Master`s Thesis
The Mediating Effects of Self-Resilience in the
Relationship between Adolescents'' Peer
Attachment and SNS Addiction
Proneness

Kim, Young-suk

Major in Counseling Psychology
Graduate School of Education
Kyungsung University
Advisor : Cheon, Seong-Moon

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to confirm the mediating effects of the self-resilience in the relationship between the adolescents'' peer attachment and the SNS addiction proneness.
The research conducted the survey on the adolescents'' peer attachment, the SNS addiction proneness, and the self-resilience scale by 470 students of middle school in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam.
To verify the hypotheses of this research, SPSS 21.0 program was used for descriptive statistics and correlation analysis. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the mediating effeects of variables, and indirect effects were
examined by bootstrapping.
The findings of this study were as follows.
First, the adolescents'' peer attachment was correlated negatively with the SNS addiction proneness. but, positively with the self-resilience in the correlating among them.
Second, the results of the regression analysis of the adolescents'' peer attachment, the SNS addiction proneness and the self-resilience showed a statistically significant effect.
Third, the adolescents'' peer attachment and the SNS addiction proneness were mediated completely by the self-resilience.
The conclusion deduced from the results of this study was as follows.
The adolescents'' peer attachment influences the SNS addiction proneness indirectly rather than directly, by mediating the self-resilience.
In the case of the adolescents with low peer attachment and high SNS addiction proneness, counseling interventions and educational programs are implemented to establish positive peer relationships and to improve self-resilience.
Finally, Based on the results, the limitations and implications of this study were discussed, and the future research directions were suggested.

Key words: adolescents'' peer attachment, SNS addiction proneness, self-resilience