Influence of home environment risk elements and ego resiliency on the early youth’s problem behavior

Soon Ok LEE

Department of Epidemiology and Health promotion
Graduate school of Public Health
Kyungpook National University
Daegu, Korea
(Supervised by Professor Choi, Yeon-Hee)


(Abstract)

This study is done to collect basic data for prevention of early adolescents’ problem behaviors by verifying the mediating effect of ego resiliency between home environment risk elements and early adolescents’ problem behaviors.
Five elementary schools were random-sampled, and a survey was conducted targeting 500 students in the 5th and 6th year, out from which 450 students’ questionnaires faithfully completed and returned with guardians’ written consent were selected for final analysis data.
Measuring tools used in this study are criteria of home environment risk elements, of ego resiliency, and of early adolescents’ problem behaviors, and SPSS/Win 19.0, a statistical program, was used to analyze the collected data, performing independent sample T, one-way layout variance analysis, correlation analysis, course model analysis, and Sobel Test Conclusions based on the results of this study are as follow:
Conclusion 1 : Home environment risk elements have direct influence on early adolescents’ problem behaviors.
Conclusion 2 : Home environment risk elements have indirect influence on early adolescents’ problem behaviors by mediating ego-resiliency.
That is, it is confirmed that home environment risk elements have direct influence on early adolescents’ problem behaviors and mediating influence on early adolescents’ problem behaviors by mediating ego-resiliency.
Accordingly, this study can be used as useful basic data to preclusively intervene early adolescents such as counselling and developing related programs on their positive growth and development, and on reducing their problem behaviors, as well as to therapeutically intervene those who show maladjustment. This study has significance in that it has provided empirical data revealing factors that influence the early youth’s problem behaviors.