고등학생의 행복에 대한 귀인 요인 분석

Abstract

Objectives Recently, while the importance of human rights and happiness of children and adolescents has been highlighted, it is reported that Korean adolescents have a significantly lower sense of happiness compared to adolescents from other countries. In such a situation, it is very important to find out what the youth thinks of happiness and in what circumstances they feel it is very important in that it lays the basis for interventions for their happiness in the future. Therefore, in this study, the purpose of this study was to find out what the factors attributing happiness to high school students were.
 Methods To achieve the purpose of this study, an open-ended questionnaire survey was conducted to collect questions from high school students located in Chungcheongnam-do. Preliminary questions about the reasons for happiness and unhappiness were collected through the questionnaire, and a test tool for happiness attribution was developed through item relevance evaluation.
 Results The results obtained in this study are first, according to the thematic analysis results, high school students attribute happiness to seven factors: family factor, friendship, relationship with the opposite sex, personal characteristics, ability, effort, and life satisfaction. Second, as a result of factor analysis of 90 happiness statements through item relevance evaluation, a total of five factors were analyzed: family factor, personal characteristics, life satisfaction, self-efficacy, and friendship.
 Conclusions This study has significance as a study related to the happiness of adolescents in that the sense of happiness felt during adolescence plays an important role in helping adolescents acquire a sense of identity and lead their own inner growth to grow into correct adults. In addition, it can be seen as a meaningful study in that it tried to systematically elucidate the factors of happiness by analyzing the validity of the classification revealed in the subject analysis method through factor analysis in detail.