Paper Title
Effects of Young Children’ Stress Coping Behaviors and Problem Behaviors on Their Peer Interactions

Abstract
The present study aimed to examine effects of young children’ stress coping behaviors and problem behaviors on their peer interactions. The subjects of the study were 234 young children aged four and five years. The young children's stress coping behaviors, problem behaviors and peer interactions were rated by their teachers. Collected data were analyzed by administering correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis using SPSS PC+ 21.0 program. The results of the study are summarized as follows. First, young children’s positive peer interactions had positive correlations with their active stress coping behaviors and negative correlations with passive and magical coping behaviors and problem behaviors including hyperactivities, aggressive behaviors, anxiety, withdrawal while children’s negative peer interactions had positive correlations with their passive and magical stress coping behaviors and their problem behaviors. Second, young children’s active stress coping behavior were a variable to predict their positive peer interactions. Also young children’s problem behaviors(hyperactivities, aggressive behaviors, and anxiety) and passive and magical stress coping behaviors were variables to predict their negative peer interactions. Third, young children’s stress coping behaviors had mediating effects on relationship between their problem behaviors(hyperactivities, aggressive behaviors,) and negative peer interactions. In conclusion, this study has two suggestions for enhancing young children’s peer interaction; identifying effective stress coping behaviors to individual child and challenging situations which each child encounters and encouraging the child to apply the stress coping behaviors to deal with the difficulties. Key words - Stress coping behaviors, problem behaviors, peer interactions