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The Effects of Childcare Teachers’ Empathy Ability and Emotion Regulation Ability on Early Childhood Problem Behavior Teaching Strategies

  • Global Creative Leader: Education & Learning
  • Abbr : GCL
  • 2020, 10(1), pp.67-85
  • DOI : 10.34226/gcl.2020.10.1.67
  • Publisher : Research Institute for Gifted & Talented Education, Soongsil University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : January 1, 2020
  • Accepted : February 21, 2020
  • Published : March 30, 2020

Choi, Mi-Sun 1 Kwon, Hye JIn 2

1이편한숲속어린이집
2순천향대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study was performed to figure the correlation between the empathy ability, emotion regulation ability and strategy for addressing children’s problem behavior of the childcare teachers, and to analyze the effects of the empathy and emotion regulation abilities of the childcare teachers on the early childhood problem behavior teaching strategies. For this, the survey on 300 teachers of C region had been performed, and a total of 252 copies of the survey questionnaire are used for the final analysis. The collected materials are used to calculate the product-moment correlation coefficient (r) with SPSS 18.0, and implemented the multiple regression analysis. The results of this study are as follows. First, there was a significant positive correlation between childcare teachers' empathy ability and emotion regulation ability on children’s problem behavior teaching strategies. Second, it was showed that the cognitive empathy ability and emotional regulation ability of child-care teachers effect positive prevention and response teaching strategies on children’s problem behavior teaching strategies. Moreover, childcare teachers’ cognitive empathy ability has a significant positive effect to the strategy for positive prevention of the children's problem behavior. Based on the mentioned results, the strategy for addressing children's problem behavior, and the empathy ability and emotion regulation ability of teachers were discussed.

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