한국 초등학생의 성의식과 성행태에 관한 연구

The objective of the study is to analyze Korean elementary school pupils' sexuality consciousness, information sources of sexuality knowledge and their behaviors with regard to sexuality, in order to rationally and accurately identify the dir ection and cont ents of sexuality education programs in and out of school.

The study which was conducted between February and October 1999 adopted a questionnaire survey approach to obtain relevant informations from 3,000 elementary pupils who were sampled at random throughout the country. Those who earnestly answered the 86 item questionnaire amounted to 2044.

Elementary pupils are more satisfied with their mother rather than their father in human relations. Most of them accept their gender as satisfactory and happy, even though a few of girls prefer to be "male" if they were born again. Only 6.8% of the respondents have experienced part time jobs : 48.6% of them, newspaper delivery, service work at supermarket, etc., and 12.1%, entertainment work. Those who work at entertainment places are mostly girls.

Elementary pupils' knowledge of sexuality is very low, that is, mean score is 26.2 of 100. Boys who experienced wet dream are 6.8%, and girls who experienced menstruation are 20.0%. 46.6% of the respondents have experienced drinking alcohol and 1.2% experienced or enjoy smoking. 29.2% have watched porno videos, photos and magazines.

18.2% have acquainted with the opposite sex, and 25% of sixth grade pupils have been acquainting opposite sex friends. Those who experienced masturbation are more than 6.8%, and boys (10.8%) experienced more than girls (3.0%). Boys who experienced sexual intercourse are 2.8% while girls, 0.8%. 5.6% experienced sexual harassment (boys 4.0%, girls 7.3%). T hose who suffered from rape are 1.8% ; boys 2.0% and girls 1.5%. Very few girls (0.38%) have experienced pregnancy.

About 15.0% of the respondents encounter problems and worries concerning sexuality and they prefer to consult with parents (54.4%), friends (15.9%) and professional sexuality counselor (15.9%), while few of them want to consult with school teachers (3.7%).

All of the informations collected from the respondents wanted to be utilized for sexuality education programs in elementary schools and sex education specialists out of schools.