2015, Vol.28, No.1

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

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

Meta-analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between self-regulation and psychosocial adjustment (i.e., externalizing behavior, internalizing behavior, addiction, and social competence) in preschool and elementary school children using 62 studies published in Korean journals. Results revealed significant associations between children’s self-regulation and all indicators of psychosocial outcomes. Additionally, subtypes of self-regulation, child’s sex and age, and informants of rating emerged as moderators of the relationship between self-regulation and psychosocial adjustment in exploratory analyses. This study represents an initial attempt to integrate previous studies on children’s self-regulation and psychosocial outcomes. Based on these findings, specifically targeting self-regulatory abilities were discussed as a way of promoting children’s adjustment across multiple domains.

This study investigated the relationships among perceived opportunity, coping strategies, regret-related emotions, and subjective well-being in 158 middle-aged women living in Busan, South Korea. Middle-aged women regret most frequently the areas of marriage, education, and self-development. The more regret-related emotions they felt, the less subjective well-being they had. Rumination as a coping strategy for regret was related to higher regret-related emotion and lower subjective well-being, while the use of engagement of new goals as a coping strategy was related to higher subjective well-being. The lower the perceived opportunity of modification experiences involving regret, the higher the regret-related emotions and the lower the happiness. Out of the two contrasting principles regarding regret-future opportunity principle and lost opportunity principle-this supported the lost opportunity principle. Finally, the path analysis result showed that perceived opportunity and rumination had effects on subjective well-being both directly and indirectly. Engagement of a new goal had a direct effect on subjective well-being.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationships among college students's adaptation to college, adult attachment, self-esteem, and interpersonal relationships. Participants were 372 college students randomly selected from four colleges. The collected data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Amos 19.0. The results showed that 1) adult attachment affected self-esteem and interpersonal relationships; 2) self-esteem and interpersonal relationships affected adaptation to college; and 3) adult attachment had an indirect effect on adaptation to college, which was mediated by self-esteem and interpersonal relationships.