2011, Vol.24, No.2

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.67

pISSN : 1229-0718 / eISSN : 2671-6542
https://journal.kci.go.kr/baldal

With the proportion of social, romantic and family loneliness, this study examined if there’s differences in three types of loneliness according to sex and age, what relationship was there between loneliness and persoanlity variables, that is exteroversion, neurotocism and self-esteem. As results, old adults had the highest proportion in romantic loneliness and the lowest proportion in family loneliness and the experience of loneliness was increased with age. Women experienced more romantic loneliness than men and the men of 76-80 age group experienced more family loneliness than women. Old adults of 76-80 age group experienced more social, romantic and family loneliness than the other two age groups. Except men of 71-75 age group, social and family lonelines negatively correlated with exteraversion and self-exteem and positively with neuroticism. Although similar correlation pattern was found in romantic loneliness, some variation appeared according to age group. It was confirmed three personality variables influenced three types of loneliness.

The purpose of this study was to investigative the effects of friendship jealousy on intent attribution, peer conformity, and relational aggression. A sample of 547 students from 3 girls’ middle schools in Ulsan was participated in the survey. For this study, a relation friendship jealousy scale, a intent attribution scale, a peer conformity scale, and a peer conflict scale were conducted. For statistical analyses, correlation analysis and Structural Equation Modeling were employed. The results of this study were as following: First, friendship jealousy had a positive correlation with intent attribution, peer conformity, overt aggression, relational aggression, and total in aggression. And intent attribution had a positive correlation with peer conformity, overt aggression, relational aggression, and total in aggression. Peer conformity had a positive correlation with overt aggression, relational aggression and total in aggression. Secondly, intent attribution as well as peer conformity mediated the relationship between friendship jealousy and relational aggression. Additionally, friendship jealousy exerts a direct effect on relational aggression. The implications of this study are discussed.

The purpose of this study was to compare the wisdom of old people and college students and to investigate the relations of wisdom, openness to experience, and self-transcendence. Seventy-four college students and fifty-six old people were measured their level of wisdom on Korean Wisdom Scale(Kim, 2008). It was found that old people got higher scores than college students on four areas of the Korean Wisdom Scale, especially in ‘self-control and balance’ factor. Also old people showed higher scores in self-transcendence than college students. Comparing the judgments on four hypothetical life dilemma situations, old people judged the protagonists less responsible for the dilemma than college students. Old people gave more weights on concerns for other people as best solutions whereas college students more on protagonist-oriented solutions. Wisdom was related positively both to self-transcendence and to openness to experience in old people, but wisdom was related positively only to self-transcendence in college students. Limitations of this study, its implications and suggestions for further research were discussed.