This study examines the perceived social support, the relationship between social support and self-efficacy and self-regulation in low income children.
Subjects in this study consisted of 157 children who are attending community child care centers in ...
This study examines the perceived social support, the relationship between social support and self-efficacy and self-regulation in low income children.
Subjects in this study consisted of 157 children who are attending community child care centers in Seoul. Social Support scale, NESE(New General Self-Efficacy), and Self-Regulation scale were used. The data were analyzed by percentiles, mean, t-test, correlation and multiple regression.
In conclusion, the overall perception level of social support by the low income children was a little high. Among the subelements of social support, they showed lower perception scores than the average of the entire social support in the affection support, which would work to meet the basic social and affective needs of human beings, and in the material support, which could be used as practical resources when necessary.
The boys were weaker in social support than the girls. Those low income children raised in a single father family had considerably low perception of social support than those raised by other family groups, which implies that there is need for careful considerations and active intervention.
Social support had positive relationships with self-efficacy and self-regulation ability in all the subareas. Low income children thought they received much social support, the more self-efficacy and self-regulation they showed, which means that the children's internal capacity was reinforced accordingly. Among the subelements, the biggest influences came from the valuation support.
That is, the more praises, recognition of talents, respect for personality, fair evaluation, increase of value, and respect for opinions the low income children received, the more self-confident they became. And to elaborate, the more they believed that they were respected, praised, or supported for their fair evaluations for right or wrong by somebody, the more they were able to regulate their behavior and the more capabilities they had to meet the social and situational needs and be patient. This study suggest the importance of the role of Social support, ideal ways to improve Self efficacy and regulation of low income children.