• Journal of the Korean Society of Child Welfare
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• no.53
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• pp.51-76
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between children's attachment to their biological parents and their self-esteem of children in out-of-home care. The mediating effects of a caregiver and peer attachment in this relationship were also examined. This study used the first year data from the Korea Panel Data of Children in Out-of-Home Placement. The sample consisted of 426 children in the fifth and sixth grades. Structural Equation Modeling revealed that children's attachment to their biological parents had no direct effects on self-esteem. Moreover, the relationship between children's attachment to biological parents and self-esteem was fully mediated by both caregiver attachment and peer attachment. Based on these findings, further suggestions are provided to increase self-esteem of children in out-of-home care by having regular visits of biological parents and thus improving parent, caregiver, and peer attachments.

• Proceedings of the SOHE Conference
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• 2004.12a
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• pp.106-106
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• 2004

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.302-311
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate on parenting stress, parenting guilt feelings and separation anxiety and alternative care in nurses. Data were collected from nurses with preschooler at 2 hospitals from August 2013 to January 2014. Self reported questionnaires were used to collect data from 163 nurses. There were significant differences according to the age, satisfaction of work place and co-worker, spouse support of parenting in parenting stress, parenting guilt feelings and separation anxiety in common. The majority type of alternative care was surrogate foster home when they went to work. However, there were significant differences according to type of alternative care in parenting stress, parenting guilt feelings and separation anxiety. Particularly, those who use child day-care center and surrogate foster home showed more parenting guilt feelings and separation anxiety in Scheffe post-hoc comparison. As a result, it is needed to be improvement of working conditions and policy for nurses' parenting support to continue work.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.53-72
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to understand the meaning and nature of long term boarding care of children provided by grandparents in surrogate foster homes. Data were collected from 10 children 15 to 18 years of age by in depth interviews and observation from May 2007 to July 2007. Analysis of data was by the phenomenological analytic method of Giorgi(1970). Seven essential themes were extracted: (1) ambivalence about being labeled "family headed by a child," (2) recognition of the burden to grandparents with appreciation for their care, (3) resentment and yearning for parents, (4) economic hardship, (5) discord with grandparents, (6) maladjustment to school life, and (7) overcoming such obstacles as poor economic conditions and loneliness.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.159-176
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• 2014

This study aims to examine the suggestions by studies that family predictors are related to developmental outcomes more strongly for children reared principally by their parents compared to those with extensive child care experience. Zero-order correlations between family predictors and developmental outcomes were conducted and the significance of differences in correlation coefficients between the two child care groups were examined. There was no evidence that there exist systematic differences between the two groups in predictive power of family factors except a few exceptions. At 2 years, social parenting style was more strongly associated with communication ability in the extensive child care group. At 3 years, some HOME subscales were related to a child's expressive and receptive vocabulary skills in significantly greater magnitudes in the mother care group. The findings also implied the potential contribution of child care environment on developmental outcomes for those who spend extensive hours in nonmaternal care.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.57 no.3
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• pp.105-131
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• 2005

This study intended to understand how the use of social welfare services and the satisfaction from the use affect poor children's psychosocial adjustment. Especially, it focused to find out whether the use of satisfied services has an independent effect on poor children's psychosocial adjustment when other relevant variables are controlled. Participants are 904 poor children from 16 nationwide cities/provinces who receive financial sponsorship from Korea Welfare Foundation in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Among them, 8.2% is from youth-headed homes, 22.7% is from grandparent-care homes, 8.2% is from relative foster homes, 1.8% is from non-relative foster homes and 59.1% is from other poor families. The results of this study are as follows: 1) According to MANOVA, poor children who received 2 or more satisfied social welfare services are significantly different from those who received 1 or no service in their combined psychosocial adjustment subcategories. Delinquency among the subcategories is the most influencing variable in combined differences. 2) Controlling sex, age, family structure and other variables that are considered to be related to delinquency in previous research, the use of satisfied services is still the significant variable in decreasing delinquency among poor children. 3) Interaction effect between the use of satisfied services and parental supervision was statistically significant. Under the low level of parental supervision, the use of satisfied services has a significant effect on the decrease of delinquency. However, under the high level of parental supervision, the use of satisfied services has little effects. From these results, we found out that the use of satisfied social welfare services is a very significant factor influencing to prevent or decrease delinquency among poor children. Also we found out that it is critically important for poor children who receive the low level of parental supervision to have good-quality social welfare services in order to prevent delinquency.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.25-36
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to understand a ChoSun-jok female domesic worker's experience in a Korean home. This study adopted hermeneutic phenomenological method which was developed by van Manen. The participant for this study was a ChoSun-jok woman who had worked as a care-giver and housekeeper in Korean home for more than 2 years. She missed the time when she was raising her own daughter and son and expected the time that her family would be together. So, her present time wears away for her stable future in Korea which give an opportunity to make a good money. Also, she realized that she was a marginal existence : it meant she was neither a family member nor truly worker. She nursed the Korean children and did for the Korean family for money but wanted to be treated as a family member like a grandmother who could be honored about what she had done for the family. She felt that she was disregarded from the family when she miscommunicated with them because of the difference between cultures. She anticipated that she was appreciated for being here in the Korean home.

• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.207-213
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• 1995

Author reviewed psychodynamics and psychoanalytic treatment of obesity. A variety of psychodynamics and unconscious conflicts have been described in obese patients : eating as a defense against depression, eating as a substitute for maternal love, obese body as a larger penis, and eating as a self-soothing. There was a gross neglect of certain normal parenting roles in obese family. The parenatal superego structure was not as perfectionistic. As with children and other patients with preoedipal pathology, in obese patients the analyst in addition to being transference object is a new and different object who promote healthy maturation. Because of obese parients, in there projective identification, can provoke intense countertransference, the analyst have to consider it. On the other hand, many analysts' countertransferences to superobese patients is that huge person recalls one's own childhood relationship with adults and bring forth a feeling of helplessness.