유아의 사회도덕성에 관한 연구 : 사회인구학적 특성을 중심으로

A study of the sociomorality of children : Focused on socio-demogr aphic factor s

This study examined the sociomorality of young children and analyzed socio-demographic factors influence on the sociomorality. Participants of this study were the mothers who have 3-5 years children enrolled in daycare center and the daycare teachers. The mothers answered about children’s socio-demographic information and the teachers measured children’ sociomorality. The data from total 213 questionnaires were analyzed by SPSS 25.0. The results of this study were as follows. First, sociomorality of children overall was positive, and the score of violent action subfactor was the highest. Second, sociomorality had significant correlation with children’ sex, father’s age and father’s education level. Third, children’ age was a significant influential factor on life dignity, honesty, rules, etiquette subfactor, while father’s education level only statistically impacted on violent action subfactor. Father’s age influenced on orders, and children’ age and sex influenced on rules. Based on the results, the present study suggested several future directions for the advanced studies concerned with sociomorality.