KICCE Policy Brief

Longitudinal effects of fathers' use of family-friendly policies in workplaces on Children’s executive function: The mediating role of co-parenting Danbee Han, Jieun Choi and Hyoun K. Kim This study provided empirical evidence on the effectiveness of family—friendly policies(FFPs) by investigating whether fathers’ use of FFPs, such as fathers’ division of parental involvement and family flexibility, had a longitudinal effect on co-parenting and children’s executive functions. D..

• Chief Of ResearchDanbee Han
• ResearchersJieun Choi and Hyoun K. Kim
• PublishDate2023-06-30

Identifying Latent Classes in Movement Behavior in Late Childhood and Testing Children’s Physical Self-image and Parental factors as Predictors of Latent Classes Yookyeong Park, Keumkyu Lee, Yoojung Kim, Min Jeong Kim and Kangyi Lee This study categorized movement behavior in late childhood and verified the factors affecting it according to a daily time index. Therefore, a latent profile analysis was conducted using data from 1,397 participants in the 13th wave of the Panel St..

• Chief Of ResearchYookyeong Park
• ResearchersKeumkyu Lee, Yoojung Kim, Min Jeong Kim and Kangyi Lee
• PublishDate2023-06-30

Effects of Media Usage and Physical Activity on Children’s School Adjustment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Roles of “Cognitive” and “Emotional” Executive Functions Minji Lee and Ju-Hyun Song This study examined the effects of media usage and physical activity on children’s school adjustment and the mediating role of “hot” (emotional) and “cool” (cognitive) executive functions during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic. Longitudinal data from the Panel Study..

• Chief Of ResearchMinji Lee
• ResearchersJu-Hyun Song
• PublishDate2023-06-30

Child Academic Achievement in Relation to Parental Academic Involvement: Moderated Mediating Effects of Learning Attitude and Academic Stress JungHa Lim and EunKyung Choi This study tested the moderated mediating effects of learning attitude and academic stress on the link between parental academic involvement and child academic achievement. The participants were 591 elementary school students (6th graders) and their parents, retrieved from the 13th Panel Study on Korean Children. The dat..

• Chief Of ResearchJungHa Lim
• ResearchersEunKyung Choi
• PublishDate2023-06-30

Structural Analysis of Teacher-Child Intimacy and Conflict, Executive Function Difficulty, and Grit in Late Childhood: Group Comparison According to Media Device Addiction Level Choonkyung Kim and Minkyu Cho This study aims to verify the influence between teacher-child intimacy and conflict, executive function difficulty, and grit, and to reveal the difference in influence according to the level of media device addiction. For this purpose, data from the 13th year of the Korea Children's P..

• Chief Of ResearchChoonkyung Kim
• ResearchersMinkyu Cho
• PublishDate2023-06-30

A Study on the Structural Relationship beteen children's grit, learning attitude, academic stress, and happiness Jincheol Kim and Seongcheon Kim This study identified the relationship between grit, academic stress, learning attitudes, and happiness. The target population comprised 1,205 children from the Korean Children's Panel Study (2020). The results are as follows: First, the grit scale of the eight questions was reduced to six due to reliability and factor analysis, and the other two..

• Chief Of ResearchJincheol Kim
• ResearchersSeongcheon Kim
• PublishDate2023-06-30

Effects of Maternal Media Overuse on Children's Media Dependence: Focusing on the Moderating Effects of Children's Grit Seul-Ah Lee and Sarang Go The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of grit on the relationship between maternal media overuse and children's media dependence. For this purpose, data from the 13th year (2020) of the Korean Children’s Panel, consisting of 1,393 participants, were used and analyzed by employing the SPSS Process Macro. The results of..

• Chief Of ResearchSeul-Ah Lee
• ResearchersSarang Go
• PublishDate2023-06-30

The Social Competence and Grit relating to the Different Type of Developmental Trajectories in Executive Functioning for Children Hyo-Jin Lim and Jae-Jun Ryu This study investigated how changes in executive functioning during childhood appear over time, and their different types were identified according to developmental trajectories. In addition, this study examines how social competence predicts these development and how grit (i.e. consistency of interest, perseverance of effort) differ..

• Chief Of ResearchHyo-Jin Lim
• PublishDate2023-06-30

The Structural Relationship Between Mothers’ Type A Behavior Patterns, and Their Children's Self-esteem, Happiness and Executive Function Difficultiesy Jaehwa Song and Leejin Kim This study investigated the structural relationship between mothers’ Type A behavior patterns, and their children's self-esteem, happiness, and executive function difficulties using data from the 13th(2020) Panel Study on Korean Children. The participants in this study were 1,217 6th grade children and their..

• Chief Of ResearchJaehwa Song
• ResearchersLeejin Kim
• PublishDate2023-06-30

Changes in Child-rearing Costs for Young Children Before and After COVID-19 Hyomi Choi This study looks at how child-rearing costs for young children because of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Using a two-way fixed effects panel data model, we performed inference on time lag effects and the determinants of child-rearing costs for young children, having rigorously controlled for unobserved heterogeneity. The estimation results indicate a significant increase in child-rearing co..

• Chief Of ResearchHyomi Choi
• PublishDate2023-06-30