The purpose of this research is to understand the relation between parental rearing attitude, emotional intelligence, stress coping behavior, and school stress and to verify predictability of parental rearing attitude and emotional intelligence on str...
The purpose of this research is to understand the relation between parental rearing attitude, emotional intelligence, stress coping behavior, and school stress and to verify predictability of parental rearing attitude and emotional intelligence on stress coping behavior and predictability of stress coping behavior on school stress.
1014 male and female students from J, S, M middle school in Suwon, which is a medium-sized city, has been selected as research objects. The research was conducted from 13th June 2010 to 6th July 2010.
First, there was correlation between sub-variables of parental rearing attitude, emotional intelligence, stress coping behavior, and school stress. When students tend to recognize their parental rearing attitude as accomplishable, their emotional intelligence showed high value. Among emotional intelligence, the more thinking promoting ability and empathy ability develop, the more efficiently students utilize stress coping behavior. In addition, emotional intelligence showed stronger correlation to stress coping behavior than to parental rearing attitude. Parental rearing attitude and emotional intelligence, which are the resources of students, turned out to be more efficient in decreasing school stress than stress coping behavior. Accordingly, if students internal · external resources are abundant, they tend to get less stress from school.
Second, in model 1, stress coping behavior was set as dependent variable. When parental rearing attitude was applied to the model, it showed that accomplishable and affectional parental rearing attitude had significant effect on stress coping behavior. In model 2, stress coping behavior was set as dependent variable. Parental rearing attitude and emotional intelligence were applied to it. The result turned out that thinking promoting ability which is one of the sub-variables of emotional intelligence came out to be the most important prediction variable to stress coping behavior. It implies need for the education and the program for thinking promoting ability. However, parental rearing attitude is basis of development of emotional intelligence. Therefore, the education for development of students' emotional intelligence should be accompanied by the education for parents.
Third, when school stress was set as a dependent variable and stress coping behavior was applied to the model, among the sub-variables of school stress, learning factor decreased the stress by problem-oriented coping behavior. However, it increased the stress by wishful-thinking coping behavior. In friend factor, stress was decreased by problem-oriented coping behavior. However, the stress was increased by emotional-relaxation coping behavior. Meanwhile, emotional-relaxation coping behavior increased the stress in teacher and school-life factor. Middle school students occasionally suppress their emotion and accept conditional demand in learning and friend relationship, but they often try to solve problems to fulfil their wants and change their environments. However, in the relationship with teacher and in school-life, they mostly suppress their emotion to accept conditional demand. This implies that the relationship with teachers or school life might be authoritative. Accordingly, continuous research on school stress coping behavior and incremental improvement of school environment are required.
In this research, parental rearing attitude, emotional intelligence, stress coping behavior, and school stress showed correlation between their sub-variables. parental rearing attitude is verified to have important role in developing emotional intelligence of child. In addition, emotional intelligence of middle school students tends to have stronger effect on stress coping behavior than parental rearing attitude. Especially, thinking promoting ability, which is one of the sub-variables of emotional intelligence, is verified to have very strong effect on stress coping behavior. Accordingly, in coping with stress related to learning, friends, teachers and school-life of middle school students, various coping behaviors are needed to be utilized. And continuous research on this matter should be followed.