Relationships Among Children's Temperament, Social Competence, Emotional Intelligence, Morality, Parents' Child Rearing Attitudes and Children's Behavior Problems

유아의 기질, 사회적 유능감, 감성지능, 도덕성 및 부모양육태도와 유아의 문제행동간의 관계

The purpose of this research was to study the effects of children's temperament, social competence, emotional intelligence, morality and parent's child rearing attitudes on young children's internalizing and externalizing problem behavior. Subjects were l34 five-year-old children attending day-care centers and kindergartens in Seoul, Korea. Analysis of the relationships among these variables was by correlation and stepwise multiple regressions. There were statistically significant correlations among the variables of temperament, social competence and parents' child rearing attitudes and young children's behavior problems. Variables influencing young children's internalizing behavior problems were children's temperament and parents' child-rearing attitudes; variables influencing children's externalizing behavior problems were children's temperament, their social competence, and parents' child-rearing attitudes.