The purpose of this study is to look at the relationship between 4 year-old children's aggressive behavior, temperament, and stress.
The major questions focused in this study are as follows :
1. What is the type of 4 year-old children's aggressive ...
The purpose of this study is to look at the relationship between 4 year-old children's aggressive behavior, temperament, and stress.
The major questions focused in this study are as follows :
1. What is the type of 4 year-old children's aggressive behavior?
2. What is the relationship between children's temperament and aggressive behavior?
3. What is the relationship between children's temperament type and aggressive behavior?
4. What is the relationship between children's stress and aggressive behavior?
To understand children's different aggressive behavior, Kim Su-hyang's list of aggressive behavior based on Thome(1977)'s classified list were revised for this study. Also, 45 children were surveyed and their parents were questionaired to test the children's temperament which was based on Thomas & Chess's NYLS( New York Longitudinal Study). Then I interviewed children using the questionaire of Parfenoff(1989) and his colleagues to study children's typical stress. The Parfenoff(1989) was translated and revised by Lee Jung-eun(1992).
The results of this study were as follows :
1. There were not any meaningful differences between the type of the 4 year-old children's aggressive behavior. However, there was higher objective aggressive behavior(M=6.56, SD=4.60) than personal aggressive behavior(M=4.98, SD=5.53) and language aggressive behavior(M=4.22, SD=4.81).
2. Regarding the relationship between the children's temperament and aggressive behavior, it was found that there was a meaningful difference between activity level and objective aggressive behavior(r=0.47. p<.01), between approach-withdrawl and objective aggressive behavior(r=0.46,p<.01), and between the threshold of responsiveness and object aggressive behavior(r=0.45, p<.01). That is to say, activity level, approach-withdrawl, threshold of responsiveness were the only factors of children's temperament influenced to only objective aggressive behavior. There were not any meaningful relationships with other aggressive behavior.
3. There were not any significant differences of aggressive behavior by children's temperament types. Mild-tempered children(M=6.33, SD=4.48) showed a higher objective aggressive behavior than specific-tempered children(M=4.45, SD=4.52). With regard to personal aggressive behavior, specific-tempered children(M=6.73, SD=8.04) had a higher score than mild-tempered children(M=5.25, SD=5.07). In regard of language aggressive behavior, specific-tempered children(M=5.55, SD=7.19) showed higher score than mild-tempered children(M=4.75, SD= 5.10).
4. Regarding the relationship between children's stress and aggressive behavior, only stress from self-control had a meaningful relationship with children's language aggressive behavior (r=0.43, p<.01). There were no relationships with other stress variables.