The purpose of this study was to understand about loneliness of the children who suffered from troubles by a group of the age that is maladjustment to children's psychological, social environment, and investigate the quality of peer relationship and t...
The purpose of this study was to understand about loneliness of the children who suffered from troubles by a group of the age that is maladjustment to children's psychological, social environment, and investigate the quality of peer relationship and the effect of copying strategy as a main cause to mediate these relationships. Moreover this study intends to offer information about developing programs that can mediate to the children who were victimized by the peer group, in an early stage.
The subjects were the children in 5, 6 from elementary school in Bucheon. This study applies victimization scale that adapted from Schwarts, Farver Chang and Lee-shin(2002) to measure the damage of affliction by peer group, Friendship Qualities Scale(Bukowski Hoza and Boivin, 1994) to measure the quality of relationship between friends, a standard of Sandstrom(2004) as copying strategy, Loneliness&Social Dissatisfaction Scale(Asher and Wheeler, 1985) to measure the loneliness.
The obtained data was analyzed by phrased revolution analysis, using SPSS 12.0 program, and the results of this study were as follow.
The damage of affliction by the group of school age effect on children's loneliness, so that the children who have an experience of affliction perceive more loneliness. In this point when I observed the mediating effect by the quality of friendship between boys or girls, and copying strategy, I can find the effect by these things but it was distinguished from the second factor of mutation.
If the boys share companion, or they maintain the strong closeness, and they show low feeling of loneliness about the damage of affliction by the age of group. On the other hand, when the girls experienced improving companion through sharing times and helped by friends, the friendship of the solution of conflict, they show low feeling of loneliness about the damage of afflictions.
In case of copying strategy, when the connection of loneliness and damage of affliction was high, both boy and girl use more ruminating copying, In the rest copying strategies I can find the difference between the gender. When the boys use less denial copying and active copying, the girls use more aggressive copying, denial copying and active copying, they have low-level loneliness about the experience of affliction of peer group.
With these results, we know that the children's high quality relationship experiences with friends in class are the main cause of protecting themselves from psychological, social maladjustment as mitigating the loneliness by the damage of confliction and the level of loneliness can controlled by the case of copying strategy used in the situation of confliction from the peer group. Especially the case of copying strategy, when we consider that although we use the same strategy there was an opposite effect of mediation, we need a practice of proper copying strategy according to the gender, not the same education.