Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to determine the influence of variable affecting young adult’s growth after adversity to promote post-adversity growth in the counseling and treatment field. For this purpose, date were collected from 208 young adults aged 18 to 39 living in Korea and the collected data were analyzed using the SPSS 25.0 and the AMOS 26,0. The purpose of this study is to view growth after adversity as a result of positive psychological factors and to examine the influence of each of the balanced time perspective and social connectedness and the relation of the two variables on growth after adversity. Frequency analysis was performed to identify demographic characteristics of the survey subjects, and descriptive statistical analysis was performed to examine the trends of the major variables, and Pearson’s product moment correlation analysis was performed to examine the correlation between major variables. Hierarchical regression analysis was performed to examine the influence of major variables on growth after adversity, and path analysis was performed to verify the research model, and the statistical significance of the indirect effect was confirmed using the bootstrap method. The main results of this thesis are as follows. First, among demographic variables, religion showed a significant effect on growth after adversity. Second, balanced time perspective and social connectedness tended to have an important effect on growth after adversity. Third, the result of examining the path leading to growth after adversity showed that balanced time perspective affects social connectedness and this process leads to growth after adversity. The finding of this thesis is that the balanced time perspective and social connectedness are important in order to have growth after adversity, and this suggests the necessity of developing and progressing related programs by utilizing positive factors in counseling or clinical settings.