Study on Bullying, Social Support and Parent-adolescent Communication for Elementary School Students

Cho, Kyung-Soon; Park, Sung-won

The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education 2003;9(1):126-135.
Published online December 31, 2003.

Cho, Kyung-Soon;Park, Sung-won;

¹Department of Nursing, Hyechon College
²Department of Nursing, Chongju National College of Science & Technology

초등학생의 따돌림 현상과 사회적지지, 부모-자녀간 의사소통과의 관계

조경순, 박성원

¹혜천대학 간호학과
²청주과학대 간호학과

Abstract

Purpose
The purposes of this study are as follows: Identifying the types of bullying; describing the relationship among social support, parent-adolescent communication and bullying types; identifying factors influencing the bullying. Method: 374 subjects were 5-6th grade students of two elementary schools in Daejeon. We collected the data from June 10 to October 29, 2002. The data were analyzed by using the frequency, ANOVA, pearson's correlation and stepwise multiple regression in the SPSS. Result: The 7 % of the subjects were found as bullies and another 23.8 % as victims, while 25.9 % were found as bully-victim group. The number of the victims in peer-support got less than in the normal or bully group. In the correlation analysis, the score of bullies, victims and bully-victim group were reversely-correlated with the social support. The score of victims was reversely-correlated with the mother-adolescent communication. In regression analysis, the social support influenced significant effects on both the bullies and victims. Conclusion: Findings indicated that the health professionals need to identify social support and parent-adolescent communication according to bullying types. Therefore, adequate approaches for the three independent groups of bullying are necessary.

Key Words: Social support, Parent-Adolescent communication, Bullying