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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2019.20.5.145

Mediating Effects of the Distress Tolerance on the Relationship between Negative Emotions and Subjective Well-Being  

Choi, Soon-Mi (Department of Counseling Hansei University)
Jeong, Moon-Kyeong (Department of Counseling Hansei University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.20, no.5, 2019 , pp. 145-154 More about this Journal
Abstract
As the interest in the positive quality of life is increasing throughout the world, the number of people who are suffering from negative sentiments, such as depression, anxiety, or stress, is increasing, as well. Especially, the adolescence period is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood and accompanies significant changes in terms of the body and mind alike. The purpose of this study is to examine the negative sentiment of the juveniles, caused by the stress they experience in their social and personal domains and the distress tolerance that can protect the inner feelings of them at the same time, to understand how they are related to the subjective well-being of the juveniles. For this study, the researcher employed the data from 362 high school students from the high schools located in Seoul and Gyeonggi area, which were analyzed using the statistics suites SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 22.0. According to the findings of this study, first, the depression and anxiety of the adolescent population showed a significant relationship for each variable with regard to the distress tolerance and the subjective well-being. Especially, the negative correlation with the subjective well-being was highly significant. Second, the depression and anxiety of the juveniles turned out to influence the distress tolerance and subjective well-being of them in a negative manner. In both distress tolerance and subjective well-being, the influence of anxiety was higher than that of depression. Third, in the relationship between depression, anxiety, and subjective well-being, the distress tolerance turned out to have a mediating effect. Such results of this study provided the basic data for suggesting the strategies to promote the perceived psychological well-being and help the juveniles who are under stress.
Keywords
Juveniles; Depression; Anxiety; Subjective Well-being; Distress Tolerance; Mediating Effect;
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