유아의 정서능력과 관련변인간의 구조 분석 = A Structural Analysis of Young Children`s Emotional Competence and Related Variables

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This study investigates the structure of young children`s emotional competence and related variables (young children`s temperament, young children`s cognitive ability, young children`s social competence, mother`s affective rearing behavior, mother`s positive expression, father`s positive expression, and teacher`s positive expression). Subjects for this study were 20 teachers, 236 five-year-old children, and their 472 parents (236 mothers and 236 fathers), all of whom were sampled from 20 classes of 17 public or private kindergartens in Chongju-si and Daejon-si. Data were analyzed with LISREL, a statistical program for structural equation modeling, to test the fit of the hypothesized structural model to the collected data. Results indicate that young children`s emotional competence is directly influenced by their social competence, temperament, and mother`s affective rearing behavior. At the same time, young children`s emotional competence directly affect their social competence. Young children`s temperament and cognitive ability as well as positive expressions of mother, father, and teacher indirectly affect emotional competence. In this study, the indirect effects of young children`s cognitive ability and father`s and teacher`s positive expressions were mediated by children`s social competence, while the indirect effects of young children`s temperament and their father`s positive expression were mediated by mother`s positive expression and their affective rearing behavior.