The purpose of this study is to search out if there is any difference in children's problem behaviors which occur in a kindergarten according to their sex and age and their mothers' discipline styles perceived by the teachers and the mothers apart.
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The purpose of this study is to search out if there is any difference in children's problem behaviors which occur in a kindergarten according to their sex and age and their mothers' discipline styles perceived by the teachers and the mothers apart.
The research sampled 46 for-year-old and 46 five-year-old as the subject. The subject of study also included their mothers and teachers.
The questionnaire devised by Behar and Straingfield(1974) to inspect behaviors and unadaptable behaviors of early children aged from 3 through 6 was used as the tool of study. In order to survey mothers' discipline styles, the questionnaire created by Hoffman and Saltzstein(1967) and then translated and revised by Kim, Young-suk(1975) and Kim, Dong-pa(2001) was applied.
In the procedure of study, a preliminary inspection was performed from April 1st, 2003 through April 8th, 2003 and then the regular inspection was executed from April 21th, 2003 through May 1st, 2003. The t-test of an independent group was employed with the use of SPSS/PC in the statistics and analysis of the data to find out any difference in children's problem behaviors affected by their sex and age. On the other hand, the distributed analysis of multiple variables was used to research any difference in children's problem behaviors influenced by mothers' discipline styles.
The conclusions of this study are as follows:
First, the statistics shows that boys are more aggressive and inattentive than girls in their problem behaviors.
Second, there is no meaningful difference in children's problem behaviors by age.
Third, in the children's problem behaviors affected by mothers' discipline styles, the values are high statistically in aggressive behaviors and inattentive ones except for anxiety behaviors when the teacher perceives that the mother's discipline style is authoritarian. However, children's problem behaviors caused by the mother's discipline styles perceived by the mother herself doesn't have any meaningful difference statistically.