This paper is a comprehensive study on how the family's psychological environment affects juveniles in this ever-changing modern society by conducting a survey on teenagers living in Jinju, southern part of Korea. The survey was conducted on 402 stude...
This paper is a comprehensive study on how the family's psychological environment affects juveniles in this ever-changing modern society by conducting a survey on teenagers living in Jinju, southern part of Korea. The survey was conducted on 402 students in Junior high schools in the Jinju city.The results are as follows: 1. On the students satisfaction with his/her familys psychological environment, the respondents gave 3.5 points of the perfect 5. With regard to social, demographical and individual factors that affect their family lives, most of the teenagers pointed to economic power and self-esteem. 2. When asked how well they adapt to their school lives, the teenagers gave 3.31 points out of 5. On social, demographical and individual factors that affect their school lives, the respondents mentioned gender, economic power, a monthly allowance, mothers job and self-esteem.3. The family's psychological environment of adolescent was shown to be the most important factor on their school life.