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The Effect of Social Support on Adolescents' School-Related Adjustments: The Mediation Effect of Life Satisfaction

사회적지지가 남녀청소년의 학교적응에 미치는 영향: 삶의 만족도의 매개효과

  • Choi, Mi-Kyung (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Duksung Women's University)
  • 최미경 (덕성여자대학교 아동가족학과)
  • Received : 2014.06.30
  • Accepted : 2014.08.27
  • Published : 2014.12.30
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Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between social support, life satisfaction, and school-related adjustments of adolescents. The participants were 260 junior high school students (140 male and 120 female students) from the Seoul area. They completed questionnaires on social support, life satisfaction, and school-related adjustments. The collected data were analyzed using basic descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation, and a multiple regression analysis. Baron and Kenny's method was used and examined, and the Sobel test was performed to determine the mediating model's significance. It was adapted to SPSS ver. 19.0 for Windows. The major findings were as follows: first, social support (parents/teacher/friend) was positively correlated with the adolescents' school-related adjustment. Second, the adolescents' life satisfaction was also positively correlated with the adolescents' school-related adjustments. In addition, social support was positively correlated with life satisfaction. It was further found that the adolescents' life satisfaction tended to play a perfectly/partially mediating role between social support and school-related adjustment; that is, social support (parents/teacher/friend) was shown to have not only a direct effect, but also an indirect effect through the adolescents' life satisfaction, on the school-related adjustments. These results clearly indicated that adolescents' life satisfaction plays a crucial role in the relationship between social support and the adolescents' school-related adjustments.

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