The purpose of these studies was to investigate the effects of parent-adolescent communication types on adolescent's psychological well-being such as depression, self-esteem and family life satisfaction.
The subjects were 557 students of boys' and gi...
The purpose of these studies was to investigate the effects of parent-adolescent communication types on adolescent's psychological well-being such as depression, self-esteem and family life satisfaction.
The subjects were 557 students of boys' and girls' middle school located in Pohang.
The instruments used for parent-adolescent communication types were PAC(Parent-Adolescent Communication Inventory) by Barens & Olson, and those for psychological well-being of adolescent were Self-esteem Inventory by Rosenberg, CES-D(The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale) by Ubrich and Family Life Satisfaction scale by Choi Kyu reon.
Statistical methods applied to this study were Frequency, ANOVA, MANOVA, Pearson's Correlation analysis, Multiple Regression.
Cronbach's α was calculated in order to prove reliability of instruments used for this study.
The results of this study were as follows;
The first, the parent-adolescent communication by socio-demographic variables reveals that the difference of communication types between parent and adolescency in worse family situation and lower academic background of parent was closed, whereas the communication in better family situation and higher academic background was opened.
The second, The difference of adolescent psychological well-being by socio-demographic variables was showed which the adolescent groups with worse family situation and lower academic background of parent in a depression scale had higher scores than the other groups.
On the other hand, the group with better family situation and higher academic background, and girl students in a self-esteem had higher scores than the other groups.
The higher scores of family life satisfaction had in the groups of better family situation, religion, higher academic background of parent, younger age.
The third, the correlation between adolescent psychological well-being and their communication's types revealed the closed communication of parent- adolescency was negative, whereas that between the well-being and opened communication was positive.
No correlation self-esteem of the children, and closed communication between father and child was showed.
The fourth, the difference of adolescent psychological well-being scale by parent-adolescency communication showed that the groups with higher closed communication had higher scores on depression scale and lower scores on self-esteem and family life satisfaction,
On the other hand, the groups with opened communication had lower scores on depression and higher scores on self-esteem and family life satisfaction.
Finally, the orders of variables with an influence on adolescency depression were closed communication between mother and adolescency > opened communication between father and adolescency > parent's academic background > family situation of adolescency.
The orders of self-esteem and family life satisfaction were also opened communication between father and adolescency > opened communication between mother and adolescency > sex of adolescency > age of adolescency, and opened communication between father and adolescency > family situation > sex, respectively.
The results of this research indicated that in view of an educational situation in Korea, the opened communication between father and adolescency had an influence on adolescent psychological well-being such as depression, self-esteem and family life satisfaction.