초등학생의 가사작업 참여도 및 의식에 관한 연구

A Study on Children’s Participation and Consciousness of Householdworks

The purpose of this study is to suggest a plan which would provide the children with knowledge of importance for the householdworks and lead them to participate voluntarily and actively. This study was investigated the children’s participation and consciousness of householdworks. The study was carried out on 366, 6th grade students (boys : 180, girls : 186) in December, 2003. The results are summarized as follows : The measure of children’s participational degrees in householdworks which related clothing, food, shelter, taking care of family. It was appeared that girl’s participation of householdworks was significantly higher than that of boy’s. While the highest participation degree was taking care of family, the lowest participation degree was clothing. The household environment variables that affect children’s householdworks participation was the age of parent, house style, mother’s business, father’s participation in householdworks. It was appeared that girl’s consciousness of householdworks was higher than that of boy’s, but there was not significantly different.