초등학교 6학년의 사회경제적 지위 인식과 미래에 대한 인식과의 관계에서 전반적인 행복감과 삶의 만족도의 직렬다중매개효과

Abstract

Objectives The aim of this paper is to investigate the serial multiple mediation of overall happiness and life satisfaction in the relationship between subjective socioeconomic status and perception of the future in 6th grade elementary school students.
 Methods This study used data from 13th (2020) Panel Study on Korean Children(PSKC) and total of 1,357 students who responded to 13th PSKC are examined by measures of subjective socioeconomic statue, future expectation, overall happiness, and life satisfaction. Path analysis is conducted to test the serial multiple meditation of overall happiness and life satisfaction.
 Results Firstly, there are positive correlations among subjective socioeconomic status, future expectation, overall happiness, and life satisfaction. Second, overall happiness and life satisfaction may serially mediate the association between subjective socioeconomic status and future expectation. Last but not least, overall happiness have the greatest meditation impact between subjective socioeconomic status and future expectation while testing differences among effects of meditation.
 Conclusions A student’s subjective socioeconomic status was positively associated with overall happiness, then with life satisfaction, which in turn positively contributed to future expectation. Especially, identification of and interventions for overall happiness may support a 6th grade student who think his/her socioeconomic status low to have high future expectation.