Social distance can indicate cognitive and behavioral attitudes toward a social group, and is useful for
investigating people situated in a socially vulnerable position. When the children from multicultural family
aware negative attitudes from peer Korean children, self-confidence and social competence can be disturbed.
This study intended to examine influential factors on children's social distance towards children from
multicultural families including multicultural contact experience, stereotype, ethnically homogeneous
nationalism, thereby providing empirical evidence on social distance regarding multicultural families and their
children. The results of this study are as follows. First, when the Korean children felt closeness with a
multicultural child, when the ethnicity of the foreigner resided in the neighbor is White or Black, when
they contact multicultural children through the media and a multicultural education, the level of social
distance was higher, while the neighbor’s ethnicity is Abrab, social distance was lower. Second, there was
a significant association between the higher level of Korean children’s positive cognition and emotion and
the lower level of social distance. Third, hierarchial regression analyses demonstrated that positive emotion
and cognition decreased the level of social distance, while both closeness with a multicultural child and
taking the multicultural education increased the level of social distance. Finally, based on these results, this
study suggested implications for social work practice and research to better understand and reduce children's
social distance towards children from multicultural families.