The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effects of adolescents'' family-resilience and parental monitoring between after-school self-care and problem behavior.
In this study, subjects were 439 middle school students. After-school Self-Care was assessed by Short Form of the panel data from the Korean Child-Youth Panel Survey 2013(KCYPS 2013). After-School Self Care was measured by Lee Jun-Ho (2012)’s categorical approach. Family-Resilience was assessed by Park Hea-Rhan (2014)’s inventory and Parental Monitoring was assessed by Heo Myo-Yeon (2000)’s parenting attitude inventory. Also Youth Self-Reports; K-YSR was used for this study as a scale for measuring youth''s problem behavior, which was developed by Achenbach(1991) and translated and generalized by Oh, Lee, Hong, and Ha(1998) for Korean adolescence.
Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Factor Analysis, Cronbach’s α, Multivariate Analysis Variance(MANOVA), and two-way analysis of variance(two-way ANOVA) with SPSS 23.0
The results of this study were as follows.
First, there were differences in adolescents'' problem behavior by their self-care types. Problem behavior of adult care group was lower than those of temporary self-care group and continuous self-care group.
Second, there were moderating effects of adolescents'' family-resilience in the relationships between self-care types and the degree of problem behavior. Unusually in case of poor family-resilience temporary self-care group did more problem behaviors than continuous self-care group.
Third, parental monitoring did not have any moderating effect on relationship between adolescents'' after-school self-care and problem behavior.
In conclusion, this study revealed that adolescents'' family-resilience has moderating effects on the relationships between after-school self-care and problem behavior. The findings of this study will contribute to design family-resilience programs to prevent adolescents'' problem behavior.