청소년 한부모의 스트레스가 학업지속에 미치는 영향에서 학업, 주거 및 생활지원 정책의 조절효과

The Moderating Effect of Study, Housing and Living Support Policy on the Impact of Adolescent Single-parents' Stress on the Sustainability of Education

This study verifies whether academic support and housing and living support policies are controlling effects in the effects of stress levels on academic life of adolescent single-parent. The data is a ‘2012 survey of youth pregnancy, childbirth and child rearing’ conducted by the Korea Institute for Youth Policy. The subjects included those who are pregnant with their children or who are planning to raise their children while they are pregnant, and those who are raising their children after childbirth, with 248 single parents raising their children under the age of 18. The research method was conducted with a technical statistical analysis, T-test and logistic analysis. The main results are as follows. First, 33.5 percent were raised by single-parent families and grandparents, 25.5 percent of those with less than middle school degrees and 73.4 percent of those who stopped studying. They were feeling a lot of stress and economic stress about the future, and the stress level of the academic discontinuities was high in all the lower areas. Second, stress levels have been shown to reduce academic sustainability to a significant level. It has been verified that the tuition support for adolescent single-parent qualification exams for general equivalency diploma is a direct factor that increases the sustainability of their studies by 3.8 times, while the effectiveness of support in cases of high domestic work stress increases, thus increasing the sustainability of their studies. Third, support for basic living expenses was also increasing the sustainability of academic studies by increasing influence in cases where primary family stress is high and child care stress is high. However, in cases of high economic stress, the influence was decreasing, raising the possibility of a suspension of studies. This has confirmed that adolescent single-parent may be partially supplemented by policy support if they lack the support they can expect from their families.