급우의 ADHD특성에 대한 청소년의 지각정도와 수용정도

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Degrees of Adolescents' Awareness and Acceptance of ADHD Characteristics in Classmates

By Yun-chae Lee Advisor: Seunghee Lee, Ph.D. Major in Special Educaion Graduate School of Education, Chosun University

The peer relation in the adolescent period plays a major role in adjusting to the school life and the sociability development. However, students with ADHD have a hard time forming friendly peer relations because of various ADHD characteristics. Hence, the purpose of this research is to look into how much awareness other students in the class have toward some students’ ADHD characteristics and how much they are willing to accept from students’ ADHD characteristics The research problem for this study is as follows. Fist, how much awareness and acceptance do students in the class have toward classmates’ ADHD characteristics? Second, is there any difference between the degree of awareness and acceptance from students toward classmates’ ADHD characteristics? Third, is there any difference in the degree of awareness and acceptance of students toward classmates’ ADHD characteristics depending on the gender, the level of school, and academic achievement level? For this, the research process took place after convenient sampling one middle school and high school among many middle school and high school in Gwangju; then another convenient sampling was done to choose one class each from the 7th, 8th ,10th and 11th grade. A total of 290 adolescents were selected as research objects, and the survey was distributed among them. A total of 279 survey results were collected and were selected as the final analysis material. The descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, and F-test for were run for each research problem with the collected data through the SPSS 19.0 statistics program. The Ducan was run if the result was statistically significant. The research result is as follows. First, the awareness among adolescents toward students’ ADHD characteristics appeared to be quite low. Secondly, there was almost no difference between adolescents’ awareness and acceptance about classmates’ ADHD characteristics such as attention deficit, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness. However, the degree of awareness for impulsiveness was lower than the degree of acceptance. Thirdly, when taking a look at differences in related factors for adolescents’ degree of awareness and acceptance toward classmates’ ADHD characteristics, both male and female students had low degrees of awareness and acceptance, so there was no difference in gender. Next, when taking a look at the difference between levels of schools, middle school students appeared to have a higher degree of awareness than high school students. However, there was no difference in the degree of acceptance in the level of schools. Lastly, when taking a look at the difference between academic achievement levels, the degree of awareness showed different results for each ADHD characteristic. There was difference according to the academic achievement level in overall including hyperactivity and impulsiveness the degree of acceptance showed difference according to the academic achievement level in overall including impulsiveness. The higher academic achievement level group showed higher degrees of awareness and acceptance.