In the infant education field, emotional education and evaluation as well as the education for intellectual development have long been emphasized. If the purpose of infant's education is to develop whole man, it is required to support forming and deve...
In the infant education field, emotional education and evaluation as well as the education for intellectual development have long been emphasized. If the purpose of infant's education is to develop whole man, it is required to support forming and developing balanced emotion.
The purpose of this study is to analyze variables - family settings, parents' nursing attitude and pattern and infant's disposition - that have effect on development of infant's Emotional Intelligence, and to prepare a basic resources serving for the same development.
The subjects were 528 parents, whose children were attending 5 kindergarten located in Southern and Northern Cholla-Province, and 1 kindergarten located in Taegu Metropolitan City. Measuring tools are as follows. Used for infant's Emotional intelligence test was Emotional Intelligence Check List(1977), which was produced by Lee, Byong-Nae. Used for parents' nursing attitude test were Lee, Won-Young's adaptation(l980)of Schaefer's MBRI(1959) that he used in his article, "A Study on the relation between mother's view of children education and nursing attitude and infant's growth", and Kim, Young-Sook's Questionnaires for Parents(l988) that she re-produced referring to Oh, Kee-Sun's Parents-Children Relation Diagnosis Questionnaires for Parents. Used for infant's disposition test was CBQ for Parent(Rutter, 1967) which was produced for diagnosing infant's emotional and behavioral problems.
Statistical package SAS was used to investigate the relation between parent's nursing attitude and infant's Emotional intelligence development.
MANOVA was used to analyze the relation between infant's disposition and infant's Emotional Intelligence development, designating the former as independent variable and the latter as dependent variable. The results of the analysis are as follows :
1. Infant's sentimental and intellectual development and parents' nursing attitude were correlated significantly.
First, concerning parents' nursing attitude, parents' affectionate nursing attitude was found to be correlated very statically with most factors of infant's sentimental and intellectual development, regardless of infant's sex. Concerning infant's age, parents' affectionate nursing attitude was found to be correlated very statically with 4, 5, and 6 years old infant's Emotional Intelligence development, except 3 years old infant.
Second, the existence or absence of mother's vocation was found to have no effect on the relation between parents' nursing attitude and infant's Emotional Intelligence development.
Third, parents' academic attainments was found to have some effect on the relation between parents' nursing attitude and infant's Emotional Intelligence development.
Fourth, nursing attitude(parents, or others) was found to have a partial effect on the relation between parents' nursing attitude and infant's Emotional Intelligence development. When nurser was grandparents, or facilities, and according to the quantity of time that non-parents put in nursing, parents' nursing attitude was correlated statistically with infant's Emotional Intelligence development.
2. Infant's disposition and Infant's Emotional Intelligence development were found to be correlated significantly.