| Summary: | 碩士 === 實踐大學 === 家庭研究與兒童發展學系碩士班 === 99 === Sajiao (coquetry) is commonly seen in Taiwanese society but little systematically studied. There are three objectives of this study: 1). To understand occurrence of children's sajiao in classrooms, including to whom they do it, the behavior per see, their purpose of doing it, response from whom they do it to and relevance between these four categories. 2). To discuss children's sajiao behavior and its relevance with children's Sociometrics Status. 3). To discuss children's sajiao patterns.
Time Sampling is adopted in this study to observe frequency of sajiao from children at three-year-old, four-year-old, and five-year-old class in a private kindergarten in Taipei. Then, Event Sampling is adopted to tape and observe sajiao that occurred in those classes. It is discovered in the previously recorded data that sajiao happened more frequently and was conducted by more patterns in children of the four-years-old class, so eight children of the most sajiao times and with various patterns were chosen as the focus of analysis. After the taped data is transcribed, it is coded and timed based on“sajiao subject”, ”sajiao behavior”, ”purpose of sajiao”and “response from the subject”, relevance between all of which is examined in Chi-square. Also, two teachers of the four -year-old class were interviewed and Sociometric Status is employed to understand children's sajiao behavior and their peer relationships. The study results are as follows:
1. Sajiao subjects are teachers, peers and observers. Sajiao behaviors are oral expression, facial expression and physical action. The purpose of sajiao is emotional, manipulative and to arouse attention. Responses from sajiao subjects are ”accept”,“reject” or“no respond”.
2. Different sajiao behaviors occur according to degree of closeness between children and the sajiao subject. Children's sajiao behaviors vary from purposes. Furthermore, teachers respond differently based on children's purpose of sajiao but there is no difference in response among peers.
3. 73% of peers' sajiao is not accepted by children and there is no“popular type”in Sociometric Status of the 8 children being focused, which shows children's sajiao behavior may be less welcomed in peer interaction. The rejected-type of the sajiao child usually behaves in routine-violating sajiao and because that child relatively lacks cognition of amicable relationship, his/her sajiao behavior is often not accepted by peers.
4. Children's sajiao types can be categorized as “manipulative”, “resistant”, “enmeshed”and”attached”according to degree of closeness between children and sajiao subjects and purposes of sajiao.
Through understanding characteristics in children's sajiao behavior and potential influence of the behavior on personal and social level, concrete suggestions are proposed in this study for reference of parents, children education practitioners, and researchers interested in sajiao.
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