The purpose of this study was to investigate how the parent’s game addiction has an effect on children’s physical activity, physical self-conception was used by medium. Participants were 230 mothers with children between 5 and 7 years old. One-hundred eighty surveys, excluding those with omitted or odd answers, were analyzed. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, bivariate correlation analysis, path analysis using WEB-R 3.0(LAVAAN). The first, as the result indicated, parent’s game addiction affected the children’s physical activity directly. The second, parent’s game addiction affected the children’s physical self-conception. The third, children’s physical self-conception. affected the children’s physical activity. Therefore the effort to increase the children’s physical self-conception may contribute to developing children’s physical activity.
This study attempted to examine what changes of creative play characteristics occur when having education experience using multimedia in the field of early childhood education. In order to conduct the study, 15 infants at H day care center and 15 infants at S day care center, both located in Seoul, were selected as the subjects. The program processing was composed of extension activities using multimedia after listening to fairy tales using multimedia. For study instrument, the behavior test for creative play developed by Hwang Yoon Sae (2008) was used. This instrument consisted of total 5 subfactors: intrinsic motivation – imagination; sensitivity – curiosity; durability – immersion; various interests – challenge; and initiative – independence. For statistical analysis, SPSS 17.0 was used, and t-test was used for the statistic process. As a result of the experiment, it was concluded that the education experience using multimedia has positive effect on overall characteristics of creative behavior of infants; in detail, behavior characteristics of infants in the aspects of intrinsic motivation – imagination, sensitivity – curiosity, and durability – immersion were remarkably improved, whereas the characteristics in the aspects of interests – challenge and initiative-independence did not show any particular changes. In other words, the infants who receive a lot of multimedia materials have more creative thinking than those who do not receive a lot of multimedia materials, and this thinking ability is also reflected in play activities.