The Effects of Developmental Changes in Children’s Resilience on Social Competence
AUTHOR : 김수정,곽금주
INFORMATION : page. 1~7 / 2016 Vol.23 No.4
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate the developmental changes of children’s resilience from first
grade to fourth grade and the effects of these developmental changes on fourth grade children’s social
competence. The participants comprised about 300 pairs of seven year-old children and their mothers. The
resilience of children and their mothers were repeatedly measured for four years once every year and
children’s social competence was measured at fourth grade. Latent growth modeling was used to
investigate the developmental changes of resilience and the effects of the developmental changes of
resilience on fourth grade children’s social competence. According to the results, there were individual
differences in children’s resilience in the first grade. The rates of change in the four years of children’s
resilience were statistically significant and the differences in this rate of change were observed. Next, the
children’s resilience in the first grade positively influenced their social competence’s subdivisions such as
sociability, social participation, initiativeness and popularity in the fourth grade, but did not have an effect
on interpersonal adjustment. The rates of change in children’s resilience for four years did not have an
effect on any of the subdivisions of social competence. This finding suggests that children’s resilience in
the first grade can help their social adjustment afterward.