The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between young children's playfulness, fantasy-making predisposition and behavioral self-regulation. The subjects of the research were 240 children aged 5. To measure, playfulness, fantasy-makin...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between young children's playfulness, fantasy-making predisposition and behavioral self-regulation. The subjects of the research were 240 children aged 5. To measure, playfulness, fantasy-making predisposition and behavioral self-regulation, 'Children's Playfulness Scale', 'Children's Fantasy Inventory', 'Teacher ratings of behavioral self-regulation' were used respectively. The analyses of data are Pearson correlation and regression analyses type of stepwise.
The findings were as follows:
First, young children's playfulness had positive correlation with behavioral self-regulation. Secondly, young children's acting like hero, a subscale of the fantasy-making predisposition, had negative correlated with self-control subscale of the behavioral self-regulation. Thirdly, young children's humor subscale of the playfulness was positively 책related with acting like hero from fantasy-making predisposition. Forthly, it was found that social spontaneous, expression of joy, physical spontaneous and humor explained 47.6% of young children's behavioral self-regulation.
It was found that social spontaneous, physical spontaneous, humor, expression of joy and cognitive spontaneous explained 40.5% of self-control. While cognitive spontaneous, social spontaneous and expressive of joy explained 72% of self-assertion.