earticle

영어

The major purpose of this study was to explore the mediating effects of ego-resiliency between social support and stress coping strategies in adolescence. The subjects were 328 middle school students located in Seoul. They completed questionnaires on social supports, ego-resilience scale by Block and Kremen(1996), and stress coping strategies based on Lazarus and Folkman(1984). The major findings were as follows: First, perceived social support as well as ego-resilience had significant effects on stress coping strategies. In particular, the mediating role of ego-resilience was found in the relationship between social support and stress coping strategies, which confirms that social support has an indirect effect on stress coping strategies through ego-resilience, rather than direct effect.