This study aimed to understand the influence of Taekwondo instructors' instruction types on the personality development of elementary school trainees by largely dividing their instruction type into an absolutistic type, democratic type, and faire type...
This study aimed to understand the influence of Taekwondo instructors' instruction types on the personality development of elementary school trainees by largely dividing their instruction type into an absolutistic type, democratic type, and faire type. As currently, children occupy the high rate of trainees in Taekwondo studio, the instructors' influence has been extended to diverse areas. Thus, the necessity and objective of this study are to provide basic data for useful information about instructors' attitude to maximize the personality development of trainees by analyzing the influence of instruction types on the personality development of trainees.
This study set up the background variables(demographic characteristics of trainees) as sex and degree of training(geup & poom), the independent variable as instructors' instruction type, and the dependent variable as six sub-factors of personality development.
Selecting five Taekwondo studios out of ones registered in Gwangju Taekwondo Association, the questionnaires were distributed to total 221 targets through the stratified cluster random sampling of 40 people from each group. The collected data was analyzed through frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, mean, standard deviation, t-test, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The conclusion of this study is like below.
First, the elementary school trainees valued the democratic type the highest among instructors' instruction types while the faire and absolutistic types were valued relatively low. Regarding variables of the personality development of trainees, self-esteem was the highest, which showed the priority cognizing the personality development of elementary school trainees.
Second, regarding the cognition of instruction types in accordance with trainees' sex, there were significant differences in the faire type while female trainees' cognition was higher than male trainees'. In case of the cognition of the personality development variables, there were significant differences in confidence and self-esteem while female trainees' cognition of both variables was higher than male trainees'.
Third, in the results of comparing the cognition of instruction types depending on lower grades and upper grades, differences in each variable of instruction types were not significant. Regarding the personality development variables, the lower grades showed higher etiquettes than the upper grades.
Fourth, the degree of training was divided into trainees with geup certificate and trainees with poom certificate. Each variable of instruction types did not have significant differences in the degree of training. However, the personality development showed significant differences in self-esteem while trainees with poom certificate were higher than trainees with geup certificate.
Fifth, the influence factors of each variable of the personality development and instruction types were analyzed. In the results, among instruction types, the democratic type had positive influence on confidence, self-esteem, patience, and etiquette while the absolutistic type had negative influence on concentration. The leadership was not significantly influenced by any of the instruction types.
Thus, this study has established the basic foundation of relations between Taekwondo instructors' instruction types and personality development. Therefore, when the communication method following the results of this study is applied to the actual site, there would be more mutually positive influence on instructing Taekwondo trainees.