Children's folk psychology in the Korean and the US children : A comparison between children in Taegu and children in Virginia
한국영유아보육학
2002, vol.31, no., pp.1~24(23 pages)
UCI : http://uci.or.kr/G704-000724.2002.31..004
한국영유아보육학회
연구분야 : 사회과학 > 한국영유아보육학
송영주
(계명문화대학)
초록
The purpose of this study was to know whether children's folk psychology is being influenced by their own culture or not. For this, I compared behavior explanations of Korean children with those of American children, of age 7, 9, and 11, asking them to explain others' good and bad behaviors. The scheme of the internal-external categories was used to code children's responses.
Results showed that children in the two cultures were different in behavior explanations with internal reasons. Less Korean children than American children explained others' behaviors with internal reasons. Developmentally, Korean 11Y children tended to use external explanations, in comparison to American 11Y children with internal explanations, for others' good behaviors. Moreover, when to explain specific situation offered by the researcher, the cultural differences were more evident.
