중학생의 학업열의 영향 변인 탐색

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of middle school students' gender, life satisfaction, happiness, self-esteem, attention, cooperation, grit and school location, school life satisfaction, friend relationship, and teacher relationship on academic engagement.
 Methods For this study, 2,329 responses of the 3rd wave(3rd grade of middle school) of the Korean Children & Youth Panel Survey(KCYPS) were analyzed. For applying multi-level modeling(two-level) a basic model and a research model were established, and the influence of variables affecting academic engagement was analyzed by inputting variables at the student level and school level.
 Results First, it was found that 7.3% of the total variance explaining the academic engagement of middle school students was affected by school characteristics. Second, looking at the influence of independent variables at the student-level was male students higher than female students, and the higher life satisfaction, cooperation, and grit, the lower attention, the higher academic engagement. Third, looking ant the influence of school-level variables, it was found that the friend relationship had a negative effect on academic engagement, while the teacher relationship showed a positive effect.
 Conclusions Based on the results of this study, for promoting academic engagement, implications for changes in students' attitudes by improving in the curriculum and the academic atmosphere and follow-up studies that complementary relationships between personal and environmental factors was suggested.