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The Mediating Effect of Emotional Behavioral Problems on the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Middle School Students’ Life Satisfaction: A Multi-group Analysis According to Parental Composition and Parents’ Life Satisfaction

  • The Korean Journal of School Psychology
  • Abbr : KJSP
  • 2020, 17(1), pp.39-63
  • DOI : 10.16983/kjsp.2020.17.1.39
  • Publisher : The Korean Journal of School Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science > School / Educational Psychology
  • Received : February 18, 2020
  • Accepted : April 3, 2020
  • Published : April 30, 2020

Gyuyoung Ha 1 Minyoung Lee 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study examined the relationship between family socioeconomic status, emotional behavioral problems, parental composition, and parents’ life satisfaction, all of which are factors that affect the life satisfaction of Korean middle school students. To this end, multi-group analysis was conducted on KCYPS panel data. The results showed four major patterns. First, family socioeconomic status has a significant direct effect on the students’ life satisfaction only when the student has two parents and when the student’s parents have high life satisfaction. Second, family socioeconomic status only significantly influenced students’ emotional behavioral problems when parents had low life satisfaction, regardless of parental composition. Third, the mediating effect of emotional behavioral problems (aggression) in the relationship between family socioeconomic status and student life satisfaction was only significant when the student had two-parents and when the student’s parents’ had low life satisfaction. Fourth, depression was the variable most stronly correlated with student life satisfaction. This paper discusses the limitations of this study and the impliations of its results about how to improve students’ life satisfaction.

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