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This study attempts to investigate the effect of philanthropic education activities with picture books for young children on interpersonal relationship disposition and happiness. The subjects of the study were 40 students (20 in the experimental group, and 20 in the comparison group) in two classes of 5-years-old children in S day care center located in G city. The study was conducted in the order of the preliminary experiment, teacher training, pre‐test, experimental procedure, and post test. In the experimental group, philanthropic education activities with picture books for young children were carried out. The comparison group conducted philanthropic education activities by listening to picture books and story-telling according to the topics of Nuri curriculum. The results are as follows. First, philanthropic education activities with picture books for young children were found to be effective on interpersonal relationship disposition and sub-factors such as role disposition, social relation disposition, and expressive disposition. Second, philanthropic education activities with picture books for young children were found to affect happiness and a sub-factors of cognition and accomplishment, teacher relationships, peer relationships, spirituality, parent relationship, immersion, emotion, health and life satisfaction. When philanthropic education program utilizing picture books was applied to infants based on this study, it was found that it had a positive effect on the improvement of interpersonal orientation and happiness of infants. The value of philanthropy and change of the awareness through philanthropic education activities might be described as an educational method which enables infants to cultivate community spirit, proper values and attitudes to live together with other people. This study suggests that philanthropic education activities with picture books are worthy of being used in educational institutions for infants.

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