A Study on Structural Relations among the Social Support, Self-Esteem, and College Life Adjustment of College Students Participating in Convergence Leisure Sports Activities

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate relations among the social support, self-esteem, and college life adjustment among college students participating in convergence leisure sports activities. Selected to attain the purpose were 300 college students that took a course on leisure sports at universities in Gyeonggi-do, Chungcheong-do, and Jeolla-do Provinces. After excluding 59 questionnaires that seemed to contain insincere answers from total 300 questionnaires, 241 were used in analysis as final valid samples. They were analyzed in frequency, reliability, and correlation analysis with the PASW Ver. 18.0 program and then confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling analysis with the AMOS 18.0 program. The findings were as follows: First, support from family and support from others among the subfactors of social support had positive effects on positive ego, one of the subfactors of self-esteem, and negative ones on negative ego.Secondly, positive ego, one of the subfactors of self-esteem, turned out to have positive impacts on academic adjustment and school life adjustment, two of the subfactors of college life adjustment, whereas negative ego had negative impacts on academic adjustment and school life adjustment.