This study aimed to investigate the relationship between leadership life skills, and social support provided by parents, teachers, and friends.
The subjects of this study were 285 student (male: 146, female: 129) of elementary school in Gyeonggi prov...
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between leadership life skills, and social support provided by parents, teachers, and friends.
The subjects of this study were 285 student (male: 146, female: 129) of elementary school in Gyeonggi province.
The relationships between personal variables and social-support, social-support and leadership life skills were analyzed by the simplified correlation analysis. The multiplied regression analysis was conducted to understand the influence of personal variables and variables of support providers on leadership life skills.
First, regardless of support types, students with significant friend support, leadership roles within the class, many academic achievements, and high marks perceived themselves to receive more social support than those who lacked these qualities.
Second, female students perceived the support of their friends more than male students. The female students believe that significant friend support, leadership roles within the class, many academic achievements, and high marks will help them receive more social support.
Third, social-support and leadership life skills had a positive correlation. The students who receive more emotional support tend to have stronger leadership life skills. Students perceive that among all the leadership life skill types, strong human relation skills will amount to more social support.
Fourth, students believe that the support received from friends plays the largest role in successfully acquiring leadership life skills. Therefore, friends are the most influential support providers followed by parents, teachers and additional outside figureheads.
In conclusion, emotional support and the support of friends are perceived to be the largest contributors in developing strong leadership life skills. Additional support systems such as, family members, teacher, and classroom achievement are also necessary to develop leadership life skills.