1Department of Child Development & Housing, Pusan National University 2Department of Child Development & Family Studies·Research Institute of Ecology for the Elderly, Pusan National University
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Na Hyeon Kim ,Tel: +82-51-510-2761, Fax: +82-51-513-276, Email: yforkid@hanmaiI.net
Received: July 30, 2009; Revised: August 6, 2009 Accepted: October 27, 2009.
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among children's important self-domain, self-evaluation and global self-esteem by gender. Information was collected on 376 5-6th graders from elementary schools in Busan. The major findings were that 1) The self-evaluation of peer domain was the most powerful determinant on self-esteem in both boys and girls 2) The percentage that valued domain of family self was higher than the other groups in both boys and girls(boys 36.3%, girls 55.4%). 3) In boys' domains of peer self and computer self, important self-domain moderated the effect of self evaluation on global self-esteem.
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