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The study on friendship quality for students with special needs in inclusive elementary schools

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2007, 8(3), pp.403-418
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

전준 1 Shin, Hyunki 1

1단국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study attempted to identify the friendship quality perceived to be important by students with special needs who were included in regular classrooms. It is also examined the students' perceived importance on the friendship quality according to their gender and grade. Moreover, the study investigated the social behaviors and their relationship with the perceived importance of friendship quality categories.Two questionnaires were used to collect the data. One is the Friendship Quality Scale(Lee & Ko, 1999) for students with special needs, the other is the Social Behaviors Scale(Im, 1999) for teachers. Twenty six students with special needs and their teachers responded to the questionnaire. The mean and std. deviation were yielded to determine the tendency of the friendship quality as the perceived importance by the students with special needs. In addition, T-tests and One-way ANOVA were employed to verify the significance of differences perceived importance of the friendship quality as the gender and grade of students with special needs. Finally, Coefficient correlation was used to find out the relationship between the friendship quality categories and the social behaviors.Several major findings emerged from the study. The students with special needs indicated "pleasure of friendship" as their most important friendship quality category. "Satisfaction" and "Assistance" were also ranked as the highest item by the students with special needs. Differences were not found related to the gender and grade concerned with the friendship quality to be perceived important by the student with special needs. Additionally, significant correlation was observed between the friendship quality categories and the social behaviors.

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