본 연구는 ‘한국정서·행동장애아교육학회’에서 발간하는「정서·행동장애연구」학술지에 2012년부터 2016년까지 게재된 333편의 논문들에 대한 연구방법 및 내용을 분석하는 것이다. 연구내용으로는 연도별 게재논문, 연구자의 특성, 게재논문들의 연구방법을 알아보고, 실험연구를 중심으로 내용을 분석하였다. 연구결과를 살펴보면, 첫째, 게재논문 총 333편을 분석한 결과, 연평균 66.6편을 발행하였으며, 제1저자는 특수교육 전공, 대학 교수, 여성이 많았다. 소속대학은 대구대학교, 연구자 수는 2인 공동연구, 연구방법은 조사연구 논문이 가장 많았다. 그리고 제1저자의 배경변인과 연구방법을 교차 분석한 결과, 사례연구는 특수교육학, 조사연구는 사회복지학, 상관연구는 심리학 전공자가 많았으며, 사례연구는 외래교수와 교사, 비교연구는 박사, 조사연구는 석사가 주로 하였다. 둘째, 실험연구 논문 51편을 분석한 결과, 연구대상은 주로 초등학교 일반학생이었으며, 실험집단 수는 10명 이하, 통제집단 수는 11~20명, 실험설계 유형은 사전사후 통제집단 설계, 연구윤리 준수는 당사자 동의, 실험기간은 2~3개월 미만, 실험회기는 11~20회기, 통계도구는 SPSS, 통계방법은 독립표본 t검정을 사용한 연구가 가장 많았다. 하지만 사회적 타당도와 중재충실도를 제시하지 않은 논문이 매우 많았다. 이상의 연구결과를 바탕으로 「정서·행동장애연구」학술지의 질적 향상을 위한 연구방법 개선 방안을 논의 및 제언하였다.
The goal of this study is to investigate the research methods and contents of the 333 papers published in 「Journal of Emotional & Behavioral Disorders」 between 2012 to 2016 by ‘Korea Society for the Emotional & Behavioral Disorders’. As for the research contents, topics of articles by year, characteristics by the type of researchers, and methodologies used in the published papers; as for the experimental research, experimental contents were also analyzed. Following are the major findings from the study: First, classifying the 333 articles published in the journal showed that 66.6 papers on average were published in this journal, and the most frequently the profile of the first author was a female professor majored in special education. The most frequent affiliation was Daegu University, the most frequent authorship was co-authorship with two authors and the most frequent method of research was conducting a survey. A further cross-analysis between the first author’s background and methodologies as variants indicated that special education is the most frequent in among case study articles, social welfare is the most frequent among survey research, and papers with the method of correlation analysis was mostly conducted by psychology majors. Mostly case study articles were written by adjunct professors and teachers, comparative research by Ph.D. degree holders, and survey research by MA degree holders. Second, according to the result of analyzing 51 experimental research papers, research subjects were ordinary elementary school students, with an experimental group of 10 or less and a control group of 11 to 20 in most cases. Also, the most common type of experiment design was pretest-posttest control group design. The most common way of complying with the research ethics was getting the agreement of the concerned party. Finally, the period of the experiment were frequently less than two tor three months, with eleven to twenty sessions. The most favored statistical tool was SPSS, and the number of papers that conducted independent sample t-test was most high. However, there were a considerable amount of papers that failed to present social validity nor mediation fidelity. Based on the results mentioned above, this study discusses and suggests a guideline for improving research methodology, in order to enhance the quality of 「Journal of Emotional & Behavioral Disorders」.