The School Life Satisfaction of Middle School Students according to Self-Directed Learning Capability and Emotion Regulation Strategy

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in the school life satisfaction of middle school students according to self-directed learning capability and emotion regulation strategy. The subject of this study were 499 middle school students in Daegu. In order to analyze the data, two way ANOVA were employed for analysis and Scheffe test for post-hoc analysis. The main finding of this study were as follows; First, there were significant differences in the school life satisfaction of middle school students according to self-directed learning capability and behavioral emotion regulation strategy. Second, there were significant differences in the school life satisfaction of middle school students by cognitive emotion regulation strategy. But there were no significant differences in the school life satisfaction according to self-directed learning capability and cognitive emotion regulation strategy. Third, there were significant differences in the school life satisfaction of middle school students according to negative․avoidant and emotion regulation strategy. However there were no significant differences in the school life satisfaction according to self-directed learning capability and negative․avoidant emotion regulation strategy.