A Study on What Makes Young Children Happy

서지정보

ㆍ발행기관 : 환태평양유아교육연구학회 ㆍ수록지정보 : Asia-Pacific journal of research in early childhood education / 10권 / 2호
ㆍ저자명 : Yonghee Hong, Haejeon Kim, Wooyong Jeun

목차

Methodology
Results
Discussion and Conclusion
References

한국어 초록

The purposes of this research were to understand children’s perception of happiness and to proposesuggestions for improving the level of happiness based on children's needs by analyzing individualinterviews about what makes them happy and why. The subjects of the study were 163 children agedthree to five at two kindergartens and one daycare center in Seoul, South Korea. Research resultswere as follows. First, they indicated living things (human, animal, plant) and inanimate things(plaything, school supply/book, tool/machine, accessory, food, property) as the objects that makethem happy. The most frequently indicated objects that make children happy included plaything (toy)(31.9%), human (12.3%), school supply/book (10.6%). Secondly, the reason why specific objectsmake children happy was because those objects provided satisfaction with desire for play, emotionalsatisfaction, practical satisfaction, esthetic satisfaction, satisfaction with desire for creation, andmoral satisfaction. The most frequent reason regarding why they become happy was because theycould play with playthings, and felt fun or good when they play. The identified playthings that makechildren happy and satisfy their various needs were those which they could easily find at home and inthe early childhood institutes. Such results suggest that children's happiness could be positivelyinfluenced by the setting where they could freely play while interacting with meaningful things.

영어 초록

The purposes of this research were to understand children’s perception of happiness and to propose
suggestions for improving the level of happiness based on children's needs by analyzing individual
interviews about what makes them happy and why. The subjects of the study were 163 children aged
three to five at two kindergartens and one daycare center in Seoul, South Korea. Research results
were as follows. First, they indicated living things (human, animal, plant) and inanimate things
(plaything, school supply/book, tool/machine, accessory, food, property) as the objects that make
them happy. The most frequently indicated objects that make children happy included plaything (toy)
(31.9%), human (12.3%), school supply/book (10.6%). Secondly, the reason why specific objects
make children happy was because those objects provided satisfaction with desire for play, emotional
satisfaction, practical satisfaction, esthetic satisfaction, satisfaction with desire for creation, and
moral satisfaction. The most frequent reason regarding why they become happy was because they
could play with playthings, and felt fun or good when they play. The identified playthings that make
children happy and satisfy their various needs were those which they could easily find at home and in
the early childhood institutes. Such results suggest that children's happiness could be positively
influenced by the setting where they could freely play while interacting with meaningful things.

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