학교공동체의식, 또래관계, 사회⋅정서역량과 방어행동 간의 초⋅중등 다집단 메타경로분석

Abstract

Objectives The current study aimed to explore the relationship between a person and its embedded ecological systems using multi-group (primary vs. secondary) meta-path analysis. Through this, the significance of the indirect effect of social-emotional competence was determined in the path model of connecting environmental variables of sense of school community and peer relationship to defending behavior. Finally, we tested whether the mediating effect of social-emotional competence in the entire group differed by school level (primary vs. secondary). Methods A multi-group meta-path analysis was conducted on domestic academic journals (29 articles), master's and doctoral dissertations, and candidates for entry journals (28 articles) from 2007 to June 2021. Two-step processes were performed for meta-path analysis (a) the mean correlation coefficient, that is, a pooled correlation matrix was obtained using the random effect model for the correlation between each study, and (b) direct and indirect effects were examined using meta-path analyses. Results In the meta-path analysis for entire and middle school students, direct and indirect effects were significant in all paths among the sense of school community factor, the peer relationship factor, the social-emotional competence factor, and the defending behavior factor. However, in elementary school students, social-emotional competencies mediated fully the relationship between the sense of school community and defending behavior. Still, social-emotional competence did not mediate the relationship between peer relations and defending behavior. Conclusions This study confirmed that elementary and middle school students had different pathways in the model in which sense of school community and peer relationship impacted the defending behavior through individual social-emotional competence.