This thesis attempts to identify the general tendency of rule-violating behaviors according to grader and gender and investigate the relationship among the nature of rules, guiltiness or shame, others' seeing or not, etc. To achieve this aim more effe...
This thesis attempts to identify the general tendency of rule-violating behaviors according to grader and gender and investigate the relationship among the nature of rules, guiltiness or shame, others' seeing or not, etc. To achieve this aim more effectively, the following sub-questions were asked and inquired. (1) Is there any difference in rule-violating behaviors according to grader and gender of elementary students? (2) Is there any difference in feeling guiltiness or shame according to grader, gender, nature of rules, etc? (3) Is there any difference in effecting rule-violating behaviors according to the degree of shame or guiltiness, others' seeing or not, etc?
The subjects were 313 graders of 2 elementary schools who have been sampled in Changwon city at random. Originally the numbers of them were 325, but there remained 313 graders except the students who didn't answer even one question sincerely. The 313 subjects were consisted of second-graders(56 males and 46 females), fourth-graders( 50 males and 54 females) and sixth-graders(63 males and 44 females). Rule-violating behaviors are divided into the following two: (ⅰ) moral rule-violating behaviors which mean morally bad behaviors such as stealing, beating, bullying, etc. (ⅱ) conventional rule-violating behaviors which mean socially unacceptable behaviors such as not bowing to adults, noising in the classroom, doing not homework, etc. Two research instruments were constructed in this thesis by the help of some professionals. These are the questions of the above (1), (2), (3). But these instruments were included in the one questionnaire.
Frequencies, percentage, mean, and standard deviation were calculated. And t test, F test and Pearson product moment correlation were mainly applied to the statistical analyses.
The findings of this thesis may be summarized as follows:
(1) Males more than females, 6 graders more than 2 graders violate the rules more frequently, esp. the conventional rules rather than the moral rules. And the more violate the moral rules, the more the conventional rules.
(2) Elementary students feel the sense of guiltiness rather than the sense of shame, esp. in violating the conventional rules rather than the moral rules. And males more than females, 6 graders more than 2 graders feel the sense of guiltiness. There is no difference among grades, but some difference between males and females in the sense of guiltiness. Whereas there is no difference between males and females, but some difference among grades in the sense of shame.
(3) There is no effect of shame on the degree of rule-violating behaviors of elementary students. And there is no difference between others' seeing and others' not seeing in the sense of shame. However the more elementary students feel guilty, the less they violate the rules.