The purpose of this study is to find to relationship among the children's peer status, friendship quality, and conflict resolution strategie in children's friendship.
The object of this study were 417 children in 5th grade of elementary school in Seo...
The purpose of this study is to find to relationship among the children's peer status, friendship quality, and conflict resolution strategie in children's friendship.
The object of this study were 417 children in 5th grade of elementary school in Seoul.
The measuring instruments used for study were peer nomination developed by Coie and Dodge(1983), Friendship Quality Scale developed by Lee and Koh(1999) and a Scale on Friendship Conflict Resolution Strategies (Rhee, Koh & Oh, 2000).
The Collected data was analyzed by SPSSWIN statistical program. The frequency and percentage were calculated to investigate the general characteristics of the subjects. One-Way analysis was performed to find relationship among the children's peer status, friendship quality Mutiple Regression was performend to find relationship among the children's peer status, friendship quality, and conflict resolution strategie in children's friendship.
The major results of this study are as follows,
First, concerning about peer status and friendship quality, pouplar group have a positive friendship but, rejected group have a conflictive friendship.
Second, while popular group used various strategy in conflict resolution, neglected group used evasive strategy.
Third, concerning about relation between quality of friendship and frienship conflict resolution strategy, while the group which has high degree of emotional stability, intimacy and human desire used negotiation, cooperation and concession strategy, the group with has low degree of cooperation and pleasure of friendship used evasion and away strategy.
Fourth, concerning the effect of friendship quality according to peer status which influence conflict resolution strategy between friendship, each popular, average, rejected and neglected group gas different quality of friendship and according the lower factor of friendship quality, each group has different conflict resolution strategy. Therefore I suggest that according to the peer status, arbitration program should be selected with propriety.