국내 장애 부모교육 연구의 키워드 네트워크 분석

Abstract

This study aims to examine the intellectual structure of the research field regarding the education for parents of children with disabilities. Korean keywords meaning ‘education for parents of children with disabilities’, ‘education for mothers of children with disabilities’, ‘mothers of children with disabilities’, and ‘education for fathers of children with disabilities’ were entered as search terms into the database of the Research Information Sharing Service (RISS). This is to screen for peer-reviewed journal articles in South Korea on the research field. After collecting the keywords from the articles, the characteristics of the overall intellectual structure of the field, and the centralities of the keywords, the clusters were investigated by applying the keyword network analysis method. NetMiner 4.4 was used for the analysis and for also visualizing the research results. The findings indicated that the keyword network of the research field consists of three components. ‘Parent education,’ ‘children with disabilities,’ ‘children with autism,’ and ‘children with developmental disabilities’ were the keywords with high－degree centrality, betweenness centrality, and closeness centrality. The cluster analysis identified 12 subfields within the research field. The characteristics of the intellectual structure of the research field were summarized and the limitations, significance, and insights for further research were discussed.