Children's Academic Stress and Aggression - Examining the Moderating Effect of Attachment to Parents
AUTHOR : 채진영
INFORMATION : page. 71~87 / 2012 Vol.19 No.1
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of children's attachment to parents in
terms of the relationship between academic stress and aggression. The subjects were 2,694 fourth-grade
children(consisting of 1,435 boys and 1,259 girls) who participated in a Korean Youth Panel
Survey(KYPS) in 2004. Data were analyzed through frequency, percentages, Cronbach’s reliability
coefficient, skewness, kurtosis, and Pearson's correlations using the SPSS 19.0. In addition, Ping(1996)'s
two-step approach was adopted in order to analyze the moderating effect through AMOS 7.0. The
principle findings are as follows. First, children's aggression revealed a significantly positive correlation with
academic stress, but a significantly negative correlation with attachment to parents. Second, the
proposed model, as revised, demonstrated the effectiveness of an analysis of the structural equation
model, and illustrated the fact that children's attachment to parents had a moderating effect on the
relationship between academic stress and aggression. These findings suggest that children's secure
attachment to their parents reduced the negative influence of academic stress on aggression. The
implications of this research for future studies were also discussed