Korean Journal of Family Welfare (한국가족복지학)

The Korean Child and Family Welfare Association (한국아동가족복지학회)
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The Moderating Effects of Interpersonal Competence in the Correlation between Academic Stress for Adolescents and Happiness

청소년의 학업스트레스와 행복의 관계에서 대인관계 유능감의 조절효과

  • Received : 2018.09.24
  • Accepted : 2018.12.10
  • Published : 2018.12.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effects of interpersonal competence on the effects of academic stress on happiness of adolescents. For this research a survey on academic stress, interpersonal competence, and happiness was conducted with a total 487 high school students living in Daegu city. The collected data was statically processed by using SPSS 20.0 according to frequency, descriptive statistics, and multi regression analysis. The main results can be summarized as follow. First, Academic stress affected the adolescents' happiness. The higher the level of academic stress was, the smaller the adolescent's happiness. second, between academic stress and happiness, conflict management and disclosing personal information played a moderating role to reducing the academic stress. That is, it was confirmed that interpersonal competence played a moderating role on the effect that academic stress had on adolescent happiness. In conclusion, this study can be practically applied as basic information to increase happiness on adolescents. In addition, the results provided valuable insights for developing program the intervene for adolescents' happiness.

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