This study is to inquire into what relation home environment has to teenagers’ urges to run away. It issuppored that their mentation should be understood in their homes, as well as to grasp the real state of teenagers’ urges to run away and the su...
This study is to inquire into what relation home environment has to teenagers’ urges to run away. It issuppored that their mentation should be understood in their homes, as well as to grasp the real state of teenagers’ urges to run away and the sub-variables of home environment that affect such urges. In this context, this study has framed hypotheses as in the following:
First, teenagers who live with their parents feel less urge to run away than ones who do not so. Second, the better home functions, the less they feel urge to run away. Third, the functional environment of home is more related to their urge to run away than structural environment.
This study was conducted on 132 middle and high school students living in S-City and K-City, 126 of whom (58 males and 68 females) became the final subjects of this study.
The followings show the results of this study:
First, In relation to the structural fault, the post-hoc analysis shows that teenagers living in ‘divorced’ families feel more urge to run away than ones who do not so. Second, the hypothesis-2, “the better home functions, the less they feel urge to run away”, has been proved. In relation to children-parents relation, the post-hoc analysis shows that they feel more urge to run away when they are ‘inharmonious’ with their parents than ‘harmonious’ and ‘highly harmonious.’ Also, they feel more urge in the ‘indifferent’ relation than in ‘harmonious.’ Likewise, in relation to parents’ child-bearing attitude, they feel more urge to run away when their parents are ‘carefree’ with their children than ‘attentive’ and ‘highly attentive.’ Also, they feel more urge in the ‘indifferent’ care than in ‘attentive.’ In the case of conjugal relation, the ‘bad’ relation makes they feel the urge to run away as compared to ‘good.’ Taken altogether, the functional environment of home affects teenagers’ urges to run away, and the better home environment becomes, the less they feel urge to run away. Third, the hypothesis-3, “the functional environment of home is more related to their urge to run away than structural environment,” has been improved. But on the other hand, functional variables (children-parents relation, parents’ child-rearing attitude, and conjugal relation) explained them better.
This study has a limitation on sample size as it was confined to two cities and a small number of teenagers, but instead it is significant in the sense that the importance of home function has been dealt with in consideration of what it may prevent teenagers’ urges to run away. Moreover, the results of this study are expected to be used as important information to counsel teenagers.