Experiences of physical activities for young children should be given during early childhood as having rapid physical development. This study aims to analyze the effects of cooperative movement activities in the kindergarten to young children's prosoc...
Experiences of physical activities for young children should be given during early childhood as having rapid physical development. This study aims to analyze the effects of cooperative movement activities in the kindergarten to young children's prosocial behavior and emotional intelligence and to determine whether cooperative movement activities could be employed as a teaching method in order to enhance young children's social ability. The research questions of this study are as follows :
1. To what extent, do cooperative movement activities influence young children's prosocial behaviors?
2. To what extent, do cooperative movement activities influence young children's emotional intelligence?
The experimental group is composed of 7 young children aged 5 and 9 young children aged 4 in Y Kindergarten in Elementary school in Wan Do County, Chonnam Province while the control group consists of 25 young children aged 5 and 1 aged 4 in W Kindergarten in Elementary school in the same area. In the experimental stage, cooperative movement activities are employed 15 times with the experiment group for five weeks (three times per week) while movement activities are employed by teachers with the control groups.
The test of prosocial behaviors are employed: The evaluation is based on the Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire; PBQ) developed by Weir and Duveen(1881) whereas the latter is in relation with the Modified Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire: Mod-PBQ) developed by Doescher(1986) that it was translated by Eee Hae Ju (1996). The test of emotional intelligence is based on The Evaluation of Emotional Intelligence developed by Kim, Kyung Hai (1998).
This study is carried out in the order of preliminary test, preliminary experiment, training of teachers, pre-test, experimentation for five weeks, post-test. Pre-test covers both the control and experiment groups. In the experimental stage, cooperative movement activities are employed 15 times with the experiment group for five weeks (three times per week) while movement activities are employed by teachers with the control group. The collected data are analyzed using SPSS to obtain the result of t-test.
The results indicated that: first, the score of understanding of cooperative movement activities influence young children's prosocial behaviors for the experiment group is significantly higher than that of the control group. Inaddition, the scores of the sub-items in cooperative movement activities influence young children's prosocial behaviors such as control of personal emotion, human relations, adaptation to the kindergarten, etc. are significantly higher than is the case for the control group. Second, there is a significantly higher score of emotional intelligence in the experiment group of cooperative movement activities than in the control group. In addition, the scores of the sub-items in prosocial behaviors such as helping each other, sharing stuffs, etc. are significantly higher than is the case for the control group.
It is concluded that cooperative movement activities influence young children's prosocial behaviors and emotional intelligence. Accordingly, cooperative movement activities could be employed in the field of young children education as a means to improve young children's prosocial behaviors and emotional intelligence.