Children's anger event can be observed in any child care centers frequently and easily. Anger is a very nomal emotion. However, it can affect children's psychosocial development and physical security The Purpose of this study is to examine children's ...
Children's anger event can be observed in any child care centers frequently and easily. Anger is a very nomal emotion. However, it can affect children's psychosocial development and physical security The Purpose of this study is to examine children's anger in child care centers. For this purpose, some of concrete study problems was established as follows and answered.
First, which stimulus children get angry by, which expression modes children express their anger through, and which methods educare teachers cope on children's anger with? Second, are there any differences in the anger evoke stimulus or the explosion modes according to sex or age? Third, are there any differences in opposites' response according to the expression modes of anger children?
To solve these study ploblems, first place, 95 cases of children's anger event in 67 educare centers were recorded by process of the descriptive event sampling observation method. And then, these recorded materials were measured through the content classification system on subcategories respectively which developed in this study. At last, the measures of anger cases were analyzed by appropriate statistical methods according to the study ploblems. For example, frequencies and percentages of the measures of subcategories were coumpted respectively for the study ploblem Ⅰ. The X^2 -test were executed on the frequencies of measures for the study ploblem Ⅱ and Ⅲ.
The results of above analyses can be summarized as followes ;
First, children's anger event occured most frequently at the nurse room or the class room when teacher didn't watch children's activity.
Second, children's anger event occured most frequently when they were frustrated or inhibited aganst their need.
Third, when children got angry they expressed their anger through physical aggression most frequently.
Fourth, when any child expressed one's anger the most frequent response of opposite was the passive one.
Fifth, when children's anger event occured the most frequent response of teacher was the soft admonition
Sixth, there were no differences in the anger evoke stimulus or the expression modes according to sex or age.
Finally, there were some differences in opposites' response according to the expression modes of anger child