• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.133-140
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• 2023

The purpose of the study is to verify the mediating effect of positive automatic thinking in the relationship between stress coping and psychological well-being in middle age. For this study, a survey was conducted on middle-aged people under the age of 40 to 65 living in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, and Incheon. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed from March 9 to March 27, 2023, and 187 questionnaires were used for the final analysis, except for 13 copies whose responses were judged to be poor or unreliable. Correlation, factor analysis, and structural equation models were conducted, and bootstrapping was analyzed to verify the mediating effect. As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed that coping with stress in middle age affects psychological well-being. As a result of analyzing the influence of problem-solving-oriented, social support-oriented, and avoidance-oriented as sub-factors of coping with stress, it was found to have a significant effect on psychological well-being. Stress coping has been shown to have a direct effect on psychological well-being and increase psychological well-being through the parameters of positive automatic thinking. consequently within the individual of coping with stress in middle age.It is expected that the buffering effect of external factors and positive automatic thinking will improve psychological well-being in middle age and achieve positive results.