Abstract

This study was conducted for the purpose of preparing basic data for counseling interventions for middle school students by verifying the mediating effect of psychological pain in the relationship between the parenting attitude type perceived by middle school students and school adjustment. To this end, 389 students enrolled in middle schools located in N city were surveyed, and descriptive statistics, correlations, t-test, and mediating effects were analyzed using SPSS 23 and PROCESS Macro's Model 4. The results of the study are as follows. First, it was found that there was a significant positive correlation between positive parental attitude and school adjustment, and a significant negative correlation with negative parental attitude. Second, it was found that female students perceived psychological pain more than male students. Third, it was found that psychological pain had a partial mediating effect in the relationship between the positive parenting attitude perceived by middle school students and school adjustment. Fourth, psychological pain was found to have a partial mediating effect in the relationship between the negative parenting attitude perceived by middle school students and school adjustment. Based on the results of this study, limitations and suggestions for subsequent studies were discussed.

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