The Effect of Multicultural Adolescents’ Career Barriers on Depression: Focused on Mediating Effect of Parent’s Rearing Attitudes and Relationship between Multicultural Adolescents and Teachers

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of multicultural adolescents’ career barriers on depression focused on mediating effect of parent’s rearing attitudes and relationship between multicultural adolescents and teachers.Methods: The empirical analysis data of this study was extracted from the 8th Multicultural Adolescents Panel Survey. The subjects of this study were 1194 multicultural adolescents. The data were analyzed with Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis.Results: The significant factor related to supervision (B=-0.26, p<0.001) and negligence (B=0.31, p<0.001) of parent’s attitudes and relationship with teachers (B=-0.43, p<0.001) included perceived career barriers. Negligence of parent’s rearing attitude (B=0.21, p<0.001) increased depression while supervision of parent’s rearing attitude (B=-0.14, p<0.001) and relationship with teachers (B=-0.06, p<0.01) decreased depression. Parent’s rearing attitudes and relationship with teachers were mediators between career barriers and depression.Conclusions: Based on the results of this study, it is desirable to reduce the level of depression by lowering the career barriers, parent’s rearing attitude (negligence), and by increasing the parent’s rearing attitude (supervision) and relationship with teachers (adaptation). It is suggested to develop effective educational programs to decrease the depression level of multicultural adolescents.