Structural Relationship Among Children’s Pragmatic Language, Self-Esteem, Externalizing Problem Behavior and School Adaptation: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study (아동의 화용언어능력과 자아존중감, 외현화 문제행동 및 학교적응 간의 구조적 관계: 단기종단연구)

LEEHWAJIN (이화진); Lim, Ji-Young (임지영)

Structural Relationship Among Children’s Pragmatic Language, Self-Esteem, Externalizing Problem Behavior and School Adaptation: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2022, 35(2), pp.93-113
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science
Received : April 15, 2022
Accepted : May 30, 2022
Published : June 15, 2022

LEEHWAJIN ¹, Lim, Ji-Young ¹

¹경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

This short-term longitudinal study examined the structural relationship between children’s pragmatic language, self-esteem, externalizing problem behavior, and school adaptation. Data on 1,148 children and their mothers from 11th and 12th Panel Study on Korean Children were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 23.0 with the application of Pearson’s correlation, structural equation modelling, bootstrapping and the AMOS user-defined estimand function. The main results were as follows. Firstly, children’s pragmatic language was positively correlated with self-esteem and school adaptation but negatively correlated with externalizing problem behavior. Secondly, children’s pragmatic language was found to exert an influence upon self-esteem, externalizing problem behavior, and school adjustment. Thirdly, the relationship between children’s pragmatic language and school adjustment was mediated by their self-esteem and externalizing problem behavior. Results are discussed in terms of the protective factor and risk factors for children’s school adjustment.

KEYWORDS

pragmatic language, self-esteem, externalizing problem behavior, school adaptation

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