사회복지전공 대학생들의 내부고발에 대한 긍정적 인식 및 부정적 인식이 사회복지조직의 내부고발자에 대한 평가에 미치는 영향 - 컨닝 고발자에 대한 평가의 매개효과와 통제능력의 조절효과를 중심으로 -

The research is based on a survey conducted with 954 university students majoring in social welfare. The study aims at verifying the effects of the students' supportive or critical perceptions toward whistle-blowing on their evaluations for whistle-blowers with the mediation effect of the evaluation regarding blowing the whistle on exam cheating and the moderation effect of ability to control. The notable findings are as follows: First, the level of supportive perceptions toward whistle-blowing is higher than that of critical perceptions. The whistle-blowers in social welfare organization is a bit more positively evaluated than the whistle-blowers about exam cheating among the respondent. Second, students with relatively high ability of control show generally higher score than students with low ability of control in the scale of main variables above. Lastly, among people with low ability to conrol, all the paths of direct and indirect effects on the evaluations for whistle-blowers are significant, however, the direct effect of critical perceptions toward whistle-blowing and the mediation effect of the evaluation regarding blowing the whistle on exam cheating on their evaluations for whistle-blowers within the social welfare organization are not significant among people with high ability of control, Therefore, the moderation effect is proved acording to the level of ability to control. Some practical implications are discussed based on the study's findings.