The Effect of Psychological Rearing Environment on Resilience of Institutionalized Children: Mediating Effects of Attachment with Institution’s Peers and Attachment with School’s Peers
AUTHOR : 김현진,김선희
INFORMATION : page. 57~73 / 2017 Vol.24 No.3
ABSTRACT
This study was aimed to examine the effect of psychological rearing environment of institution on
resilience of institutionalized children. It also investigated the mediating effects of attachment with
institution’s peers and attachment with schools’s peers on the relationship between the psychological rearing
environment of institution and resilience of institutionalized children. The participants of this study were
215 elementary school students in 4th, 5th, and 6th grades residing in care institutions for children who
are separated from parents due to family dissolution in Seoul or Busan. Frequency analysis, reliability test,
Pearson’s correlation analysis, and SEM analysis were carried out using SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 23.0
program. The results were as follows. First, psychological rearing environment of institution, attachment
with institution’s peers, attachment with schools’s peers, and resilience of institutionalized children all
showed significant relationship. Second, there were partial mediating effect of attachment with institution’s
peers on relationship between psychological rearing environment of institution and resilience of
institutionalized children. Third, there were no mediating effect of attachment with schools’s peers on
relationship between psychological rearing environment of institution and resilience of institutionalized
children. Based on these results, this study suggests the importance of respect, intimacy, and emotional
support among institutional members in institutional systems to improve the resilience of institutionalized
children.