Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association (대한가정학회지)

The Korean Home Economics Association (대한가정학회)
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Status quo Analysis on the Wearing Practice of Household Rubber Gloves for Quality Improvement

가정용 고무장갑의 품질개선을 위한 사용실태 분석

  • 전은경 (울산대학교 생활과학부 의류학 전공) ;
  • 유화숙 (연세대학교 의류과학연구소 전문연구원) ;
  • 임지영 (동명정보대학교 정보조형학부 패션디자인학과)
  • Published : 2002.04.01
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Abstract

This study was conducted to analyze the wearing practice and the purchasing characteristics of household rubber gloves in order to obtain the product demands for quality improvement. The effects of wearing time per day and demographic characteristics on those were evaluated. A questionnaire was developed and administered to 494 housewives. Statistical tests such as descriptive analysis, crosstabs, factor analysis, one-way ANOVA, were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that housewives were largely divided into two groups according to the wearing time per day. One group wore gloves more than 3 hours a day, while the other wore less than 3 hours. We found that there were significant differences in the wearing practice and the purchasing characteristics between these two groups. It showed that the quality improvement of household rubber gloves should be achieved in a point of view of the comfort feeling and easiness in wearing and taking off. The housewives showed positive attitude toward pliability and necessity, while negative altitude toward dryness, comfort and mobility in wearing. The household rubber gloves were identified as the necessities which is so familiar and common that only a few of demographic characteristics have effect on.

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