This report is to investigate how kind of social support, social supporter, size of social networks effect Self-esteem, school adjustment, maladjusted behaviour of institutionalized children.
For the purpose of this study above, questions below are s...
This report is to investigate how kind of social support, social supporter, size of social networks effect Self-esteem, school adjustment, maladjusted behaviour of institutionalized children.
For the purpose of this study above, questions below are set.
1. How institutionalized children aware the level of social support (kind of social support, social supporter, size of social network) ?
2. How is the level of adjustment of institutionalized children (self esteem, school adjustment, maladjusted behaviour) ?
3. How social support that institutionalized children realised affect adjustment ?
This investigation is operated based on 4,5,6 th grade elementary school students and 1,2,3rd grade middle school students from nine institutionalized children in Kang Won Do area and from the total number of 150 questionnaire, 147 are used for analysing.
Ji Won Park?s(1985) Social Support Scale, Rosenberg?s(1965) Self-esteem Scale, Ho Kwon Kim?s school adjustment scale, Achenbach & Quay?s(1978) Emotional Maladjusted Behaviour are used for this investigation as the instruments and completed with Likert quesionaire.
For the data analysis, program SPSS PC+10.0(spss pc+ 10.0 system for windows program) is used to solve Descriptive Statistics, T-Test(independent samples t-test), One Way Anova, Tukey (post hoc multiple comparisons-tukey HSD), Pearson correlation of pearson, Multiple Linear Regression.
In brief of the result of this investigation, first of all, the level of social support is?middle?which says the institutionalized children are not getting enough support and the number of supporters are only two, the size of social network is also extremely limited. For the second, institutionalized children?s level of self-esteem is below?average?, generally low the level was. In case of school life, most of institutionalized children averagely adjust but in their study, the level of their adjustment was low, this result shows that the children are having troubles with their education. Those who has maladjusted behaviour generally appeal below?average?, is not that serious.
Finally, as the result on the effect of social support to adjustment of institutionalized children, from social support, emotional support works in good way and as the supporter, teacher at school is a lot of help to the school adjustment of the children. The existence and non-existence of parent is also significant influence to the children as general trait variables.