대학생의 성격강점에 따른 스트레스 대처와 정서조절 양식이 대학생활 적응에 미치는 영향

• Published in: Seuteureseu yeon-gu (Online) Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 109 - 118
• Main Authors: 신정원(JeongWon Shin), 장효정(HyoJoung Jang), 현명호(MyoungHo Hyun)
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 대한스트레스학회 01.09.2015
• Subjects: 가정의학; Prudence; 스트레스 대처; Stress-coping strategies; Emotion-regulation; 신중성; 자기통제; 성격강점; Character strengths; 정서조절; Self-regulation
• ISSN: 1225-665X; 2234-1668

The purposes of this study was to investigate how individuals’ stress-coping strategies and emotion-regulation abilities mediate the relationship between character strengths and adjustment to college life. The character strength of interest was the virtue of temperance, which in this study was operationalized to include two constructs: self-regulation and prudence. A sample of 642 college students completed the Character Strength Test, Student Adjustment to College Questionnaire, Ways of Coping Checklist, and Emotion Regulation Checklist. We conducted multiple regression analyses on measures of self-regulation and prudence as independent variables, stress-coping strategies and emotional regulation as the mediation variables, and adjustment to college life as the dependent variable, examining whether stepwise regression models accounted for more variance than did linear ones. Our results suggest that emotional regulation and stress-coping strategies partially mediate the relationship between self-regulation and adjustment to college life. They also partially mediate the relationship between prudence and adjustment to college life. Despite these findings, our study is not without limitations. We discuss these in detail and provide directions for future research. (Korean J Str Res 2015;23:109∼118) KCI Citation Count: 21