The purpose of this study is to examine personality types of young children and to determine if there is any relationship of the personality with the playfulness of young children's.
For this purpose, personality tests were conducted to 5-year old K...
The purpose of this study is to examine personality types of young children and to determine if there is any relationship of the personality with the playfulness of young children's.
For this purpose, personality tests were conducted to 5-year old Kindergarten children according to the Korean version of MMTIC. Their playfulness was also measured by Barnett's playfulness measuring instrument(1991). As a result, most children turned out to have intuitive, feeling and perceiving personalities as personality indicators. U-Band indicators were also revealed as a type of indecisive personality.
In the difference of playfulness according to children's personality the preferred indicator of thinking-feeling type was found to be associated with psychological functional type of personality. A significant relationship was shown between the perceptive spontaneity and expression of joyfulness.
These findings indicated that INFP and ENFP are dominant types of personality in 5-year old children, but the personality tended to be indecisive may continue to change and, thus, their playfulness shall be understood on the basis of functional types of personality.