The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among children’s self-regulation,
self-encouragement and school adjustment. The subjects of this study were 418 elementary school students
in Busan. The results of this study were as follows. Frist, self-regulation and self-encouragement had a
statistically significant positive relationship with each other in relation to school adjustment. In particular,
self-encouragement had the higher correlation with school adjustment than with self- regulation. Second,
the sub variables of self-regulation - inherent value, recognition strategy, - had positive effects on school
adjustment. Third, the sub variables of self-encouragement - emotional self-encouragement - had significant
effects on school adjustment. These findings imply that children who have high self-regulation and high
self-encouragement can adjust to school well.