This thesis is a study on the relation between a child's self-regulation and basic life habits. This study aims to impress the importance of self-regulation in instructing the formation of the basic life habits which become the foundation of character...
This thesis is a study on the relation between a child's self-regulation and basic life habits. This study aims to impress the importance of self-regulation in instructing the formation of the basic life habits which become the foundation of character education, and to investigate what significant relation between self-regulation and basic life habits is. Accordingly, in order to investigate the relation between self-regulation and basic life habits targeting the first grade elementary children, the study set up the following study subjects.
Study Subject 1. What is the relation between self-regulation and basic life habits?
1-1. What is the relation attention-focusing, the sub-area of self-regulation and basic life habits?
1-2. What is the relation attention-shifting, the sub-area of self-regulation and basic life habits?
1-3. What is the relation inhibitory control of behavior, the sub-area of self-regulation and basic life habits?
Study Subject 2. Is there a difference between gender and child's basic life habits controled by self-regulation?
2-1. Is there a difference between gender and sub-areas of child's basic life habits (cleanness, order, etiquette, self-restraint) controled by self-regulation?
2-2. Is there a difference between gender and child's basic life habits controled by sub-areas of self-regulation (attention-focusing, attention-shifting, inhibitory control of behavior)?
This study conducted the survey targeting home-room teachers of the first grade elementary children, by randomly sampling 4 elementary schools located in Seoul. From April 15, 2010 to April 30, 2010, the survey questionnaires on self-regulation and basic life habits were distributed to home-room teachers of the first grade who evaluated them. The number of the whole cases of the children who were the subjects of the study was 121, and survey questionnaires were collected and statistically processed, and after that, they were analyzed and discussed. For the self-regulation, among the research tools used in this research, the study used the items of Kim Ho Jung (2002), by revising them for the purpose of the study, who revised and translated the items that Eisenberg(1994; 1996) selected to measure the self-regulation, among the sub-tests of Child Behavior Question; CBQ that Rothbart(1996) developed as temperament test. For testing the degree of the formation of basic life habits, the study used the basic living habit rating scale for teachers developed National Institute of Education Testing Service in 1995. The analysis of data and its result process were conducted statistically by using SPSS(Statistical Package for the Social Science) ver 15.0; one-way-ANOVA was conducted to analyzed the relation between self-regulation and basic life habits; and two-way ANOVA was conducted to analyze the relation between self-regulation depending on the gender and basic life habits.
The results of discussion by using these methods are as follows.
First, as the result of the relation between self-regulation and basic life habits, the study found that there is a significant difference between self-regulation and child's basic life habits (cleanness, order, etiquette, self-restraint). In the result of analyzing self-regulation as high, middle and low, in the groups where self-regulation is high, the basic life habits were shown highest and in the groups where self-regulation is low, the basic life habits were shown lowest. Also, looking over each sub-area of self-regulation, as attention-focusing, attention-shifting and inhibitory control of behavior got higher, cleanness, order, etiquette, and self-restraint were shown higher, so the study found that there is a significant relation between sub-areas of self-regulation and basic life habits.
Second, as the result of whether there is a difference between gender and a child's basic life habits controled by self-regulation, the effect of interaction emerged. That is, depending on gender, there was a difference in basic life habits and as the self-regulation got higher, basic life habits became higher. In addition, self-regulation was shown different depending on gender. Looking over it in details, there emerged the effect of interaction in cleanness, order, and etiquette, the sub-areas of basic life habits. Female children showed higher points in average in basic life habits than male children, and there was a difference depending on gender. Also, male children showed a big change of basic life habits controled by self-regulation. However, in self-restraint, there was not a significant difference in the effect of interaction. As the result of analyzing the difference between gender and child's basic life habits controled by sub-areas of self-regulation (attention-focusing, attention-shifting, inhibitory control of behavior), the effect of interaction was shown. Looking it more specifically, in attention-shifting and inhibitory control of behavior, female children had higher basic life habits than male children, but male children showed a bigger change of basic life habits controled by self-regulation. As attention-focusing and inhibitory control of behavior got higher, basic life habits were shown higher, but in attention-focusing, there was no effect of interaction.
As such results, the study found that the relation between self-regulation and basic life habits is high. That is, as self-regulation gets higher, basic life habits are well formed, and there is a difference in basic life habits depending on gender and self-regulation. Therefore, in instructing basic life habits, the importance of self-regulation should be recognized and it is desirable to seek for the appropriate and diverse teaching methods in consideration of gender.