고등학생의 스트레스, 대처, 우울과의 관계 = Relationship among Perceived Stress, Coping Behaviors, and Depression of High School Students

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of the study was to identify relationships among perceived stress, coping behaviors, and depression in high school students. A correlational descriptive design was conducted. A total of 763 subjects from high schools were participated by purposive sampling in this study. Three instruments, Korean translated Life Events Checklist(LEC) by Johnson and MeCutcheon(1980), Korean translated Coping Scale by Folkman and Lazarus(1985), and korean translated Beck Depression Inventory(BDI) by Beck(1967), were used. For LEC, internal consistency estimate for the tool was α=.73. For Coping Scale, internal consistency estimates for 4 subscales were α=.79～.94. In this study, there was statistically significant relationships between controllable and uncontrollable stress and coping behavior (p</05), indicating that the more stress high school students perceived, the more they used coping behavior. There was a significant relationships between controllable and uncontrollable stress and depression(p<.05), indicating that the more they perceived stress, the more they felt depressed. In addition, passive coping behavior was significantly correlated with depression(p<.05), indicating that high school students with the more passive coping behavior had high depression. There was, however, not statistically significant relationships between active coping behavior and depression. In conclusion, this finding has implication for strategies for adolescents to use positive coping under the controllable and uncontrollable stress in both home and school setting. Furthermore, this finding suggests the need of intervention strategies for both adolescents and families in systematic way to prevent depression of adolescents.