The moderated mediating effect of children's life satisfaction on the influence of parents' achievement pressure on academic stress and school adaptation of elementary school children in the upper grades: Using data from the 13th panel study on Korea

Objectives The purposes of this study was to explore the influence of parental achievement pressure on the school adaptation of children in the fifth and sixth grades of elementary school. Methods For this purposes, the study used data collected in the 13th(2023) year of the Panel Study Korean Children, and it selected 1,355 households that met all the variable. Basic attribute analysis of the data was performed using the SPSS 27.0 and Process Macro. Results The purposes of this study were to specify variables related to convergence competency, and to analyze the structural relationships among them. The purposes of this study were to specify variables related to convergence competency, and to analyze the structural relationships among them. Conclusions Fist, there was a significant correlation between parental achievement pressure and elementary school children's academic stress, school adaptation, and life satisfaction. Second, the mediating effect of children's academic stree on the relationship between parental achievement pressure and elementary school children's school adaptation was confirmed. Third, the moderated mediating effect of academic stress on the relationship between parental achievement pressure and elementary school children's school adaptation was confirmed to vary depending of life satisfaction.