초등학생의 삶의 만족도 변화궤적과 학교요인의 동시 및 지연효과 연구

Abstract

Objectives This study investigated the changing trajectory of life satisfaction and contemporaneous and lagged effects of three sources of school factors(peer and teacher relationships, subjective academic achievement) in elementary school students.
 Methods For this purpose, data from the 1 wave to 3 wave (4th to 6th grades) of the Korean Children & Youth Panel Survey 2018 (KCYPS 2018) conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute were used. The latent growth modeling was applied as a method to analyze the changing trajectory of life satisfaction and contemporaneous and lagged effects of the School factors over the three years. SPSS 26.0 and Mplus 8.7 were used for data processing and analysis.
 Results First, life satisfaction of students appeared to decrease during elementary school years. Second, the contemporaneous effect of three sources of school factors (peer and teacher relationships, subjective academic achievement) on life satisfaction were positively significant at 4th, 5th and 6th grades. In particular, among school factors, at the 4th grades, the peer relationship showed a relatively high influence, while at the 5th and 6th grades, the influence of the teacher relationship on life satisfaction was appeared relatively high. Also, it was confirmed that the lagged effect of peer and teacher relationship at the 4th grades had a significant effect on life satisfaction at the 5th grades, and the teacher relationship on at the 5th grades The lagged effect that has a positive effect on life satisfaction at the 6th grades was confirmed. Third, as a result of analyzing the difference in life satisfaction change trajectories according to gender, it was confirmed that male students had higher life satisfaction than female students.
 Conclusions Based on these results, implications for the improvement of elementary students' life satisfaction and suggestions for follow-up research were presented.