Influential Factors for Happiness of Adolescents Who Use Community Child Centers

Abstract

Purpose:The purpose of this study is to determine factors affecting happiness of adolescents who attended community child centers. Methods: We surveyed 154 adolescents attending a community child center in P City with a structured self-report questionnaire from October 3 to October 15, 2016. Data was analyzed by SPSS 18.0 descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffé test, Pearson's correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression. Results: The mean scores of family strength, friend support, teacher support, and happiness were 3.8±0.84, 3.8±0.98, 3.7±0.84 and 3.7±0.63. There were significant differences in happiness according to the subjects' number of close friends and duration of their stay at the community child center. There were a significant positive correlations among family strength, friend support, teacher support, and happiness. The most significant factors affecting happiness included friend support (β=.40) and peaceable family strength (β=.35). These variables explained 44% of the total variance in happiness. Conclusion: It is desirable to prepare and support measures to increase friends' support and family strength in order to improve happiness of adolescents attending community child centers. The findings suggest that it is necessary to develop nursing intervention programs to promote friend support and family strength.

Perfectionism among talented students and its relationship to their Self-Esteem

“…Perfection can be a blessing or a curse at the same time. Ideal work is often desirable because it leads to positive evaluations of the results; however, ideal work cannot always be achieved, which leads to a feeling of ridicule and it may be developed into clinical symptoms such as eating disorder, obsessivecompulsive disorder, mental and physical syndromes, and anxiety disorders (Park, Kim, Jo, Lee & Woo, 2017). The perfectionist character is described as a personality that seeks to reach a goal free from errors within high standards, or a personality characterized by the struggle to achieve perfection (incapacity idealism) and accompanied by exaggerated criticism of the self and fears of the valuations of others, or that it contains a bleak side that tends to be hostile to society, narcissism and excessive criticism of self and others.…”