한국과 일본 중학생의 학교 스트레스 비교 분석

A Comparative Study of School Stress:Focusing on Junior High School Students in Korea and Japan

Recently, a wide variety of maladaptation, such as school refusal or mental disorder, has remarkably increased in junior high school students in Korea and Japan. The increase of stressful events which students experience in their school life is regarded as one of the causes of this phenomenon. The previous study which attempted to clarify the school stress process(Shimada et al., 1993, 1995, 1996) developed the school stressor, stress response, cognitive appraisal, coping, social support, social skill and self-efficacy scale for junior high school students to assess both the frequency and the averseness of events which students encounter in their daily school life. 734 Korean and 637 Japanese junior high school students completed the stress process scale. The main results were as follows: (a) Japanese students evaluated all the events of stressor at a higher level than Koreans did. (b) Korean students evaluated all the events at a higher level than Japanese did. (c) Japanese student evaluated all the eventsmore cognitive appraisal than Koreans did. (d) Korean students evaluated better coping abilities than Japanese did. (e) Korean students evaluated more social support except for the relationship of friends than Japanese did. (f) Korean students evaluated more social skills except for aggression than Japanese did. In summary, Korean students felt the events in junior high school were more stressful than Japanese did.