influences of information conditions were crucial to 3-year-olds but not to 4- and 5-year-olds. Although 3 year olds were able to avoid the systematical errors inherent in the false belief task, they still did not understand the false belief itself. This study provides specific aspects of false belief understanding and its relevance to general changes in cognitive development.

• 아동학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.117-126
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• 2017

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate young children's nonsymbolic magnitude comparison ability according to ratio limit and task condition. Methods: The participants included 40 3-year-old children, 42 4-year-old children, and 41 5-year-old children recruited from 4 childcare centers located in Seoul, Korea. All magnitude comparison tasks were composed of image material tasks and concrete material tasks. In addition, each magnitude comparison task varied with the ratio of the two quantities; 0.5 ratio, 0.67 ratio, 0.75 ratio. Results and Conclusion: The results revealed that 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children could perform nonsymbolic magnitude comparison tasks without learning experiences. Also, 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children could perform concrete material tasks better than image material tasks in nonsymbolic magnitude comparison tasks. Furthermore, children's performance on nonsymbolic magnitude comparison tasks indicated the ratio signature of the approximate number system. Children have a degree of numerical capacity prior to formal mathematics instruction. Also, children were influenced by task conditions or sense stimulus when they processed numerical information. Furthermore, the approximate number system can be used in understanding the ordinality of number.

• 아동학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.49-69
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• 2014

The purposes of this study were (1) to investigate children's moral judgment, justification reasoning in terms of aggressive behavior, and (2) it examined the relationship to false belief understanding. Children aged between 3 to 5 years(N = 120) participated in this study. Each child was interviewed individually and responded questions designed to measure his/her moral judgment and justification reasoning and false belief understanding. The 12 pictorial tasks consisted of selfish and altruistic intentions and three different types of acts (physical, verbal, relational) as responses to aggressive behavior. The results indicated that the kind of moral judgment used was different according to the intention and the types of acts. There were significant differences in children's justification reasoning according to the age and the types of acts. There was a positive relationship between false belief understanding and moral judgment, justification reasoning. This paper also provided a detailed discussion of the results and recommendations in the context of more general cognitive developmental changes.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.39-60
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• 2019

Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyze the Nuri-curriculum daycare programs for 3, 4, and 5-year-olds based on the Child Welfare Act. Methods: Data were analyzed according to the analysis criteria for 195 children's safety education programs in the Nuri-Program. The analyzed data used frequency and percentages. Results: First, life safety education was the most important element. And after looking at the contents category of the Child Welfare Act, the results in order are as follows: "raffic safety"; "Health and hygiene management, including the prevention of contagious diseases and drug abuse"; "Safety measures against disasters"; "Precaution and prevention of disappearance and abduction"; and "Prevention of sexual violence and child abuse." Second, there were many safety education activities in accordance to chronological age (3-to 5-years old). Health and safety by subject, season, and life tools were more frequent. By type of activity, conversation and language activity, fairy tales, and plays were the most common activities. Conclusion/Implications: This suggests the need to systematically plan safety education content through a program that links safety-related laws and elements related to the Nuri curriculum in child care centers.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.293-302
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of traditional fairy tales verbal expression education on 3-year-old children's social skills. The subjects of this study were 50 3-year-old children at four different private daycare centers in the Kyungnam province. 25 preschoolers were selected as an experimental group, and the others were selected as a control group. The collected data were analyzed by the statistical package SPSS by t- test, MANOVA and ANOVA. The findings of the study were as follows: First, differences between the experimental group and the control group in social skills were significant. There were differences between the experimental group and the control group in problem solving and self-confidence. There was no difference in emotional expression and sense of order. Second, the Cohen's effect size shows that traditional fairy tales verbal expression education effects children's problem solving and self-confidence.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제47권7호
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• pp.117-128
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of ADHD based on estimation of ADHD rating scale between mother-teacher and teacher-teacher. In total, 491 mothers and 23 teachers rated 689 5-year-old children on the K-ADHDDS. Descriptive statistics, in addition to independent and paired samples t-test were performed. Overall, the percentages of children with ADHD on the rating scale were 3% in combined type, 7.1-8.6% in predominately hyperactive-impulsive type, and 4.2% in predominately inattentive type. Boys tended to show greater tendency of ADHD than girls’: Overall, ADHD tendency in boys was 1.3 times greater than girls. Specially, 2.3 times more for hyperactivity, 1.4 times more for impulsivity, and 3.4 more for inattention. The correlation between mothers’ and teachers’ ratings were .35 for total, .40 for hyperactivity, .24 for impulsivity, and .28 for inattention, and there were no significant differences. Alternatively teacher and teacher ratings were .71 for total, .70 for hyperactivity, .70 for impulsivity, and .67 for inattention, and there were significant differences in inattention subscale(p < .01).

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2004

섭생, 수면, 활동과 같이 생존에 필수 요소 뿐 아니라 인간은 사회적 동물로서 타인과의 애착관계 역시 몹시 중요하다. 사회적 애착(social attachment)은 인간에게 중요하기도 하지만 연구하기가 힘든 분야 중 하나이다. 이 분야의 선도적 연구자인 Harry Harlow는 부모-자녀, 친구, 부부관계의 세 가지의 다른 애착 행동체계가 존재한다고 보았다. 이러한 행동 패턴에는 여러 가지 감각 기관, 복잡한 운동반응, 그리고 기억, 사회적 인지, 동기 등의 인지과정이 포함된다. 또한 John Bowlby는 부모-자녀간의 초기 애착관계의 중요성을 정신과 영역에서 강조하였다. 사회적 애착에 관련된 신경학적 구조, 기능에 대한 연구는 주로 포유류가 아닌 동물들에 대한 연구가 주를 이루나, 최근에는 원숭이에 대한 약리학적 연구와 인간의 뇌영상 연구 결과들이 이 분야에 대한 새로운 개념을 첨가하고 있다. 본 고에서는 애착에 대한 신경생물학적 이론에 대해 자세히 기술하고자 하며, 크게 1) 유아-부모 애착, 부모-유아 애착에 대한 신경생물학적 연구 분야, 2) 애착에 대한 동물 실험 연구, 3) 애착관계의 심각한 단절이 발생하는 maltreatment/deprivation 상태에서 인간에게 어떠한 행동적, 신경생물학적 변화가 초래되는지에 대한 세 분야로 나누어 기술하고자 한다. 아직 이러한 연구 결과들이 임상적 측면과 직접적 관련을 짓기는 한계가 있으나, 향후 사회적 애착관계의 문제가 심각한 정신병리를 연구하고 치료하는 분야에도 응용될 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.217-231
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• 2021

이 연구는 어린이집 교사의 소통능력이 집단응집력, 공감능력과 소통만족에 미치는 영향에 관하여 살펴보았다. 이 연구를 위해 198명의 어린이집 보육교사를 대상으로 소통능력, 집단응집력, 공감능력 및 소통만족에 대한 설문조사를 실시하였다. 어린이집 운영 주체에 따라 국공립, 민간, 가정 등 3개 집단으로 조사 대상의 소속을 구분하였다. 연구조사 결과, 첫째, 국공립, 민간, 가정 등 세 집단 모두에서 어린이집 교사의 소통능력이 집단응집력에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 어린이집 교사의 소통능력은 집단응집력에 긍정적 영향을 주어서 조직의 목표를 원활하게 수행하는 데 도움을 주는 것으로 보인다. 둘째, 국공립, 민간, 가정 등 모든 집단에서 어린이집 보육교사의 소통능력이 역시 공감능력에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 어린이집 교사의 소통능력이 높으면 영·유아와 학부모, 그리고 타 교직원을 공감하고 이해하는 능력도 높을 것이다. 셋째, 조사한 세 집단 모두에서 어린이집 보육교사의 소통능력이 소통만족에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 보육교사의 소통능력이 높을 때 소통의 대상자인 영·유아, 학부모, 타 교직원들이 보육교사와의 소통에 만족하는 경향이 높음을 알 수 있다.