The relationship among social support, self-efficacy and life-satisfaction: Longitudinal analysis.

초록

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship among self-social support, self-efficacy, and life-satisfaction between urban and rural adolescents living in South Korea (Park et al. 1999). More specifically, the aim of this research is to examine the changing pattern of self-efficacy from primary to junior high school by conducting a longitudinal analysis. A total of 486 sixth-grade students (male=237; female=249) participated in the initial stage in 1997. During the second year, a total of 445 seventh-grade students (e.g., male=209; female=233) participated in 1999. The results indicate that as adolescents enter into junior high school, social support received and self-efficacy decrease. Moreover, social support and self-efficacy are found to be the main predictors of life satisfaction. The causal model for primary school students shows that teacher’s social support has direct effect on life-satisfaction. Parental and friend’s social support increases self-efficacy, which in turn increases life-satisfaction. When these students enter junior high school, the influence of teacher’s support no longer increases life-satisfaction. Both parental and friend’s social support increases self-efficacy, which in turn increases life-satisfaction. Also, parental social support has direct effect on life-satisfaction.