This study intend to clarify relative importance and character of the adolescent`s attachment-objects. For this purpose, it verifies the differences among adolescent`s father, mother and peer attachment according to their sex, economic levels and educ...
This study intend to clarify relative importance and character of the adolescent`s attachment-objects. For this purpose, it verifies the differences among adolescent`s father, mother and peer attachment according to their sex, economic levels and educational levels of parents, and examines the effect which father, mother and peer attachments have on their delf-efficacy and adaptation to their school life. And lastly, it attempts to find out whether the self efficacy would do the role of a mediator in the relationship between attachment and adaptation to school life. The subjects were 480 male and female students in the five and six grade of a elementary school in Busan. The results of the study were as follows. First, there was a significant difference ing the attachment on father, mother and peer according to their sex and grades. Female students had strong attachment on mother and peer, and the lower grade of the students were the stronger attachment on their father and mother. Second, there was a significant effect which father, mother and peer attachment had on adolescents` self-efficacy. Adolescents had the stronger self-efficacy as they had the higher attachment. Third, Concerning the effect which father, mother and peer attachment had on adaptation to the school life, there was significant effect on it. the higher the adolescent`s attachment was, the higher the degree of adaption of their school life was. Fourth, there was a significant effect which self-efficacy had on the adaptation of adolecents` school life. The higher self-efficacy the adolescents have, the higher degree of adaptation of school life they have. Fifth, As a result of a path analysis of father, mother, and peer attachment, it was found that the self-efficacy had a mediating effect in the relationship between the attachment and the adaptation of school life. Expecially, it was found that the effect that father and mother attachment had on the adaptation of adolescents` school life was direct one, while the defect that peer attachment had on adaptation of school life was indirect one.