Relations Between Adjustment to School and Help-Seeking Styles and Social Support : University Students’ Friendships

NAGAI AKIYUKI

doi:10.5926/jjep.64.199

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大学生の友人関係における援助要請およびソーシャル・サポートと学校適応の関連
ダイガクセイノユウジンカンケイニオケルエンジョヨウセイオヨビソーシャル・サポートトガッコウテキオウノカンレン

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The present study aimed to clarify relations between university undergraduates’ adjustment to school and their tendency of help-seeking styles and social support. The participants, 270 undergraduate students, completed an 85-item questionnaire regarding adolescents’ subjective adjustment to school, friendship, help-seeking styles, and social support. Cluster analysis of the results indicated that the students’ friendships could be categorized into 4 patterns: (a) adolescents who avoided relations with friends, (b) adolescents who were reserved about contacts with friends, (c) adolescents who were positive about relations with friends, and (d) adolescents who valued relations with friends. Results of a structural equation modeling analysis suggested that different friendship patterns produced different results regarding relations between school adjustment and the tendency to use different help-seeking styles and social support. For those adolescents who avoided relations with friends, higher social support made school adjustment lower, and a higher self-directed help-seeking style made school adjustment higher. Moreover, for those adolescents who were reserved about contact with friends, higher social support made school adjustment higher.

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The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology

The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology 64 (2), 199-211, 2016

The Japanese Association of Educational Psychology

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