The purpose of this study is two-folds: One is to find out personal and environmental factors that would influence on social competence and subjective well-being of junior-high students from youth-headed family. The other is to identify protective fac...
The purpose of this study is two-folds: One is to find out personal and environmental factors that would influence on social competence and subjective well-being of junior-high students from youth-headed family. The other is to identify protective factors that would differentiate resilient adolescents from fragile and vulnerable ones. A total of 104 adolescents attending junior-high schools in Seoul and Kyounggi province participated in this study. Their home-room teachers were asked to complete 'Teacher-Child Rating Scale(Hightower, 1986).' Adolescents were asked to respond to questionaires on 'Daily Hassle Scale(Han & Yoo, 1995)', 'KEDI Intelligence Test(Park, et al., 1993)', The Big Five(Costa & McCraed, 1995)', 'Prestatic Motivation Test(Herman, 1970), 'Social Support Appraisal Scale(Dubow & Ulman, 1989)', and 'Adolescent-Perceived Microsystem Scale(Seidman et al., 1995).' The data were analized by using SPSS 12.0 to run descriptive statistics, Pearson correlations, multiple regressions, and descriminant analysis. The results of this study were as follows: Adolescents who had higher intelligence and agreeableness in personality as well as higher motivation, showed higher social competence. The more they perceived teacher's support, the better they performed social competence. Adolescents who experienced high subjective well-being had better scores in emotional stability and extroversion in personality, motivation, family's support, and extracurricular activities. The personal factors discriminating resilient adolescents from vulnerable ones were extroversion in personality, intelligence, motivation, openness and agreeableness in personality. The environmental factors were social support including families, teachers and significant others. In conclusion, these findings support the previous ideas that resilient adolescents have distinctive personal and environmental factors in multiple domains of social adaptation