This study aims at figuring out the influences of sharing storytelling about children''s storybook related to personality-cooperative group game activities on toddler''s personality and self-regulation on children who are 5 years old and suggesting how to improve toddler''s personality and self-regulation. The research question for the goal of the study are set as follows:
Research Question 1. How does the sharing storytelling about children''s storybook related to personality-cooperative group game activity connecting program affect toddler''s personality?
Research Question 2. How does the sharing storytelling about children''s storybook related to personality-cooperative group game activity connecting program affect toddler''s self control?
In order to conduct the study, the experiment was made in M nursery school located in M City in Gyeongshangbuk-do. The research subjects were 28 five-year-old toddlers(experiment group: 14; control group: 14).
The experiment was conducted by dividing into the experiment group to be conducted with sharing storytelling about children''s storybook related to personality-cooperative group activity game connecting program and the control group to be conducted with activities to read and share children''s storybook related to personality and Nuri curriculum activities. The study consists of the analysis on the related literature and previous studies, selecting children''s storybook related to personality and sharing storytelling after selecting the final book according to the selection criteria, composing the contents of cooperative group game connecting program, selecting test instruments, training teachers, preliminary test, pre-test, experiment and measurement, post-test, and data analysis in order.
In order to measure toddler''s personality, The Personality measuring index for toddlers between 3 and 5 years old developed by Na, Eun-sook and Kim, Kyung-hee(2014) was used. Sub-elements of toddler''s personality test consist of interpersonal value, individual value, and social value.
In order to measure toddler''s self-regulation, the measuring instrument developed by Kendall and Wilcox(1979), translated by Yu, Hye-jeong(1998), and modified and supplemented by Lee, Ji-hyun(2001) was used. Sub-elements of toddler''s self-control consist of self-control, reduction of impulse, and attention concentration.
Pre- and post-measurement of each test instrument were made by evaluation of teachers in charge and the collected data was used for calculating averages and standard deviations. Using statistical data processed by SPSS 12.0, averages and standard deviations of pre-test and post-test were calculated to measure toddler''s personality and self-regulation. With pre-test as co-variable, ANCOVA analysis was made for the measured values of post-test.
The experiment procedures were made in total 18 sessions for 10 weeks from May 5th to July 14th, 2017. For the toddlers in the experiment group, sharing storytelling about children''s storybook related to personality-cooperative group game activities were conducted while for the toddlers in the control group, sharing storytelling about children''s storybook related to personality and Nuri curriculum activities were conducted. After the total 18 sessions'' experiment procedures'' in order to figure out the influences of sharing storytelling about children''s storybook related to personality-cooperative group game connecting program on toddler''s personality and self-regulation, post-test was conducted. The post test was made between July 29th and July 30th, 2017, and measuring toddler''s personality and self-regulation was done with method identical to pre-test. In order to figure out differences between the experiment and control groups, the test results were analyzed with ANCOVA by using SPSS 12.0.
For the summary of the results of the study, first, sharing storytelling about children''s storybook related to personality-cooperative group game connecting program seems to have positive influences on toddler''s personality. After conducting sharing storytelling about children''s storybook related to personality-cooperative group game connecting program, post-test results show that it has positive influences on all three sub-elements of toddler''s personality, interpersonal value, individual value, and social value. Second, sharing storytelling about children''s storybook related to personality-cooperative group game connecting program seems to have positive influences on toddler''s self-regulation. After conducting sharing storytelling about children''s storybook related to personality-cooperative group game connecting program, post-test results show that it has positivie influences on all three sub-elements of toddler''s self-regulation, self-control, reduction of impulse, and attention concentration.