The Effect of Coercive Parenting Attitudes on Happiness in Adolescents Who Have Experienced Delinquency: Focusing on Mediating Effect of Depression

Adolescent happiness is closely related to adolescent development and behavior, and it needs to be treated as important because it continues to have an impact even after adulthood. Therefore, this study tried to investigate the relationship between parents' forced parenting attitude and depression as factors related to happiness. In other words, the purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of depression in the process of coercive parenting attitudes affecting happiness. As a result of the study, it was found that forced parenting attitude had a significant positive effect on depression (t=3.805, p<.001). Also, depression was found to have a significant wealth effect on happiness (t=-10.129, p<.001), and forced parenting attitude was found to have a significant wealth effect on happiness (t=-4.924, p<.001). In the results of bootstrapping to verify the mediating effect, it was found that the coercive parenting attitude had an effect on happiness through depression. Therefore, it was found that depression had a mediating effect in the process of coercive parenting attitudes affecting happiness.