The purpose of this study is to investigate various social support for improving the adaption to the school life of sons and daughters in one parent families by clearing up the relation between social support and adaption to school life which sons and...
The purpose of this study is to investigate various social support for improving the adaption to the school life of sons and daughters in one parent families by clearing up the relation between social support and adaption to school life which sons and daughters in a one parent family have. And for this, we set up study problems like following:
First, is there any difference on social support for sons and daughters in one parent families depending on sex and family style?
Second, is there any difference on adaption to school life of sons and daughters in one parent families depending on sex and family style?
Third, is there any correlation between social support for sons and daughters in one parent families and adaption to school life?
To solve these problems, the subjects, consisting of 108 middle schools students in one parent families, were drawn from first and second grade classes of middle school located in Jeju-do. We measured the degree of social support and adaption to school life using a questionnaire on Social Support by Kim, Seung-Mi(1998) and a questionnaire on Adaption to School Life by Yu, Yun-Hui(1994) and analyzed collected data using SPSS program coping with the purpose of this study.
The results of this study obtained through this process are as follows:
First, boys have higher social support than girls in social support for sons and daughters in one parent families.
Second, social support for sons and daughters in a family composed of mother and children is higher than in a family composed of father and children.
Third, boy students have a higher degree of adapting to school life than girl students in adapting to school life for sons and daughters in one parent families.
Fourth, the higher social support for sons and daughters in one parent families is, the higher degree of adapting to school life is. In the case of boy students in one parent families, the support from friends is especially needed, whereas in case of girl students, the support from parents is needed.
In conclusion, sons and daughters in one parent families adapt to school life more better as social support is higher, so social support from parents, teachers, and friends needs to be provided for them to adapt to school life. It suggests that boy students especially need friends' support, whereas girl students need parents' support.