초등학교 아동의 스트레스 요인에 관한 연구 = Stressors of Elementary School Students

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study investigated stressors of elementary school students by means of empirical survey based on the following questions.
1) How much is the level of stress of elementary school children?
2) Are there any difference in the level of stress in terms of sex, residence and birth order of elementary school children?
3) What are major factors influencing stress of elementary school children?
4) What kind of coping strategy do elementary school children usually use?
In solving these questions, 35-item questionnaire which asks stress about 4 basic factors was constructed. The four basic factors were individual factor, home factor, school factor and social factor, and each factor was divided into 2 ~ 4 subfactors. 685 4th-, 5th-, 6th-grade students responded to the questionnaire. Results are as followed.
Overall stress level of elementary school students is not very high. It is found that home factor elicited the lowest stress among the basic factors, on the other hand, learning pressure elicted the highest stress among the subfactors.
The difference of stress level between male and female is not significant, but the stress level of urban students is significantly higher than that of rural students. And the difference across the birth order is not significant except for some subfactors.
Results of multiple regression analysis show that home, school and social factor among the 4 basic factors and learning pressure, prejudice, relationship to parents and relationship to teacher among the 12 subfactors predict the level of stress.
Finally, it is found that listening to the music, playing computer game, sleeping and seeing cartoons are favored as coping strategy by elementary school students.