The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parental autonomy support, adolescents' academic failure tolerance and ego resilience, and whether ego resilience mediates the effect of parental autonomy support on adolescents' academ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parental autonomy support, adolescents' academic failure tolerance and ego resilience, and whether ego resilience mediates the effect of parental autonomy support on adolescents' academic failure tolerance. For this purpose, data were collected using the questionnaire method from 342 second and third year students (230 male students, 112 female students) attending one middle school in Seoul. For parental autonomy support, the Perceived Parental Autonomy Support Scale [P-PASS] developed and validated by Mageau, Ranger, Joussemet, Koestner, Moreau, and Forest (2015) was used. The original scale consists of parental autonomy support and psychological control, but in this study, only parental autonomy support was used. Corrected, supplemented, and measured. Ego-resilience was measured using the Ego-Resilience Scale developed by Block and Kremen (1996), which was adapted by Yoo Seong-kyung (2002). Lastly, academic failure tolerance was measured using the 'Korean Academic Failure Tolerance Scale' standardized by Ayoung Kim (1994) into the Korean version of the scale developed by Clifford and Kim (1988). As a preliminary analysis, the collected data were analyzed using the independent sample t-test and correlations between variables. Structural Equation Modeling [SEM] was established for this analysis to examine the paths between variables. To test the significance of the indirect effect, the bootstrap method was used. The main results of this study are summarized as follows.
First, in relation to the direct effect of mother's and father's support for autonomy on academic failure tolerance, only the influence of mother's support for autonomy was significant. That is, the more middle school children perceived their mother's support for autonomy, the higher their academic failure tolerance was.
Second, the autonomy support of mothers and fathers was found to have a significant effect on the self-resilience of middle school students.
Third, in relation to the effect of ego resilience on academic failure tolerance, the higher the ego resilience, the higher the academic failure tolerance of middle school students. indicates a correlation.
Lastly, as a result of examining the indirect effect of support for parental autonomy on academic failure tolerance through ego resilience, it was found to be significant in both fathers and mothers.
This study confirmed the pathways in which the support of mother and father autonomy, which is an environmental factor, affects academic failure tolerance, which is a form of positive learning attitude, through the self-resilience of adolescents, which is an individual internal factor. In particular, this study is meaningful in that it reveals that it is possible to increase the possibility of forming a resilient and positive learning attitude by exploring the causes of academic failure tolerance, which is a major factor influencing the learning of adolescents. In addition, it has been demonstrated that support for autonomy of not only mothers but also fathers is important to increase academic failure tolerance. It provided the implication that learning can be done with a positive attitude without experiencing setbacks.
The results of this study can be used as basic data for educational programs for parents and learning programs for adolescents to improve adolescents' academic failure tolerance.