본 연구는 체육활동이 유아의 성격형성에 미치는 영향을 알아보는데 연구목적이 있다. 이를 위해 전주시 소재 유치원에 재학중인 6-7세 유아 400명을 연구대상자로 선정 사회인구학적 특징에 따라 유아의 성격형성에 차이가 있는지, 체육활동의 참여빈도, 강도, 참여기간이 각각 성격형성에 미치는 영향의 정도를 분석한 결과 사회인구 통계학적 특성 변인에 따른 성격형성은 부분적으로 차이가 있었으며, 체육활동에 적극 참여정도가 성격형성에 더 많이 영향을 주었고, 참가빈도 및 기간에 따라 성격형성에 영향을 주고 있는 것으로 나타났다.

The aim of this study is to discover the relationships between infant gymnastics and social development or personality development. First, we selected the 6-7 year-olds enrolled in kindergartens located in at Jeon-ju in the year (2003) as the population. Then, through the stratified cluster random sampling method, 400 kindergarten children, including 176 boys and 162girls, were carefully selected for final analogs. I used "Social Maturity Test Averaging Study (DenKuk University paper no. 11, p155)" and "Social Maturity Test" from Korean Behaviorial Science Institution. The tools used in this study for measuring sociability was originally from Vineland Maturity Scale(Doll, 1935). The questionnaire was modified and supplemented by Kim Seung Kuk and Kim Ok Ki so that it will suit the current Korea State and also will level with the infant standard. Statistical analysts used for the date analysis was reliability test, one-way ANOVA, ANOVA and T-test. Through these analysing The results were as follows. Frist, there is a difference in part of personality formation depending on the variances of socio-demofraphic characters. Self-reliance, a sub-factor of sociability development, was far more apparent in girls and 7-year-olds than in boys and 6-year-olds. Boys and 7-year-olds demonstrated to own better locomotive power than girls and 6-year-olds while girls and 7-year-olds showed higher communication and self-instruction skills compared to boys and 6-year-olds. Whereas, boys and 7-year old children recorded higher points in sociability ability but girls gained higher credits in extoversive as well as introspective nature. In short, girls and, especially, 7-year-olds are superior to boys and 6-year-olds in most aspects of characters but there is virtually no difference due to education and job of their parents. Second, as far as the effects of sports activities on formation of young children`s characters are concerned, the more active their participation in them is, the more apparent their effects become. Third, the frequency of participation of young children in sports activities turns out to have drastic impact on formation of young children in sports activities turns out to have drastic impact on formation of characters. Fourth, the lengthy participation of young children in sports activities seems to be directly connected with formation of young children`s characters, a result that is particularly significant in educational viewpoint.