This study is designed to see if role-play activities through picture books can improve the pro-social behavior of children such as self-control ability of emotion, ability to form relations with others and adaptability to Day Care Center. In addition...
This study is designed to see if role-play activities through picture books can improve the pro-social behavior of children such as self-control ability of emotion, ability to form relations with others and adaptability to Day Care Center. In addition, this aimed to help educational institutes enhance pro-social behavior of children by providing basic data on role-play activities through picture books. Research questions are as follows.
First, how does role-play activities through picture books affect pro-social behavior of children?
Second, is there any difference of children's pro-social behaviors between sexes?
Research object includes 32 children of three-year-old from A Day Care Centerin K-gu, Seoul and P Day Care Center in S-gu, Seoul. These two centers have similar environmental factors that can affect study results.
During eight weeks of study, experimental group conducted role-play activities through picture books, while comparison group shared talks through picture books. Against children of each group, pro-social behavior test was conducted before and after the test of eight weeks to figure out how children enhanced their pro-social behavior from the difference in behavior test scores of pre-test and post-test.
Pro-social behavior of children was measured by pro-social test tool revised and adapted from 'Skill Situation Measure'(1990) of McGinnis and Goldstein through preliminary test by Lee Won Young, Park Chan Ok and Noh Young Hee(1993). The test tool consists of 15 questions, which is categorized into three such as self-control ability of emotion, ability to form relations with others and adaptability to Day Care Center, having five questions children can easily understand and respond to for each category. Collected data from the test was applied and analyzed through T verification and the result is as follows.
First, role-play activities through picture books helped improve pro-social behavior among children. The pro-social behavior test score of children from experimental group was higher than ones from comparison group's children. As a result, sub-factor of pro-social behavior such as self-control ability of emotion, ability to form relations with others and adaptability to Day Care Center showed higher level after role-play activities were conducted.
Second, the effect of role-play activities through picture books and verbal sharing activities on pro-social behavior of children showed little difference between sexes of children.