청소년의 정서문제, 진로정체감 및 삶의 만족도의 관계에서 학교적응의 매개효과

Abstract

Objectives This study examined the extend to which adolescents' emotion problems influenced their career identity and life satisfaction and the mediating effects of school adjustment.
 Methods The data were drawn from the sixth (T1, 3rd in middle school) and seventh (T2, 1st in high school) waves of the 2010 Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS). A total of 1,923 adolescents (boys, n=1,012; girls, n=911) participated in this study. Data were analyzed with structural equation modeling (SEM) using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 18.0.
 Results First, emotional problems had totally indirect effect on career identity sequentially through school adjustment. When third-year middle school adolescents have higher levels of emotional problems, they tended to have lower levels of school adjustment, which, in turn, led to less career identity after 1 year. Second, emotional problems indirectly influenced life satisfaction through school adjustment. That is, as adolescent’s emotional problems increased, their school adjustment decreased, finally leading to lower levels of life satisfaction.
 Conclusions These results add to a better understanding of the mechanism linking adolescent’s emotional problems to career identity and life satisfaction and especially emphasize the importance of school adjustment. These findings can serve as an important contribution to future research and practices for promoting adolescent’s career identity and life satisfaction.