아동의 그릿(Grit)이 학교적응에 미치는 영향에서 행복감과 집행기능곤란의 이중매개효과

Abstract

This study was to investigate the dual mediating effects of happiness and executive functiondifficulty on the relationship between children's grit and school adjustment. The subjects of thisstudy were 1,397 children in 6th grade of elementary school. The data were drawn from the13th(T5) wave data(2020) of the Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC). Data processing wasperformed using the IBM SPSS 26 program and Hayes (2013) Macro Process (Model 6) for thecorrelation and dual mediating effect among relevant variables. The results of study are asfollows. First, children's grit had a direct effect on school adaptation in a path model includingchildren's happiness and executive function difficulties. Second, happiness mediated the effectof children's grit on school adaptation. Third, executive function difficulties mediated the effectof children's grit on school adaptation. Fourth, the effect of children's grit on school adaptationwas double mediated in the order of happiness and executive function difficulties. Inconclusion, children's grit could positively influence children's school adjustment by sequentiallyaffecting the emotional factor of happiness and the cognitive behavioral control factor ofexecutive functioning difficulties. Limitations of the study and suggestions were discussed.