This study aims to investigate the developmental trends in children's social competence and the relationship between children's social competence and the home environment variables according to residential district.
The main problems of this study we...
This study aims to investigate the developmental trends in children's social competence and the relationship between children's social competence and the home environment variables according to residential district.
The main problems of this study were as follow ;
1) What differences are there in home environment sub-variables according to residential district.
2) What differneces are there in children's social competence according to residential district.
3) What effects are there between home environment and children's social compstence according to residential district.
The subject of this study 265 boys, 218 girls and their mother who were in the 1, 2 grade of the primary school located in Pusan, Milyang and Yangsan-Gun. Their were composed of the first year students 259 and the second year students 224.
The measuring instruments of this study were the home observation for measurement of the environment(HOME) for the low grader of a primary school and the social competence scale developed by Kohn, M. and Rossman, in 1972.
For data analysis, One-way analysis of variance and multiple regression were performed.
As a result of the data analysis, the following results were obtained ;
1. There were significant differences according to residential district in home enviroment sub-variables. In the large residential district, the score was higher than small it in 'organization of stable and predictable environment', 'district stimulation', 'quality of language environment', 'need gratification and avoidance of restriction', 'fostering maturity and independence', 'emotional climate', 'bredth of experience', 'aspects of physical environment' and 'play materials'
2. There were significant differences according to residential district in children's social competence. Children's interest and participation was shown the highest score in big city, and children's adaptation to the social rule was also shown the highest score in that district. But in both farming and fishing villages were shown the lower score.
3. There were significant differences according to residential district in the kind and degree of effect of home environment sub-variables that affected children's social competence. In the big city the home environment sub-variables that affected children's interest and participation were quality of language environment' and 'play materias'. In the middle and small city the home environment sub-variables that affected children's interest and participation were 'organigation of stable and predictable environment', 'need gratification and avoidance of restriction' and 'fostering maturity and independence', And the home environment sub-variables that affected children's adaptation to the social rule were 'fostering maturity and independence' and 'breadth of experience' in the big city, and were 'need gratification and avoidence of restriction' and 'fostering maturity and independence' in the middle and small city. But, in the farming and fishing villages, the home environment sub-variables hardly affected children's social competence.