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The Mediating Effects of Young Children's Shyness on the Relationship between Teacher-Children Relationship and Young Children's Social Competence

교사와 유아 간의 관계와 유아의 사회적 능력간의 관계에서 유아 수줍음의 매개효과

  • No, Jin-Hee (Dept. of Child and Family, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Hee-Hwa (Dept. of Child and Family, Pusan National University)
  • 노진희 (부산대학교 아동가족학과) ;
  • 김희화 (부산대학교 아동가족학과)
  • Received : 2015.10.27
  • Accepted : 2016.01.24
  • Published : 2016.02.29
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of young children's shyness on the relationship between teacher-children relationship and young children's social competence. The subjects of the study were 270 children from three years to five years old and their teachers in Busan. Frequency, t-test, Cronbach ${\alpha}$, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and hierarchial regression were used for data analysis. The results were as follows: first, teacher-children intimacy showed positive correlation with the young children's social competence. Teacher-children conflict showed negative correlation with the young children's social competence. Second, teacher-children intimacy showed negative correlation with the young children's shyness. Teacher-children conflict showed positive correlation with the young children's shyness. Third, young children's shyness showed negative correlation with the young children's social competence. Fourth, young children's shyness had partial mediating effects on the relationship between teacher-children intimacy and young children's sociability. Young children's shyness had partial mediating effects on the relationship between teacher-children intimacy and young children's popularity and leadership. Young children's shyness had partial mediating effects on the relationship between teacher- children conflict and young children's sociability. Young children's shyness had partial mediating effects on the relationship between teacher-children conflict and young children's popularity and leadership.

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