아동의 정서 행동 문제의 일관성 연구 = The Study of Stability in Children s Emotional and Behavioural Problems

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was devised to examine the stability in the emotional and behavioural problems of Korean primary school children. One hundred and seventy-five children were assessed by teachers using the Children`s Behaviour Questionnaire (CBQ) over 2 years and 8 months. In case of the stability of problems in the subjects as a whole, among the problem group (46 children) followed from Study One, 27 children persisted in having problems in Study Two. The stability was therefore 58.7%. The correlation (Pearson`s r) was .34 (p<.001) between the CBQ scores of Study One and Study Two. Considering the sex in relation to the consistency of emotional and behavioural problems, the stability for boys was 60.5% and girls 33.3%, so that boys were twice as likely as girls to persist in having problems. The correlation coefficients between the two measurements were .31 (p<.001) for boys and .09 (p>.05) for girls. The stability in nuclear families was 61.1% and in extended families 50%. That is, the children from nuclear families persisted in having problems rather more than those from extended families. The correlation coefficients between the two measurements were .42 (p<.001) in nuclear families and .04 (p>.05) in extended families. Considering the type of emotional and behavioural problems, the stability of emotional problems was 25%. Behavioural problems persisted in 61.1% of the children. This finding indicated that behavioural problems persisted much more than emotional problems. The correlation coefficient of emotional problem between Study One and Two was .16 (p<.05) and of behavioural problem .33 (p<.001).