2017, Vol.14, No.1

The Korean Journal of School Psychology 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.68

pISSN : 1738-463X / eISSN : 2734-0112
https://journal.kci.go.kr/schooljr

The purpose of this study was to examine the structural relationship among social goals, academic achievement goal orientations, basic psychology needs, quality of peer relationship, and academic engagement of adolescents. The participants were 592 seventh grade students in 3 middle schools. Main results were as follows. First, social approval goal, affiliation goal, and status goal had positive effects on performance-approach goals, whereas social concern goal had negative effect on performance-approach goals. Social concern goal and status goal had positive effects on mastery-approach goals, whereas social affiliation goal had negative effects on mastery-approach goals. Second, social concern goal and status goal had positive effects on basic psychological needs, whereas social approval goal had negative effect on basic psychological needs. Third, social affiliation goal and concern goal had positive direct effects on quality of peer relationship. Basic psychological needs mediated the associations of social approval, concern, and status goals with quality of peer relationship. Mastery-approach goals and basic psychological needs had dual-mediation effects on the relationship between social concern, status goal and quality of peer relationship. Fourth, both mastery-approach goals and basic psychological needs had mediation effects on the relationship between social concern, status goal and academic engagement. Mastery-approach goals and basic psychological needs had dual-mediation effects on the relationship between social concern, status goal and quality of peer relationship. The importance of social goals as well as academic achievement goals were highlighted for the more comprehensive understanding of peer relationship and academic engagement of adolescents.

The present study examined the effects of friendship jealousy on relational aggression of early adolescents and addressed the question as to whether locus of control and self-efficacy had any moderating effect upon the relationship between friendship jealousy and relational aggression. The participants of this study consisted 570 students(6th grade, 276 boys & 294 girls) from elementary schools located in Seoul and Gyeounggi province. It was measured with Friendship Jealousy Questionnaire(Parker & Low, 1999), Locus of Control Scales (Levenson, 1981), Self-Efficacy Scales(Cha, J. E., Kim, A. Y., 1996). The Peer Conflict Scale(Marsee, Komonis, & Frick, 2004) was used to measure the level of relational aggression. Statistical analyses of data used for this study comprised the following methods; frequency, mean, standard deviation, and hierarchical regression. The results indicated that the level of friendship jealousy and external locus of control of elemantary school students increased the level of relational aggression whereas the level of self-efficacy decreased the level of relational aggression. In addition, external locus of control and self-efficacy moderated the effects of friendship jealousy on relational aggression whereas internal locus of control did not.

It is important that career counselling helps the client to overcome a negative psychology or emotion. But it is also worthwhile work that helping the client who has not psychological problem and lives in rapidly changing society to manage a career: life-span perspectives for oneself by developing their positive psychology strengths. The aim of this study was to provide the information abut the trends and to inquire into issues of career counselling or study in relations between positive psychological resource and career variable. A total 56 empirical articles in the Korean Journal of education, social science, psychology science fields were classified into 4 component elements of positive psychological capital (Luthans, Avolio, Avey & Norman, 2007) and 11 component elements of substantive areas of career and vocational counseling research devised(Fitzgerald & Rounds, 1989). Conclusively (1) analyzed trends as follows: yearly, objects, methodologies distribution, (2) analyzed results of relations between positive psychological resource and career variable, (3) discussed a way to application.