The purpose of this study was to clarify the fact that children's socio-demographic variables, leadership and self-regulation might affect to children's peer play behavior.
The subject of this study was 336 kids aged between five and seven in 4 cl...
The purpose of this study was to clarify the fact that children's socio-demographic variables, leadership and self-regulation might affect to children's peer play behavior.
The subject of this study was 336 kids aged between five and seven in 4 classes of private kindergarten and 8 classes of private preschool located in the capital region.
As a research material, teacher's PIPPS(Penn Interactive Peer Play Scale) initially modified by Fantuzzo and his colleagues was applied to understand children's peer play behaviors and it was remodified by Hae-young Choi and Hae-young Shin in 2008 through a research into validity and reliability on Korean children.
To examine children's leadership, teacher's testing material for children designed by Che-ho Lee and In-sue Choi (2008) was used. Parents' self-regulation test for children invented by Jeong-ran Lee and Ok-seung Yang (2003) and adjusted to teacher's regular questions by Lee, Hak-sun ( 2007) was used to investigate children's self-regulation.
SPSS WIN 17.0 statistic program was employed for computing the frequency and percentage. To comprehend general character of children, the program was also used and it produced Cronbache's α with verifying the reliability of study material. T-test was applied to distinguish the different points of peer play behaviors, self-regulation , and leadership based on socio-demographic variables: sex, birth order, and the amount of time for kids staying in kindergarten. Also correlation analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between the sub-variations mentioned above : leadership, self-regulation, peer play behavior. Hierarchic multiple regression analysis was applied to inquire the biggest reasons for variations; influence the sub-variation of peer play behaviors.
Below is the result of this study.
First, as a result of the differences in peer play behaviors, self-regulation, and leadership based on socio-demographic variables (sex, birth order, amount of time staying in kindergarten) girls indicated higher point than boys in leadership, self-regulation, and play interaction section. Otherwise, boys showed higher response in play disruption and the lack of play disconnection.
Regarding of the birth order, it did not affect meaningfully to the sub-domain of leadership, self-regulation competence, peer play behaviors
Related to the time children staying in kindergarten, children who spent in a kindergarten for half-day showed higher reaction in behavioral self-control and emotional capacity than children staying in kindergarten for full day. On the other hand, full-time children's self-esteem was higher than half-time ones.
Second, children who are emotionally sensitive and also know how to lead their peer group, as well as sociable and available to control their behavior themselves presented more active in peer-interaction than others.
In addition, boys who were not able to manage or to inspect their behavior and had insensitive emotion demonstrated high tendency to play disconnection. Children participated in full-day program with having difficulties in self-regulation or inspecting their behavior properly but had a strong leadership and insensitive showed play disruption highly.