유아의 인성 함양에 미치는 조부모-손자녀 세대통합프로그램의 효과

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the importance of the senior-young children intergenerational integration programs as plans to enhance children's personality by analyzing the relationship between the elderly-young children intergenerational integration programs and personality of young children and effect of the program on personality of young children. Based on the result of preceding studies that the elderly-young children intergenerational integration programs enhance children's personality, this study explores what effect the elderly-young children intergenerational integration programs has on personality of young children. For these purpose, following research questions were set in this study; What effect do the elderly-young children intergenerational integration programs have on the formation of young children's basic living habits? What effect do the elderly-young children intergenerational integration programs have on young children's self-establishment? What effect do the elderly-young children intergenerational integration programs have on young children's community spirit? What effect do the elderly-young children intergenerational integration programs have on young children's physical development? What effect do the elderly-young children intergenerational integration programs have on young children's development of sociability? The study subjects were 20 young children in the age of 4 and 5 registered in national and public day-care centers in Seoul. Pretest and posttest were conducted on experimental group and control group. A 40-minute elderly-young children intergenerational integration program was conducted on the experimental group twice a week for 5 weeks while activities based on Nuri curriculum were performed on control group for 2 weeks. As the measuring device for children's personality development, Yoon Jin Bae's Personality Rating Scale (2007) was used. In order to investigate the effect of the elderly-young children intergenerational integration program on the young children's personality, paired sample t-test was conducted on the change in the level of personality of experimental group and control group before and after the performance of the program. The effects of the elderly-young children intergenerational integration program on the young children's personality are as follows; First, homogeneity between experimental group and control group was confirmed as the result of pretest. Second, as the result of pretest-posttest on experimental group, it was verified that the program had positive effect on young children's community spirit, physical development and sociability domains except for basic living habits and self-establishment. In sum, the elderly-young children intergenerational integration programs have partial effect on the development of young children's personality.