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The Effect of Inequality Frames on Academic Engagement of the Migrated North Korean Adolescents

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2015, v.29 no.4, pp.133-158
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2015.29.4.007



& (2015). The Effect of Inequality Frames on Academic Engagement of the Migrated North Korean Adolescents. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 29(4), 133-158, https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2015.29.4.007

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of inequality frames on academic engagement of the migrated North Korean adolescents. We also examined whether the perception of injustice or identity threat mediated the effect of inequality frames on attitudes toward academic work. In Study 1 we compared the perceived importance of and motivation for study of the migrated North Korean adolescent students with that of South Korean students through a questionnaire survey. The results demonstrated that the migrated North Korean adolescents indeed perceived lower level of importance of and motivation for academic work than South Korean adolescents. The results of Study 1 also showed that as expected, motivation for study of migrated North Korean students decreased as they perceived a higher level of injustice in educational systems of Korea. On the other hand, importance of study increased as they perceived a higher level of injustice.. In Study 2 we manipulated three types of inequality framing (that is, the present academic inequality between the two groups of students was framed as South Korean students’ advantage vs. as North Korean migrant students’ disadvantage vs. no frame control) and investigated whether the academic engagement of the migrated North Korean students differed in terms of the inequality frames. The results demonstrated that as expected, compared to the inequality frame in terms of North Korean students disadvantage and the control condition, the frame in terms of South Korean advantage made the North Korean students perceive higher level of importance of academic work. In addition, we found the mediation effect of the perception of injustice in educational systems for this framing effect on the perception of the importance of academic work. In the case of motivation for academic work, as expected, compared to the inequality frame in terms of North Korean students disadvantage, the frame in terms of South Korean advantage made the migrated North Korean adolescents tend to report higher academic motivation. However, we did not find the mediation effect of the perception of injustice nor the identity threats on motivation for academic work. We discussed theoretical and practical implications of these findings.

keywords
migrated North Korean adolescents, psychological disengagement, inequality frames, perceived injustice, identity threat, importance of academic work, motivation for academic work, 북한이탈 청소년, 심리적 이탈, 불평등 프레임, 불공정 지각, 정체성 위협, 학업중요도, 학업동기

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