This study aims at looking into correlations among young children’s emotional intelligence, pro-social behavior, and teacher-child relationship, and effects of young children’s emotional intelligence, pro-social behavior and teacher-child relation...
This study aims at looking into correlations among young children’s emotional intelligence, pro-social behavior, and teacher-child relationship, and effects of young children’s emotional intelligence, pro-social behavior and teacher-child relationship on their peer competence.
Research issues have been setting up according to its purpose are same as follows. First, what relations are existed between young children’s emotional intelligence, pro-social behavior, teacher-child relationship and peer competence? Second, what influences are affected to peer competence from children’s emotional intelligence, pro-social behavior, teacher-child relationship having been recognized by young children’s teachers?
The object of this study was young children of 3,4,5 year-old in full in child care center located in D City, and a questionnaire survey was carried out to 350 teachers, and 290 sample data among them was used for its research and analysis. There are several measurement tools used for the survey; the test tool developed by Lee Byungrae(1998) was used for the young children’s emotional intelligence part; and the pro-social behavior testing scale, developed by Kim Youngok(2003) and reconstituted by Seo Sojung(2006) was used for the young children’s pro-social behavior part. Also a questionnaire written by Lee Jinsook(2001) who translated, corrected, and supplemented Pianta(1991)’s test tool, was used for measuring teacher-child relationship. And the peer competence scale developed by Park Juhui and Lee Eunhae(2001) was used for measuring peer competence. Next are several programs used for researching and analyzing; Pearson correlation coefficient was carried out to search for correlations between young children’s emotional intelligence, pro-social behavior and teacher-child relationship; and multiple regression analysis was carried out to search for the effects of the young children’s emotional intelligence, pro-social behavior and teacher-child relationship on their peer competence.
The results ane as follows. First, positive (+) correlations appeared among children’s emotional intelligence, pro-social behavior, teacher-child relation appeared each other. Though self-recognition among young children’s emotional intelligence showed a little lower correlations than other variables, self-regulation, other-awareness, other-regulation revealed positive correlations significantly. Besides, pro-social behavior showed significant positive correlations in total variables such as leadership, helping, empathy and emotional control, sharing etc, and intimacy, conflict, dependence revealed significant positive correlations in teacher-child relationship. Second, young children’s emotional intelligence, pro-social behavior, teacher-child relationship affected positive influences to peer competence. Other-regulation in young children’s emotional intelligence, leadership in pro-social behavior, helping, sharing, conflict of teach-child relationship were turned up to affecting influences to peer competence of children, and was displayed as affecting the highest influences to peer competence of children in case of leadership.
From comprehensive research results, an implication could be known such like emotional intelligence ability by which young children aware, regulate oneself and others, pro-social behavior by which young children participate in social interaction actively through cooperative play and various activities, teacher-child relationship which young children have with teachers as alternative care-giver affect to peer competence of children very greatly and importantly. This finding would be helpful in doing related researchers with young children’s emotional intelligence, pro-social behavior, teacher-child relationship.