A study on the relationship of Self-Leadership, spiritual Well-Being and college students’ adjustment in college freshmen

During college years, one is able to develop one's specialty and sociality to choose a career and set the direction of life. Therefore, successful adjustment is a significant development task. In order to examine the relationship between Self-leadership, Spiritual well-being and College students’ adjustment, the study conducted survey targeting 255 freshmen.

The data study used the following analysis method using SPSS18.0 statistic program. A t-test and ANOVA verification were conducted to examine the differences in Self-leadership, Spiritual well-being and College students’ adjustment according to the sociodemographic characteristics. And a correlation analysis was conducted to investigate the relationship between three values.

In order to examine the relationship between Self-leadership, Spiritual well-being and College students’ adjustment, the study conducted survey targeting freshmen from colleges located in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Chungcheong-do region. The study period was set from May 2nd to 12th, 2017 and an online survey was conducted subjecting students. As for the gender, 42.4% was male and 57.6% was female. As for the major, natural science, engineering and health were the highest (38.4%) and followed by humanities and social science (26.7%), education (25.5%) and others (9.4%). As the result of examining the relationship between Self-leadership, Spiritual well-being and College students’ adjustment, it was confirmed that all three variables are correlational.

Therefore the study demands a systematic support of college to pay their role to help students to step ahead as a healthy member of society and adjust to school life.