The purpose of the study was to specify the effects of gender, grade and family´s socioeconomic status to adolescents´s adjustment in family life and school life, to explore the influences of self-resilience, positive emotion and social supports on ...
The purpose of the study was to specify the effects of gender, grade and family´s socioeconomic status to adolescents´s adjustment in family life and school life, to explore the influences of self-resilience, positive emotion and social supports on adolescents´ adjustment in family life and school life, and to find the differences in level of self-resilience, positive emotion and social supports according to the adjustment type.
The data were collected from 638 middle school students in pusan through the questionnaire method, were analyzed by the SAS program.
The major findings were as follows;
1. The score of family life adjustment was higher than the score of school life adjustment. The adolescents´ adjustment in family life and school life were differed by grade. The higher family´s socioeconomic status adolescents adjusted better in family life.
2. In general, adjustment in family life was affected by mother´s support, father´s supports, self-resilience, positive emotion, peer´s support. The best effective factor of adjustment in family life was social supports from mother. Factors that affected adjustment in family life were different depending on sex, grade, and family´s socioeconomic status. The boy´s adjustment in family life was affected by teacher´s supports, but girl´s adjustment in family life was not. The girl´s adjustment in family life was affected by peer´s supports. The first grader was influenced by teacher´s supports for their adjustment in family life. The adjustment in family life of the low family´s socioeconomic status adolescents was affected by peer´s supports.
3. In general, the adjustment in school life was increased by teacher´s supports, self-resilience, mother´s support, and positive emotion. The best effective factor of adjustment in school life was different depending on their sex, grade and family´s socioeconomic status. The girl´s adjustment in school life was influenced by mother´s supports and positive emotion. The second grader´s adjustment in school life was influenced by mother´s supports, and the third grader´s adjustment in school life was influenced by peer´s supports. The middle family´s socioeconomic status adolescents was affected by peer´s supports.
4. Self-resilience, positive emotion and social supports were different according to the adjustment type. Adjusted type has highest self-resilience, positive emotion and social supports and Maladjusted type has lowest self-resilience, positive emotion and social supports from teacher and peer were lower than those of adjusted type. School adjusted type´s self-resilience, positive emotion and social supports were lower than those of adjusted type.