청소년의 학교생활실태 및 학교생활만족도 = A Study on the Adolescents′ School Life and Their Level of Satisfaction

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was designed to investigate the relationships among adolescent′s study load, peer relationships, school violence and their level of satisfaction with school life. Its purpose was not only to identify and describe their overall school life, but most importantly, to provide baseline data to develop intervention programs that shall improve the level of adolescents′satisfaction with school life. The analysis of data revealed the following results: 1. Adolescents felt highly stressed by their studies. The mean score was 3.40 out of 5 points. 2. Adolescents were highly intimate and relatively low confident with their friends, 4.28 and 3.82 respectively. 3. Approximately half of the respondents(45.4%) had an experience of making their classmates feel "exclusive". In connection, 27% had been involved in school violence. 4. The mean score of adolescents′ level of satisfaction with school life was 2.33. The resets of the study also revealed that students in the rural areas are more satisfied with their school life than in Seoul area Similarly, those in vocational schools are more satisfied than those in regular schools.