This study intended to investigate if young children's coping response to negative emotion and emotional intelligence were differed by sex distinction, order of birth, numbers of brothers and sisters, mother's school career and job existence, whether ...
This study intended to investigate if young children's coping response to negative emotion and emotional intelligence were differed by sex distinction, order of birth, numbers of brothers and sisters, mother's school career and job existence, whether their grandparents lived together or not, and investigate the correlation of young children's coping response and emotional intelligence in the negative emotional situation.
I chose a kindergarten in Pusan and one in Masan, a children's house located in Kyungnam Kimhae and made 167 mothers whose children were 5 years old subjects of this study. The instrument of this study was a questionnaire about young children's coping response to negative emotion which was made by Eisbenberg, Fabes, Bernawing, Karbon, Poulin, Hanish(1993) and adapted and modified by Kim Heejung(1994). The subfactors of Young children's coping response were blowing off emotion, no-response, aggressive behaviour, escaping response, problem-solving coping and response to ask support. I used Salovey andMayer's(1990, 1996) model of emotional intelligence and emotional intelligence test for 5 year old children which were made by Lee Mungrae, based on Goleman's(1995) indication and Sarni's(1990) theory for measuring young children's emotional intelligence. The subfactors of emotional intelligence were self-perception ability, self-control ability, ability of perceiving others, ability of controlling others.
The result of this study were as follows;
First, according to young children's sex distinction, among young children's copong response to negative emotion aggressive behaviour, problem-solving coping, asking support showed significant difference, blowing off emotion, no-response, escaping response did not show significant difference.
Among young children's coping response to negative emotion according to mother's school career, aggressive behaviour, problem-solving coping, asking support showed significant difference, blowing off emotion, no-response, escaping response did not show significant difference.
Young children's coping response to negative emotion were not significantly different according to birth order, numbers of brothers and sisters, mother's job existence, whether their living together with grandparents.
Second, young children's emotional intelligence were differed according to young children's sex distinction, numbers of brothers and sisters, mother's school career, and were not differed according to birth order, mother's job existence, whether their living together with grandparents.
Third, aggressive behaviour among coping response to negative emotion had negative correlation with young children's emotional intelligence, and problem-solving coping and behaviour to ask support had positive correlation with young children's emotional intelligence. Young children's no-response of coping response had ***unsuitable correlation with ability of perceiving others. Blowing off emotion, escaping response of coping response to negative emotion did not show significant correlation with young children's emotional intelligence.
Affirmative coping response to negative emotion had positive correlation with young children's emotional intelligence and there was un suitable correlation that the more negative coping response they showed, the lower emotional intelligence they had.