의미연결망 분석을 활용한 긍정적 행동지원(PBS) 연구 동향 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the semantic network of domestic research related to positive behavior support in order to identify research trends in the field of positive behavior support in Korea as well as to suggest future research directions. To this end, 304 papers published in academic journals for a total of 22 years from 2002 to 2023 were collected. For the analysis of research trends, frequency analysis by year and journal was conducted, moreover word frequency analysis and centrality level were analyzed using TEXTOM and then visualized with UCINET6 and NetDraw. The research results are as follows. First, a total of 304 studies on positive behavior support were conducted from 2002 to 2023; they were mainly published in journals related to special education, and various other fields such as pedagogy, psychology, humanities and social sciences. Second, the main keywords appeared in the order of ‘positive behavior support’, ‘problem behavior’, ‘influence’, ‘effect’, ‘individual dimension’, and ‘class dimension’. Third, keywords with high connection centrality, proximity centrality, and mediation centrality all appeared in the order of ‘positive behavior support’, ‘problem behavior’, ‘influence’, and ‘effect’. This study identified the trends of recent studies by identifying essential keywords and the structure between them that are important in domestic positive behavior support-related studies, and discussed implications for future positive behavior support research.