아동의 불안 정성에 대한 대처반응과 또래수용과의 관계

The Relationship between Children's Coping with Anxiety Emotion and Peer Acceptance

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between children's coping with negative emotions and peer acceptance. The subjects of this study were 221 students who were in first grade, third grade and fifth grade of elementary school in Kwangju and Mokpo. The scales used in this study was Halpern(1999)'s coping-reaction criterion to negative emotion of children. The data analysis was made by SPSS PC+, and average, two-way ANOVA, Scheffe test and were employed to test the research questions. As a result, the emotion- centered coping and problem avoidance, part of coping reaction against anxiety, were significantly different according to gender. The higher graders used problem-avoidance reaction more largely, but aggressive coping was less used. Peer acceptance perceived by the children was different according to gender and age, but there was a gap in help and existence acknowledgement to age. It's found that problem avoidance, one of coping reactions against anxiety, was negatively correlated to conflict and corporal punishment of peer acceptance. No reaction was positively correlated to conflict and corporal punishment, but had a negative correlational relationship with existence acknowledgement.