TV안보기 운동이 유아와 그 가족생활에 미친 영향 = The Effects of Turning off TV on the Lives of Young Children and Their Families

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study investigates the effects of turning off TV on the lives of young children and their families. Thirty-four 3-6 years old children and their families participated in NO-TV WEEK campaign initiated and directed by their nursery school teachers. The participants were requested not to watch TV for 5 days (from Monday to Friday) and to report their time spending at home. Teachers encouraged the participants to turn off TV during this week by holding various class activities and parent meetings, and by operating toy-landing library.
TV was used to turn on for about 3 hours and 38 minutes a day at the children's homes during weekdays and half of those times were watched by one of the family members. The children used to watch TV about 1 hour and 51 minutes a day. One third of the children's watching times was solitary watching. It was particularly no-ticeable that the three year-old children watched alone for half of their watching times and seventy percent of their watching times were out of parent supervision and/ or care. These results suggest that the parents, either employed or not, use TV as a babysitter and there is little verbal or social communication between children and their parents or other family members while they watch TV. Younger children of working mothers tend to become more solitary TV watchers.
Twenty-two children (73. 3 percent of the participated children) succeeded not to watch TV during this campaign week and 63. 3 percent of the mothers recorded that none of their family members watched TV during this week. Considering every child and his/her family reported that they tried not to watch TV except for some unescapable events or times, NO-TV WEEK campaign turned out to be so successful.
Analysis of the participants' time spending at home shows that NO-TV WEEK campaign increased parent-child interaction activities, such as talking and playing together, reading books to child, etc. It also enhanced husband-wife communication and shared household activities, and as a result, family relationship became more pleasant and more cohesive.
The implications of turning off TV to the family relationship and parental role and the importance of parent education / participation in early childhood education were discussed later.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 연구의 필요성 및 목적
• Ⅱ. 이론적 배경
• Ⅲ. 연구방법
• A. 연구 대상
• B. 연구 방법
• C. 연구 절차와 분석 방법
• Ⅳ. 연구결과
• 1. 유아기 가정의 TV 시청실태
• 2. 아동의 TV시청에 대한 부모의 견해와 지도방법
• 3. TV안보기 운동기간 중의 TV시청실태
• 4. TV를 안보는 대신 한 활동
• 5. TV안보기 운동이 끝난 뒤의 TV시청실태
• 6. TV안보기 운동에 대한 인식
• Ⅴ. 논의 및 결론