Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine children's psychological problems perceived by elementary school teachers with the use of KPRC-TRF. In order to know the psychological problem types of the children whom 223 elementary school teaches perceived, the subjects of 431 elementary school students ranging from first to sixth graders were evaluated by KPRC-TRF. In order to know how much parents and students themselves perceived children's psychological problems perceived by the teachers, 63 of 431 subject students were tested by KPRC-TRF as well as KPRC-CRF and KPRC-PRF. Finally, teachers who took part in the material collection were asked to describe the reasons for selecting those 211 subject students. The results from above processes are as follows: First, the result of verifying the scales difference between normal students and selected subject students indicated that all scales were in average range, except ERS scales which were meaningfully higher in selected subject students than in normal students. Second, in order to know children's psychological problematic types perceived by the elementary teachers, similar types in contents were put together and reasons for the selection of the subjects were described by three aspects such as internalizing problems, external behavioral problems and interpersonal relationship problems, 19 sub aspects, and 28 specific aspects. Third, data of 353 except missing data were cluster analysed, and seven clusters were extracted such as the normal profile, the external problems, depression and social relationship, external problems and psychotic problems, external problems and family relationship problems, depression and anxiety, and the general complaints profile. Fourth, among seven cluster profiles, children's psychological problematic types and frequency perceived by teachers were studied on the basis of profile meaning. In the normal profile(cluster 3), external behavioral problems were reported a lot such as 47.22% in "Don't focus on study and distracted." and 38.89% in "Pick up quarrels with friends and often fight." Fifth, in order to know whether the problems perceived by teachers were perceived as the same level by parents and children, 63 of selected children were tested with KPRC-TRF, KPR-PRF, KPRC-CRF. The scales except for F, FAM scales had meaningful differences among teachers, parents and children. On the basis of the study results, the limitations of the study and considerations for the future study were suggested.