고등학생의 학업스트레스가 학교생활적응에 미치는 영향에서 학업적 자기효능감의 매개효과

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to investigate relationship between high school students’academic stress, academic self-efficacy and adaptation to school life, and, then verify the mediating effect of academic self-efficacy on the realtionship between academic stress and adaptation to school life.
 Methods In this regard, targeting 324 high-schoolers residing in J-province, we applied descriptive statistics techniques, correlation anaysis and verified the mediating effect within the variables.
 Results The reults of this study are as follows. First, academic stress of high school students showed significant negative correlation with adaptation to school life while revealing significant negative correlation with academic self-efficacy. In addition, adaptation to school life exposed statistically significant negative correlation with academic self-efficacy. Second, academic self-efficacy was verified to function as full mediation in the case that academic stress affected adaptation to school life. Namely, this could lead to the interpretation that acedmic stress would be helpful in adaptation to school life through academic self-efficacy.
 Conclusions This study comes up with the implication in that it investigated the importance of academic self-efficacy in the influence of academic stress and adaptaton to school life.