The purposes of this study were to examine the effects of adolescents’ leisure activities and peer attachment on the adaptation to their school life and based on the results, to develop the programs improving the school life adaptation. In order to ...
The purposes of this study were to examine the effects of adolescents’ leisure activities and peer attachment on the adaptation to their school life and based on the results, to develop the programs improving the school life adaptation. In order to do that, the subjects of this study were 398 male and female adolescents in academic high schools, vocational high schools as well as youth centers and analyzed the data. Conclusions drawn from this study are as follows.
First, adolescents appeared to adapt best to their relationship with fellows, well to the observance of school rules, badly to classes, and worse to their relationship with teachers.
Second, male adolescents, adolescents in academic high schools, adolescents with middle grades, and adolescent in youth center adapted better in their school life than female adolescents, those in vocational high schools, those with low grades and those in high schools did.
Third, the level of the school life adaptation increased more when both leisure activities and peer attachment were provided than when only leisure activities were applied. For leisure activities, the more leisure satisfaction adolescents had, the more school life adaptation they achieved. In respect of peer attachment, the better communication and trust between peers they had, the better adaptation to their school life they could have.
Lastly, leisure satisfaction affected the relationship with teachers and observance of school rules, communication affected the relationship with teachers and fellows, and classes, while confidence had influence on the relationship between fellows and observance of school rules.
Based on these results, I suggested four practical social-welfare plans to improve adolescents’ school life adaptation
First, in order for adolescents to adjust their school life better, schools need to encourage club activities and develop various after-school programs for adolescents to have chances to enjoy leisure activities.
Second, since adolescents highly depend on their peers and are afflicted with the relationship between their friends, schools need to provide relationship improvement programs and support peer-counselors.
Third, since co-application of leisure activities and peer-attachment have greater effects on school life adaptation, schools need to develop the leisure activity programs that adolescents can do with their peers.
Lastly, in order to prevent juvenile delinquency through the effective collaboration among adolescents, schools, family and local community, school social work needs to be institutionalized. Especially, youth centers in local areas and schools need to cooperate to seek out various intervention solutions for adolescents.