유아의 성,연령,기질 및 가정환경자극과 유아교육기관적응과의 관계 = A Study of Children`s Adjustment to Child-Care Centers Based upon gender age, temperament and home environment

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examines the relationship between children`s ecological backgrounds and their adjustment to child-care centers. To this end, a variety of different levels of ecological variables were considered, including gender, age, temperament and home environment. The subjectsof this study were 318 parents and their 3to4 year-old children who were attending child-care centers in Pusan. The Temperament Rating Scale (TRS) developed by Chun (1993) was used to measure temperament. Home environment data were obtained by using HOME (Lee and Jang, 1982). In addition, a modified version of the Adjustment to School Scale (Won, 1990) was used to evaluate the degree of the children`s adjustment to child-care centers. The results of the study reveal significant differences in adjustment to the centers according to gender, age, temperament and home environment. Gender differences were found to have greater significance than the other variables.