The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between social-support and ego-resilience of elementary school students.
In order to achieve this purpose of study, the research questions were as follows:
First, are there gender differ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between social-support and ego-resilience of elementary school students.
In order to achieve this purpose of study, the research questions were as follows:
First, are there gender differences in the level of social-support of elementary school students?
Second, are there gender differences in the level of ego-resilience of elementary school students?
Third, are there any relationships between the level of social-support and ego-resilience of elementary school students?
In order to solve this study problems, 227 elementary school students(141 boys, 136 girls) were selected. The measurement instrument used for measuring social-support in this study was "Social-Support Standard," devised by Park Ji-Won(1985), revised and supplemented by Hwang Yoon Kyung(1996) and Ryu Mi Ra(2002). And the measurement instruments used for measuring the level of ego-resilience was ego-resilience questionnaire by Shin Ji Yon's(2004) revision of Park Eun Hee's(1996) model, which is based on the model of O'Connell-Higgins(1983) and Block & Kremen(1996). SAS program was used to discover the relations between social-support and ego-resilience. The data were analyzed by t-test.
The results of this study were as follows:
First, there were no significant gender differences in the level of emotion-support, evaluation-support, information-support and physical-support.
Second, there were significant gender differences in self-resilience. Girls showed a significantly higher level of inter-personal relationship and vitality(energy) but didn‘t show no difference in the level of emotion control, curiosity and optimism.
Third, there were significant differences in social-support(emotion-support, evaluation-support, information-support, physical-support) and sub-items of ego-resilience(inter-personal relationship, vitality, curiosity and optimism) between higher group and lower group of elementary school students.
When considering these results, in general, high level children of social-support from their parents showed high self-resilience. So Children have to receive positive social-support from their parents. Based on these finding, I hope this study can function as the basis in acknowledging the positive effects of active parental social-support on the enhancement of a child's self-resilience level.