The aim of this study was to examine the influence of adolescents-perceived parental upbringing attitudes and adolescents' self-efficacy upon their school adaptation according to their gender and school level, in order to work out a strategy of making...
The aim of this study was to examine the influence of adolescents-perceived parental upbringing attitudes and adolescents' self-efficacy upon their school adaptation according to their gender and school level, in order to work out a strategy of making parents recognize the significance of their upbringing attitudes at home and of improving adolescents' self-efficacy through educational support at school. Therefore, this study is based on the investigator's recognition that adolescents-perceived parental upbringing attitudes and adolescents' self-efficacy are crucial factors for adolescents' school adaptation.
Study subjects were 700 boy and girl students, consisting of first/second/third graders, and they were sampled from a boys' junior high school, a boys' high school, a coeducational junior high school, and a coeducational high school in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, and Jeolla-do. A questionnaire survey of them was carried out with 104 questions that examining the sub-variables of parental upbringing attitudes, and adolescents' self-efficacy and school adaptation. 580 responses were collected and among them 552 responses were statistically analyzed with the SPSS WIN 12.0 program, using such analytic methods as mean, standard deviation, t-test, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and stepwise analysis.
Study findings are as follows:
First, adolescents' gender has statistically significant influence upon adolescents-perceived parental upbringing attitudes. Girl students perceive parental upbringing attitudes as more controlling than boy students do. And girl students regard paternal upbringing attitudes as affectionate.
Second, adolescents' school-level has statistically significant influence upon adolescents-perceived self-efficacy and school adaptation. Junior high school students' self-efficacy and school adaptation are better than that of high school students.
Third, when adolescents-perceived parental upbringing attitudes and self-efficacy are positive, their school adaptation becomes better.
Fourth, when parents' gender is different from their child, parental upbringing attitudes have significant influence upon the child's school adaptation.
Fifth, parental upbringing attitudes have more significant influence upon students' school adaptation than maternal upbringing attitudes do.
Sixth, parents' rational and affectionate upbringing attitudes have statistically significant influence upon their child's school adaptation.
Seventh, the influence of self-efficacy upon school adaptation is more significant in boy students than in girl students and in junior high school students than in high school students.
Eighth, the general self-efficacy has significant influence upon students' teacher/life/lesson adaptation, whereas the social self-efficacy has significant influence upon students' friend adaptation
Study proposals are as follows:
First, because adolescence is the time when teenagers begin to acquire independence from their parents and shape their self-identity anxiously, they need profound understanding and consideration.
Second, in order for adolescents to grow uprightly and to be healthily adapted to school and social life, parents must recognize the importance of their upbringing attitudes.
Third, because parental upbringing attitudes that having influence upon adolescents' school adaptation are different by students' gender and school-level, the proper and diversified educational programs for parents are necessary.
Fourth, because adolescents' self-efficacy has a significant influence not only upon their school adaptation but also upon their growth and social adaptation, school and society must recognize the importance of adolescents' self-efficacy.
Fifth, it is necessary to develop a self-efficacy promotion program that is tailored to individual adolescents in order to help them to be adapted to school appropriately.