유아의 또래 유능성과 마음이론 및 개인화된 정서추론 능력에 관한 연구

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was conducted to find basic data about mind theory, personalized emotional inference ability
and peer competence of young children and to suggest an idea to the education field for young children.
The subjects were 26 children of age 5 and 21 children of age 4 who enrolled in a Kindergarten in city
J. Mind theory of children was examined by two tasks; movement of the location of the object and
altering the contents. The researchers used the tasks which were developed in pre research of Lee &
Won(2008) for measuring the children's emotional inference ability. The peer competence was measured by
the CBS(Child Behavior Scale) which was developed by Ladd & Profilet(1996) and advised and translated
by Song(1999). The results of this study indicated that there were significant differences between age 4
and 5 on the task of changing location and the personalized emotional inference ability. There are
correlations only between theory of mind and peer competence. The achievement of a task on changing
location has negative correlation with exclusion and hyper-distractibility. The results of this study indicated
that the various educational activities were needed for children to improve their abilities to understand the
minds of others.