| The Relationship of Personality, Sensation Seeking and Adjustment to School in the Adolescents |
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Kyung-Hee Kim1, Hye-Jin Kwon2, Mi-Hye Choi1 |
1Associate Professor, Department of Nursing. College of Medicine, Chung-ang University
2Professor, Department of Nursing. College of Medicine, Chung-ang University |
Correspondence:
Hye-Jin Kwon, Tel: +82-2-820-5678, Fax: +82-2-824-7961,
Email: kwonhj@cau.ac.kr
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Received: 16 November 2004 • Accepted: 19 December 2004 |
| Abstract |
Purpose
This study was designed to identify the relationship between adolescents’ personality, sensation seeking and adjustment to school, the major factors causing their maladjusted behavior.
Methods
The subjects were 956 adolescents in high school. Data was collected, using questionnaire survey based on convenience sampling. The instruments used in this study are the Personality Scale developed by Kim and Kim(1999), the Sensation-Seeking Scale(SSS) developed by Zuckerman( 1978), the questionnaire developed by Lee(1996). The data thus collected was analyzed by the SPSS 10.0 program.
Results
The relationship between personality and sensation seeking had positive correlation except sociality and BS in each sub-area. Adjustment to school was positively correlated to sociality, depressive trend, level of self-esteem, but negatively correlated to antisocial personality tendency in the sub-area of personality. Adjustment to school was positively correlated to TAS and ES, but negatively correlated to Dis in the sub-area of sensation seeking.
Conclusion
The findings suggest that personality and sensation seeking were associated with adjustment to school, providing useful for developing an intervention program focused on adolescents subject to psycho-social problems. |
| Key Words:
Adolescent; Personality; Sensation; School |
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