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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between children’s social ability, language skills, attention and children’s motor skills. The subjects used in this study were 153 five-year-old kindergarteners. The mean age of the subjects was 71.01 months. ‘Social Situations Measure’ ‘Mr. CUCCI Test’, ‘Preschool Receptive-Expressive Language Scale’, and ‘Motor Proficiency Test for Young Children’ were used in collection of data. Pearson’s correlation and Step-wise multi-Regression Analysis were used to analyze the data.The results of this study are as follows. First, there were positive correlations between children’s social ability and their language skills, attention. Second, the children’s social ability was the predictor that most effectively predicted the overall language skills, followed by attention as an additional predictor. Also, relative influence between children’s social ability and subordinate factors of independent variables showed that language skills, which is a subordinate factor of expressive language, was found to be the strongest predictive factor, and attention was found to be an additional predictive factor.

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본 연구의 목적은 유아의 사회성과 언어능력, 집중력, 운동능력간의 관계를 분석하는데 있다. 연구대상은 유치원에 재원 중인 유아 153명이었으며, 평균 월령은 71.01개월이었다. ‘사회적 기술 상황 검사’, ‘Mr.CUCUI 검사’, ‘취학 전 아동의 수용언어 및 표현언어 발달 척도’, ‘유아운동능력 검사’를 연구도구로 선정하여 연구자료를 수집하였다. 수집된 연구자료는 Pearson 적률 상관계수와 단계적 중다회귀분석을 통해 검증하였다. 연구결과, 유아의 사회성과 언어능력, 집중력의 하위요인인 ‘감정 다루기’와 정적상관이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 언어능력의 하위요인인 ‘표현언어’가 유아의 사회성에 유의미하게 영향을 미치는 예측변인으로 밝혀졌다.