The Effect of Personality Factors and Self-evaluation on the Sense of Happiness of Korean College Students: Hierarchical Regression Analysis

Jun, Soo-Koung; Shin, Inyoung

doi:10.22143/hss21.12.6.138

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“…Among the sub-factors of the five personality factors, sincerity, openness, extraversion, and affinity were particularly closely correlated with happiness, and neuroticism was found to have a negative correlation [25]. Jun & Shin [5] investigated the influence of five personality factors (initiative, depression, consideration, accuracy, and judgment), which showed that depression is the most influencing factor that impacts negatively on the college students' happiness, and initiative and consideration positively affect the happiness of college students. They used data from 5283 university students among 8485 data from the third year of the Korean Education & Employment Panel (KEEP) II [26] provided by the Korea Vocational Training Institute.…”

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“…However, young people using expressions, such as "Hell Chosun, 88 Dollar Generation, N-Give-up Generation, and Spoon Social Rank Theory" show a sense of despair rather than happiness. It is said to be the most prosperous economic environment since King Dangun (the legendary founder of Korea), but the reality that young people feel is not so [5].…”

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As of 2020, in Korea, as 72.5% of high-school graduates go on to college and college period has an impact on the social development of Korean youth, it is very important to increase the sense of happiness of college students. However, there are new terminologies to express the situation in which how young people in Korea feel the difficulties in their lives, such as “Hell Chosun, 88-Dollar-Generation, N-Give-up-Generation, and Spoon-Social-Rank.” This chapter summarizes the factors related to the happiness of college students in South Korea, such as depression, interpersonal relationships, and self-efficacy, to suggest educational programs to promote the happiness of young people in Korea.

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confidence: 99%