This study was intended to identify how the social support, Ego-resiliency and Stress Coping Strategies were related on School-Dropout Adolescents helping them take an appropriate action on adaptation and seeking for individual and environmental varia...
This study was intended to identify how the social support, Ego-resiliency and Stress Coping Strategies were related on School-Dropout Adolescents helping them take an appropriate action on adaptation and seeking for individual and environmental variables that could reduce various types of stress from home, school, and society. Therefore, this study aimed to improve ego-resiliency as an inner resource needed to take a flexible and adaptive action under stress and to research about social support as an environmental resource serving as an absorbing effect from the stress as an attempt to represent how important ego-resiliency and social support were based on aforementioned relationship. In addition, it was also intended to provide fundamental resources as to how social support recognized or provided in the environment was a variable in helping School-Dropout Adolescents as well as aiding them to adaptively cope with stress in the social environment surrounding them. In order to achieve aforementioned objective, relationship between social support, ego-resiliency, and Stress Coping Strategies of School-Dropout Adolescents was deeply examined.
Research subjects were School-Dropout Adolescents in Daejeon, Chungnam, and Chungbuk that survey was conducted on 101 juveniles after requesting to the juvenile supporting business outside of schools in each region (Do-Dream, Haemil), youth detention center, juvenile rehabilitation center (Hyokwangwon center), and etc. As for analysis method, descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and hierarchical regression analysis were conducted.
Results of this study are as follows.
First, according to the result of identifying whether there was difference on the social support, ego-resiliency, and Stress Coping Strategies depending on the social-demographic variables, whether School-Dropout Adolescents conducted misdeeds or not and academic background of their mothers commonly represented a significant difference.
Second, hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to examine a relative explaining power on the social support, ego-resiliency, and Stress Coping Strategies. School-Dropout Adolescents were turned out to have a higher explaining power on social support in terms of coping with stress. Among them, they were shown to recognize peer support as an important supporting source. In addition, they represented more significant explaining power on the way of coping with stress when they had ego-resiliency as an inner variable of individuals and also social support as an environmental variable. As mentioned above, the variable influencing on School-Dropout Adolescents the most was peer support among types of social support. However, as higher explaining power was shown when School-Dropout Adolescents had ego-resiliency as an inner variable of individuals, a role of ego-resiliency was turned out to be an important variable. In other words, when social support perceived by School-Dropout Adolescents was high, it was shown that School-Dropout Adolescents were able to utilize more diverse, positive, and adaptive Stress Coping Strategies when they had ego-resiliency.