청소년의 차별경험이 자살생각에 미치는 영향에서 부모와의 소통과 학교생활의 조절된 매개효과 연구

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to test the moderated mediating effects of communication with parents and school life on relations between adolescents' discrimination experiences and suicidal ideation.
 Methods The study analyzed the data of 6,291 middle and high school students from “2019 Survey on the Human Rights of Children and Adolescents” by the National Youth Policy Institute and set discrimination experiences as an independent variable, suicidal ideation as a dependent variable, communication with parents as a parameter, and school life as a moderating variable in the research model.
 Results The analysis results show that adolescents' discrimination experiences had positive effects on their suicidal ideation and that communication with parents played a mediating role between them. School life had moderating effects between discrimination experiences and communication with parents and also between discrimination experiences and communication with parents and suicidal ideation.
 Conclusions School life had moderated mediating effects as the positive school life of adolescents alleviated the mediating effects of discrimination experiences increasing suicidal ideation via communication with parents. Based on the findings, the study proposes to refrain from hierarchical and one-sided communication at home and school and reinforce whole person education based on connections between school and home so that adolescents can ultimately suffer less damage from discrimination experiences.