This research was conducted to provide basic data for parents training programs to prevent adolescent problematic behaviors and facilitate communication between parents and adolescent children more smoothly and openly by understanding the effect of i...
This research was conducted to provide basic data for parents training programs to prevent adolescent problematic behaviors and facilitate communication between parents and adolescent children more smoothly and openly by understanding the effect of inter-parents and adolescent children communication and marital couples' conflicts.
The research hypotheses set in this study are as follows.
First, How different is adolescent children's problematic behaviors in social-demographic specifics?
Second, How related are between marital couples' conflicts and inter-parents and adolescent children communication type, and adolescent children's problematic behaviors?
Third, How explanatory is marital couples' conflicts and inter-parents and adolescent children communication type to adolescent children's problematic behaviors?
To verify the research tasks, a self-answering type questionnaire survey was to middle schools in S-City Kyungpook, and total 193 copies excluding insincere responses were used for the final analysis stats in this study.
The data analysis for performing this study was made through frequency analysis, t-verification and two-way variable analysis and inter-correlational analysis and hierarchial regression analysis using SPSS 17.0 programs.
The findings of this study were summarized as follows.
First, social-demographic variable showed male students go through problematic behaviors higher than female students, and the lower the parents' income, the higher problematic behaviors' experience.
Second, the relation of inter-parents and adolescent children communication and marital couples' conflicts, adolescent children's problematic behaviors showed significant correlations. Inter-parents and adolescent children communication and marital couples' conflicts showed significant correlations in adolescent children's problematic behaviors, especially, it was the highest in positive correlation with delinquency. Marital couples' conflicts and open-type inter-parents and adolescent children communication showed negative correlations and closed-type communication showed positive correlations.
Third, marital couples' conflicts has a direct effect on adolescent children's problematic behaviors, but considering inter-parents and adolescent children communication, explanatory power to adolescent children's problematic behaviors becomes weak and extinct. That is to say, adolescent children's problematic behaviors is controlled by parents' communication rather than marital couples' conflicts.
Namely, open and active inter-parents and adolescent children communication can prevent adolescent children's problematic behaviors in advance. Thus family members in each family needs to make effort to do an open and active communication and schools, government agencies or community groups will have to pay more attention to training of inter-parents and adolescent children communication skills.