유아의 과외참여 현황에 따른 스트레스 정도 분석 = The relationship of the children's stress with the quantity of extracurricular activities

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to examine the current status of extracurricular activities among young children, and investigate the relationship between child stress and extracurricular activities. The following research questions have been established for this purpose.
1. What is the current status of extracurricular activities in which young children participate?
2. How do those activities relate to their parents' background?
3. How is the level of those activities related to the level of child stress?
This study was conducted with thirty 5-year-old children and 139 parents from a private kindergarten in Daejon. The children were divided into two groups based on levels of extracurricular activities: 15 children representing the upper 20 percent of children involved in many extracurricular activities were placed in group 1, and 15 children representing the lower 20% who are involved in one or zero extracurricular activity were placed in group 2. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, most children are involved in extracurricular activities, and most children participate in three kinds of activities. The most common type of activity is home study using drill books. Second, the area of extracurricular activities that are most preferred and received the highest expectation are in the verbal area. Third, there were differences in degree of fulfillment between the upper and lower groups. Differences in fulfillment levels are directly proportioned to observed differences in the child's level of stress. The children in the upper group with more than six kinds of extracurricular activities get more stressed than those in the lower group with one or no such activity.