1Research Scholar, Department of Child and Adolescent Welfare, Hanseo University, 31962, Korea
2Professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Hanseo University, 31962, Korea
*Corresponding Author: Yeoun Kyoung Hwang Professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Hanseo University, 31962, Korea, Phone: +82-10-2070-7980, E-mail: 01020707980@hanmail.net
Online published on 27 February, 2018.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of self-esteem and the moderating effect of school violence victimization experience on the relationship between depression and subjective happiness in 467 middle school students.
For the analysis, SPSS WIn.21.0 and SPSS MACRO program were used. Reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, average comparison analysis, path analysis, bias correction bootstrap were performed.
First, depression has a negative correlation with subjective happiness and self-esteem, while it has a positive correlation with school violence victimization experience. Subjective happiness was positively correlated with self-esteem, but negatively correlated with depression and school violence victimization experience, respectively. Second, as a result of the SPSS macro PROCESS analysis, depression influenced negatively on the self-esteem, and school violence victimization experience had a negative effect on selfesteem. Third, as a result of the bootstrap analysis, the path from depression to self-esteem was moderated by the school violence victimization experience, and the moderated mediation effect of self-esteem and school violence victimization experience was verified in relation to depression and self-esteem.
This result suggests that the interaction of adolescent depression and school violence victimization experience will be used as a new model to improve subjective happiness through self-esteem.
Depression, School violence victimization experience, self-esteem, Subjective happiness, Moderation effect, Moderated mediation effect, SPSS macro PROCESS
