The Effect of Social Support and Self-Efficacy of Elementary School Students on Their School Life Adjustment: Mediation Effect of Grit
AUTHOR : 박영아,최지영
INFORMATION : page. 67~83 / 2023 Vol.30 No.3
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship among social support, self-efficacy and school life adjustment, and to verify the mediating effect of grit in ele-mentary school students. For this purpose, online surveys were conducted on 173 male and 173 female students in the 5th and 6th grades of elementary school in D city, and the collected data were analyzed using SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 22.0. The analysis methods were descriptive statistics, a correlation analysis, a confirmatory factor anaysis, the structural equation modeling(SEM) and bootstrapping. The results of the study are as follows. First, it was found that both social support and self-efficacy had a positive effect on grit. Second, social support, self-efficacy, and grit directly affected school life adjustment. Third, Grit mediated between social support and school life adjustment. Fourth, Grit mediated be-tween self-efficacy and school life adjustment. These results suggest that grit is an im-portant variable that directly or indirectly affects elementary school students' adjustment to school life, and social support and self-efficacy are the basic variables for school life adjustment. In particular, the study provides basic data to develop an effective program to improve students’ adaptability to school life by understanding the characteristic of grit.