The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effect of ego resilience on correlation between
parent-child communication and self-directed learning ability in middle school students. The subjects of this
study were 417 out of 500 male and female students attending a coeducational middle school located in
Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, and a survey was conducted by employing the parent-child
communication scale, self-directed learning ability scale, and ego resilience scale. The findings of this study
can be summed up as below: First, according to the correlation analysis, there was significantly positive
correlation between parent-child communication and ego resilience and also between ego resilience and
self-directed learning ability. Second, according to the result of examining the mediating effect of ego
resilience in correlation between parent-child communication and self-directed learning ability, the model’s
goodness of fit index (GFI) was found to be favorable as χ²(N=417)=94.58(df=32), NFI=.959, RFI=.943,
TLI=.961, CFI=.973, RMSEA=.069, and RMR=.0412. Also, concerning the mediating effect, not in the
study model but in the competitive model, ego resilience was found to show full mediation in correlation
between parent-communication and self-directed learning ability in p<.001. This implies that parent-child
communication does not influence self-directedness directly but indirectly with the mediation of ego
resilience. In the end, this researcher discusses the significance and implications of this study.