This research aims to analyze the relationship between a child's disposition and its perspective-taking ability and to investigate if there appears to be a difference owing to gender.
To achieve this objective, I suggest three problems of the researc...
This research aims to analyze the relationship between a child's disposition and its perspective-taking ability and to investigate if there appears to be a difference owing to gender.
To achieve this objective, I suggest three problems of the research:
1. Is any difference in perspective-taking ability owing to the child's disposition recognized by its parents?
2. Is there any difference in perspective-taking ability owing to the child's gender?
3. Does the difference in perspective-taking ability owing to the child's disposition vary due to gender?
The subjects of the study totaled 74 children including 38 of difficult disposition and 36 of mild disposition; they were selected by the Children's Temperament Questionnaire among 180 who attend kindergartens and the national elementary schools in Jeon-Ju.
The tools used in this study are in two branches: On the one hand, I used PQT originally designed by Thomas and Chess(1977) based on the NYL research, which was translated by Won Young-Mee and afterwards modified by Moon Jeong-Myoung(1998); on the other hand, I used the tool of perspective-taking ability by Kurdek and Rodgon(1975). For the analysis of data, I calculated the average and the standard deviation of each problem and used ANOVA to examine whether there is difference in perspective-taking ability and SPSS for the control of data statistics.
The results of the research are as follows:
As regards the difference in perspective-taking ability owing to the child's disposition recognized by parents, there appeared a significant difference between the group of difficult temper and that of mild temper.
As for the difference in perspective-taking ability in each gender, there existed a significant difference in their affective perspective-taking.
Finally, for perspective-taking ability owing to the child's disposition, there was no important difference.
To conclude, there is barely difference in perspective-taking ability owing to gender, but the difference exists owing to the child's disposition.