The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of adolesents' parent-adolescent communication, emotion intelligence and parentificaiton on psychological well-being.
This study is based on the survey of 810 adolescents' in their second year at...
The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of adolesents' parent-adolescent communication, emotion intelligence and parentificaiton on psychological well-being.
This study is based on the survey of 810 adolescents' in their second year at 2 middle schools and 2 high schools located in Seoul, Korea. With 712 validate questionnaires of returned 798 questionnaires, using SPSS WIN 12.0, we took the statics of frequency, Two-Way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, stepwise multiple regression analysis, simple regression analysis, multiple regression analysis.
The major results of this study were as follows: First, the parent-adolescent communication, parentification, and psychological well-being according to ages showed significant differences, while emotion intelligence was insignificant. As for parent-adolescent communication, junior-high school students had more open-communication than high school students, and in parentification, high school students had more parentification than junior-high school students. As for psychological well-being, junior-high school students had more than high school students. Meanwhile, there were no significant differences in the parent-adolescent communication, emotion intelligence, parentification, and psychological well-being according to gender.
Second, there were significant relations among parent-adolescent communication, emotion intelligence, parentification, and psychological well-being according to gender. Concretely as for junior-high school students, psychological well-being showed significant static relations to parent-adolescent communication and emotion intelligence and significant negative relation to parentification. However, as for high school students, significant static relations were shown in psychological well-being, parent-adolescent communication, and emotion intelligence, but no significant relation was revealed in parentification.
Third, in the relative effects of parent-adolescent communication, emotion intelligence, and parentification on psychological well-being, there were significant differences in affecting variables according to ages. Concretely, parent-adolescent communication was most effective on personal growth, self acceptance, positive relations with others, autonomy, purpose in life, and environmental mastery as the sub-region of psychological well-being. In particular, father-adolescent communication sufficiently affected psychological well-being. Meanwhile as for high school students, emotion intelligence was most effective on psychological well-being, except positive relations with others as the sub-region. Concretely, emotion recognition, emotion utilization, and emotion control were significantly effective among the sub-region of emotion intelligence·
Fourth, the relative effects of parent-adolescent communication, emotion intelligence, and parentification on psychological well-being showed difference according to the sub-factors of psychological well-being. Concretely as for junior-high school students, mother-adolescent communication was most effective on personal growth, while father-adolescent communication was most effective on self acceptance, positive relations with others, autonomy, purpose in life, and environmental mastery. Among the sub-factors of emotion intelligence, emotion utilization, emotion expression, emotion recognition, and emotion control were effective on psychological well-being. Among parentification, unfairness parentification and emotional parentification had significantly negative effects on psychological well-being. As for high school students, emotion intelligence was most effective on personal growth, self acceptance, autonomy, purpose in life, and environmental mastery as the sub-factors of psychological well-being. Concretely, emotion recognition, emotion utilization, emotion control, and emotion recognition were significantly effective as the sub-regions of emotion intelligence. However as for positive relations with others, unfairness parentification as the sub-factor of parentification was most negatively effective.
Fifth, emotion intelligence was shown to have partial mediation effect on the effects of parent-adolescent communication of adolescents on psychological well-being. The results indicate that emotion intelligence may serve as a significant coping resource for controling psychological well-being.
This study is significant in investigating the effects of parent-adolescent communication, emotion intelligence, and parentification on psychological well-being, identifying the mediation effect of emotion intelligence on the effects of parent-adolescent communication on psychological well-being, and then presenting information on major variables of psychological well-being of adolescents including importance of healthy communication and appropriate role sharing within a family and basic data for program development for improving emotion intelligence and for adolescent counseling and parent training.