Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1980;18(2):49-55.
논문편 - 아동학 및 가족관계편 : 청소년의 자아개념과 금전관리행동에 관한 연구
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A Study on the Money Management Behavior of Adolescents with Reference to the Self-Concepts
Duck Soon Hwang
ABSTRACT
As the society has been capitalized, the importance of money has appeared widely. And there are many problems caused from the lack of money is supposed rather a qualitative problem happened by mismanagement of money than a quantitative. The purposes of this study are to suggest the desirable direction in money management education to adolescents and to provide some basic data to resolve the juvenile delin-quency caused from lack of money. With this purposes this study dealt with the money management behavior of adolescents with reference to self-concept, which was considered one of the influential factors to the money management behavior. Questionnaires composed with the Self-concept test (developed by Dr. chung) and the Money management test (developed by Dr. Troelstrup) were distributed to 300 high school students. 180 of them was taken as data. mean score and F-ratio were applied as statistical methods. As result, significant difference in money management behavior between the groups divided by self-concept scores were found. The higher the self-concept score is, the more desirable the money management behavior is. Here we cannclude as follow; As the money management behavior of adolescents differs with reference to the self-concept, it is possible to help the adolescents 세 develop the money management by inspiring the self-concept. And money management training as a consumer education is needed by all means at home, because it has an important effect upon the identity establishment, the major developmental task in adolescence.
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