고려대학교

초록/요약

This study examined the effects of adolescents' experiences of domestic violence on their mental health and mediating effects of adolescents' self-concept. In this study the domestic violence experiences was divided into two. One was witnessing experience of violence between their parents and another was experience of child abuse from their parents. The fifth panel (2007) for middle school of the National Youth Policy Institute was used for this study. Results only on physical violence reported a percentage of 49.3% for those who witnessed physical violence between parents at least once, and 38.5% even experienced serious beating from their parents. The following are main analysis results. First, both types of domestic violence gave a significant influence on the mental health of adolescents. Second, both domestic violence types negatively affected the self-concept of adolescents. Third, the adolescents' self-concept had a significant influence on their mental health. Fourth, verification results of mediating effects of self-concept confirmed a partial mediating effect of self-concept in both domestic violence types. The two types of domestic violence directly affected the adolescents' mental health, but also gave indirect influence mediated by their self-concept. This study presents practical suggestions for intervening in domestic violence based on the results.