부모의 자율성 지지가 대학생의 심리적 행복감에 미치는 영향: 긍정심리자본의 매개효과 검증

Abstract

This study aims to validate the role of positive psychological capital in the structural relationship between parental autonomy support and college students’ psychological happiness based on self-determination theory. The study also aims to explore practical interventions to promote psychological happiness among college students based on empirical evidence. The research method was to distribute questionnaires to college students in Busan Metropolitan City and Gyeongsangnam-do Province from September 2023 to November 2023, and statistically analyzed using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0 programs based on 289 data without missing data. The findings were as follows First, higher levels of parental autonomy support were associated with higher levels of psychological well-being. Second, higher levels of parental autonomy support were associated with higher levels of positive psychological capital. Third, higher levels of positive psychological capital were associated with higher levels of psychological happiness. Fourth, indirectly, positive psychological capital was found to have a partial mediating effect on the relationship between parental autonomy support and psychological happiness. These findings have implications for providing an empirical basis for enhancing self-determination and promoting psychological happiness in college students, who are pre-socialized adults. Therefore, it can be applied directly to parent education programs that enable parents to promote their positive psychological capital and psychological well-being through supporting college students’ autonomy, and indirectly to family counseling and family therapy to promote family members’ self-determination.