Abstract

The purpose of this study was to present basic data to prevent dropout by investigating and analyzing the characteristics of interpersonal problems related to maladjustment or dropout of college freshmen. To achieve this goal, 405 freshmen from K University in Daegu(117 males·288 females, 138 natural science majors·144 humanities and social science majors·123 artistic and physical education majors) were tested for interpersonal problems. The results were analyzed. The measurement tool is the Korean Inventory of Interpersonal Problem(KIIP), a self-report test with 99 questions. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, frequency analysis, and correlation analysis were conducted using the SPSS program. As a result of this study, it was found that the area of social inhibition was the highest in interpersonal problems, and the average of interpersonal problems was the highest among students in the humanities, social sciences and arts and physical education. All of the highest areas on the personality disorder scale were lack of sociability. In the personality disorder scale, interpersonal hypersensitivity and interpersonal non-acceptance were the subscale that had the highest correlation with the overall score. After analyzing the correlation between the entire interpersonal problem scale and the personality disorder scale, it was found that egocentrism had the highest correlation. In conclusion, since college freshmen have difficulties such as social inhibition, non-assertiveness, hyper-conformity, and deficiency of sociability, it seems that various programs are needed to help them.

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