부정적 인생사건이 비행시작 및 재비행에 미치는 영향: 미시적 요인의 매개효과를 중심으로

The purpose of this study is to inspect the effects of ‘negative life-events’ on delinquency and re-delinquency and verify the role of diverse mediating factors which play some roles throughout the process. For this purpose, several major factors are derived from the diverse ‘negative life-events’ and these were evaluated to test the process of mediation upon the dependent variables of delinquency and re-delinquency. Factors such as ‘parents relation’, ‘self-control’, ‘self- esteem’, and ‘delinquency friends’ were adopted to test the mediating effects. For the statistical data analysis, we utilized “KYPS(Korean Youth Panel Survey)” data between 2003-2006, which has the total number of 3,449 adolescent subjects. To test the hypotheses, we used the statsitical method of logistic regression analysis with SPSS and Structural Equation Modeling analysis with AMOS. Major findings can be summarized by two points. First, there is no direct effects of ‘negative life-events’ upon the onset of delinquency, while ‘unprofitable event’, ‘punishment’, and ‘voluntrary event of parents’ had direct effects on re-delinquency. Second, the effects of ‘negative life-events’ are largely mediated by ‘self-control’, ‘delinquency friends’, and ‘parental affection’ so that we could not find any direct effects of ‘negative life-events’ upon delinquency. However, in case of re-delinquency, the effects of ‘negative life-events’ are partly mediated by ‘self-control’, ‘self-esteem’, ‘delinquency friends’, and ‘supervision of parents’ so that we could find not only direct effects but also indirect effects of upon re-delinquency.