본 연구의 목적은 집단놀이 형태로 이루어지는 전통놀이 활동이 유아의 친사회적 행동에 어떠한 영향을
미치는지 알아보고자 하는 것이다. 본 연구의 대상은 충청남도 당진군에 소재한 K 초등학교병설유치원 원아 40명으로 실험집단 20명(남:12, 여:8) 통제집단 20명(남:11, 여:9)이었다. 연구결과 집단 전통놀이 활동이 유아의 지도성, 도움주기, 의사소통, 주도적 배려, 접근 시도하기, 감정이입 및 조절에 긍정적인 영향을 준 것으로 나타났다.

This study investigated how traditional play by group activities affected young children's prosocial behavior. Participants for the study were 40 five-year-old children attending two kindergartens attached to public elementary schools in Dangjin, Chungnam. Among them, 20 children (twelve boys and eight girls) were assigned to the experimental group while 20 children (eleven boys and nine girls) were assigned to the control group. The instrument used in this study was 'Prosocial Behavior Instrument for Young Children' (Kim, 2003) which is based upon the scale developed by Babcock, Hartle, and Lamme (1995). This instrument consists of 42 items measuring seven factors; leadership, helping, communication, initiative consideration, approaching, sharing, and empathy and self-control. For seven weeks, seven group traditional play including tug-of-war, Ganggangsullae, long-rope play, and counter play had been administered to the experimental group twice a week. The experimental group had been treated with group traditional play activities, while the control group had been treated with general kindergarten curriculum based upon life themes. Collected data were analysed with t-tests in order to find out group differences according to research questions. Results of this study were as follows. Group traditional play activities made statistically significant group differences of young children's prosocial behavior (p<.001). This means that group traditional play activities had positive effects on young children's prosocial behavior.

• 이선영(기지초등학교 병설유치원 교사) | Lee, Sun-Young