다문화 청소년이 인식한 경제적 어려움이학업성취에 미치는 영향과 행복감의 매개효과 - 성별 차이를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the influence of economic hardship on academic achievement among multicultural adolescents. This study also investigated whether happiness mediated the influence of economic hardship on academic achievement and whether there were gender differences in the mediating effect of happiness. The data used in this study came from the 13th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey conducted in 2017, and the analytic sample of this study was composed of 956 multicultural adolescents living with at least one foreign-born parent. The main results from multiple linear regression analyses are as follow. First, economic hardship negatively influenced academic achievement among multicultural adolescents. Second, multicultural adolescents’ happiness partially mediated the influence of economic hardship on academic achievement. Third, a partial mediating effect of happiness was found for male adolescents, and a perfect mediating effect of happiness was found for female adolescents. Based on the findings, this study concluded with practice and policy implications for promoting academic performance among multicultural adolescents.