The modern society is suffering from social conflict and exclusion problems caused by moral disinterestedness, selfishness, severance between people and alienation. Further, this is leading to problems in community of the society over individual probl...
The modern society is suffering from social conflict and exclusion problems caused by moral disinterestedness, selfishness, severance between people and alienation. Further, this is leading to problems in community of the society over individual problem. Contemplation on ‘altruism’ and ‘morality’, which are for harmonization of the society, is required especially for the society with fierce competition. Such elements are essentials for and individual to set healthy social relationship and are cores by which education of humanism pursue. Accordingly, higher importances would be put on altruism and solicitude.
Solicitude maybe the ultimate reality of life and represents existence of human. Further, this includes sympathy, appropriate knowledge for understanding the others and active behavior for practice the knowledge. Therefore, a person needs to learn how to practice solicitude felt by emotion through recognition of the idea through feedback of the virtuous circle from early childhood.
However, there have been variety of preceding studies carried out on development of sociality and pro-social behavior of children but the caring behavior of them yet. Especially, there have been very few of studies conducted on the factors affect caring behavior of children. This paper, in this light, has focused on the variables which affect caring behavior of early childhood. Among them, the most important element should be the influence of home environment for improving comprehensive sociability including caring behavior. Therefore, we have focused on the influences of variables related to home environment on caring behavior of early childhood.
Accordingly, this paper suggests structural equation model which takes in to account family strongness, mother-child interaction and stimulated home environment which are expected to affect such behavior to examine the causal relationships between the selected variables and this is to figure out educational approach for child caring education centers and home to improve children’s caring behavior.
In doing so, the correlations and structural model between family strongness, mother-child interaction, stimulated home environment and caring behavior of 568 children those who are between 4~5 years old and go to nursery (kindergarten) in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do have been analyzed. Through this, we have found the influences of family strongness, mother-child interaction, stimulated home environment on caring behavior of children. The results can be summarized as follows.
Firstly, the family strongness, among the other variables, has been found to affect caring behavior of children mostly. Therefore, a child from strong family is more likely to be more solicitude in the society. Accordingly, it would be important to improve the overall family strongness including positive communication, ties between the family members, capability of the family to sort out a problem together, and sharing values and goals.
Secondly, it has been found that a child from family with good mother-child interaction and good quality of stimulated home environment has been found to show better caring behavior. Therefore, there needs to be positive interaction with mother and efforts to reduce negative interaction along with improvements in both physical and psychological home environments.
Thirdly, family strongness has been found to affect directly and indirectly the children's caring behavior through mother-child interaction and stimulated home environment. Especially, the mother-child interaction and stimulated home environment have been found to have significant level of positive influence on such behavior. Therefore, family strongness can be seen as the basis which affect overall quality of parent-child relationship. Accordingly, efforts from all members of the family, quality improvement of family strongness and demonstration of the family members including parents on caring behavior for education for children on such behavior.
Finally, there needs to be various programs developed taking into account the variables which affect caring behavior of early childhood by utilizing improvement mechanism for such behavior of children which have been found from this research.