An Investigation of Emerging Adults’ Social Coping: Help-seeking from Friends (성인 진입기 대학생의 사회적 대처 방식 탐색: 친구에게 도움을 구하는 행동을 중심으로)

Chaerim Park (박채림); Huiyoung Shin (신희영)

An Investigation of Emerging Adults’ Social Coping: Help-seeking from Friends

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2022, 35(4), pp.49~70
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science
Received : June 16, 2022
Accepted : December 1, 2022
Published : December 15, 2022

Chaerim Park ¹, Huiyoung Shin ¹

¹전북대학교

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ABSTRACT

The goal of the current study was to investigate emerging adults’ help-seeking from friends as one of the adaptive coping strategies in stressful social situations. Participants included 300 emerging adults who were currently enrolled in college (Mage = 23.28; 48.3% male). They self-reported their perceived goal structures, help-seeking from friends, and levels of friendship quality, anxious solitude, and social self-efficacy. A confirmatory factor analysis supported the two-factor structure of help-seeking from friends: Mastery and Avoidance. Structural equation modeling results indicated that individuals’ perceived goal structures were linked to different types of help-seeking from friends, and different types of help-seeking were associated with levels of friendship quality and anxious solitude. Further, mastery help-seeking from friends mediated the associations between perceived mastery goal structures and friendship quality. The results underscore that help-seeking from friends can be an adaptive coping strategy in stressful social situations and individuals’ perceptions of goal-related messages can have important implications for emerging adults’ help-seeking from friends.

KEYWORDS

Emerging Adulthood, Help-seeking from Friends, Perceived Goal Structures, Friendship Quality, Anxious Solitude

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