• Proceedings of the Costume Culture Conference
• /
• 2003.04a
• /
• pp.86-87
• /
• 2003

통계청이 5년마다 조사하는 전국 인구 센서스에 따르면 2000년 전국 총 1천4백39만 가구 가운데 독신 가구는 2백 22만 가구로 전체 가구 중 15.4%를 차지하며 여성의 가구주는 2천6백 53명으로 48.25%가 혼자 살고 있으며 독신의 비율이 지난 10년 사이에 비해 많은 증가율을 보이고 있다고 보고되었다. 본 연구에서는 새로운 소비자로 등장한 독신, 그 중 여성 독신자를 대상으로 그녀들이 열어 가는 1인 가족시대의 라이프 스타일을 위 한 상품기 획을 제안하고자 하였다. (중략)

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
• /
• v.9 no.1
• /
• pp.359-365
• /
• 2009

The purpose of this study was to investigate the meaning of leisure experiences in the lives of unmarried women. To accomplish this purpose, this study focused on the cultural context of leisure activity of unmarried women. A total of 4 participants were selected through the process of purposive sampling. An ethnographic data was collected by the method of 'experiential description' phenomenologically based data on the leisure experience, participant observation, and in-depth interview. All verbal data from experiential description, participation observation, and in-depth interview were tape recorded and later transcribed, and analyzed through constant comparative method based on the phenomenological analysis. The following findings were the result of this study. three definitional components of leisure experience of unmarried women were identified as follows: 1) enjoyment and interest, 2) escape, and 3) freedom.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
• /
• 2007.11a
• /
• pp.293-297
• /
• 2007

The purpose of this study was to investigate the meaning of leisure experiences in the lives of unmarried women. To accomplish this purpose, this study focused on the cultural context of leisure activity of unmarried women. A total of 4 participants were selected through the process of purposive sampling. An ethnographic data was collected by the method of 'experiential description' phenomenologically based data on the leisure experience, participant observation, and in-depth interview. All verbal data from experiential description, participation observation, and in-depth interview were tape recorded and later transcribed, and analyzed through constant comparative method based on the phenomenological analysis. The following findings were the result of this study. three definitional components of leisure experience of unmarried women were identified as follows: 1) enjoyment and interest, 2) escape, and 3) freedom.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
• /
• v.22 no.6
• /
• pp.615-631
• /
• 2013

In this study, we attempt to explore various possible types of unmarried single women. Main purpose of the work is to find out possible types of unmarried single women in terms of their subjective views on single life based on Q methodology. Q methodology is a research method to study and understand people's "subjectivity" or their points of view. Here, we applied Q methodology to unmarried single women's subjective evaluation of their own lives. Thirty-one Q-questions were prepared through literature review, and were offered to eighteen unmarried single women. As a result, the subjects could be classified into the following five different types: (Type 1) 'I love my work but I hate pressure (for marriage) from others', (Type 2) 'I feel anxiety and stress (on marriage) but I am still waiting for a true love of mine', (Type 3) 'My life is most important and I'd rather enjoy my single life without restraint from others', (Type 4) 'I am weary of continuing my single life, and now I really want to get married and form a family', (Type 5) 'I don't feel comfortable with dating, marriage life etc, I'd rather continue my single life with less stress'.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
• /
• v.41 no.10 s.188
• /
• pp.173-184
• /
• 2003

The purpose of this research is to identify stereotypes toward the single women(30-49 age) held by university students. Stereotypes toward the single women were examined at two levels: to assess students' beliefs about the traits of single women and to categorize the traits into stereotypes. The main results of this study were as follows: 1) Students reported 99 traits associated with the single women. 2) Hierarchical cluster analysis of the trait groupings revealed two high-level clusters: a cluster of 45 positive traits and a cluster of 54 negative traits. Within the positive and negative clusters, 10 middle-level categories, 4 positive categories(enjoy living affluently, independence-oriented, progressive, openhearted), and 6 negative categories(lack of vitality, pitiful, self-centered, picky, childish, self-defensive) were identified. This results suggested that young adults believed negative stereotypes are more typical than positive ones.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
• /
• v.68 no.3
• /
• pp.51-71
• /
• 2016

The purpose of this study is to clarify macro causes influencing on the diversity of single-mother households poverty among OECD Countries including Korea. This study carried out pooled time series cross-section analysis applying unbalanced panel design on the period from 1981 to 2012. There is marked diversity on single-mother households poverty. GDP per capita does not contributes to reduce poverty, and female employment rate and % population 0-14 exacerbate poverty. Several factors contribute on poverty reduction including social spending, child cash spending, union density, employment protection on regular workers, proportional representation system, cumulative left cabinet, cumulative women seat. In Korea, it needs to overcome the limit of anti-poverty strategy mainly based on economic growth and labor market flexibility. And it needs to enlarge universal welfare institutions, child benefits, work-family reconciliation policy, and to design adjusted labor market institutions including union density and employment protection, to introduce consensus political model including proportional representation system to enhance left power and women's representation.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
• /
• v.20 no.6
• /
• pp.197-208
• /
• 2002

The purpose of this study was to investigate the economic lives of single households with the age of 30 through less than 50. The economic life was examined in three aspects; income, assets, and consumption expenditures and patterns. One hundred sixty single households were surveyed, with questionnaires for 15days from April 1 to April 15 of 2002, and analyzed with descriptive statistics. The results were as follows: about 30.8% of total single households in the sample were in the income group of 1,500,000 thought less than 2,000,000 won. The size of income for the 30's was less than that for the 40's. Compared with male single households, female single households were more in both low and high levels of income. The saving rate tended more or less to be low. The more the age, the higher the saving rate. As for debt, the 40's single households, male single households, high school single households (compared to the 30's single households, female single households, university and graduate single households, respectively) were relatively higher. In general, the single households tended to have debts due to preparation for housing, credit over use. The assets tended to be managed by themselves. The economic preparation for the old life was done by banking system rather than insurance. The average monthly living costs was higher in the age of the 40's single than the age of the 30's single. The living costs of the female single households was higher or lower than those of the male single households. As for consumption patterns, there was the most in the expenditure allocation for food away from home, then for culture entertainmentㆍsocial life, and for clothing and shoes. As for the convenience of the consumption life in overall, there were more responses in moderation and inconvenience than in convenience.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
• /
• v.9 no.2
• /
• pp.165-170
• /
• 2018

The purpose of this study is to recognize the necessity of smart furniture for single - person households and to suggest final design. It is assumed that smart furniture that meets the demand can be released in the future. To this end, we intend to solve the needs of the smart technology of the subject through in-depth interviews and persona establishment through demand research. Currently, the number of single-person households is expected to increase steadily and become the most important form of household composition in the future. In the future, it will be analyzed based on the in-depth interview after the target selection for the target needs research. Then, after insights are gathered through in-depth interviews, we apply the applicable smart technology to create the expected scenarios and draw conclusions about how smart furniture will function in the future.

• Women's Health Nursing
• /
• v.14 no.1
• /
• pp.44-55
• /
• 2008

Purpose: This study was done to assess the personal experiences of the coping process during pregnancy for single mothers. Methods: The participants were 17 single mothers who had stayed in a social welfare facility. Data was collected with an in-depth unstructured interview. Data analysis was done by the grounded theory method. Results: One-hundred twelve concepts and 49 sub-categories were confirmed in the analysis. The sub-categories were grouped into 19 categories; escape from a miserable family, wrong meeting, openness of sex, defenseless state of pregnancy, inevitable result of pregnancy, heartbreak by herself, closure, isolation, difficult situation of being alone, stigma, supporting & protecting, helplessness, seeking, empowering, feeling of loss, conflict, facing issues, assuring a fresh start and becoming-mature. "Being driven over the edge of a cliff" was the key phenomenon which the single mothers experienced during the process of pregnancy. Conclusion: The above results will help nurses assessing single pregnancy mothers' needs and developing a nursing intervention program for supporting them. Therefore, nurses will be able to stop them from "being driven over the edge of cliff". A more vigorous nursing intervention is suggested for the research of the vulnerable classes of medical health care including single pregnant mothers.

• Bulletin of Food Technology
• /
• v.12 no.2
• /
• pp.10-25
• /
• 1999

전체적인 국민 생활수준의 향상에 따라 건강에 대한 관심이 매우 높아지면서 고품질의 신선 식품에 대한 수요가 급격히 늘고 있는 추세이다. 그 가운데에서도 과일, 채소류의 비중이 점차 증대되고 있으며, 이들의 가공제품보다는 신선한 식품에 대한 소비 성향이 괄목할 만한 성장세를 나타내고 있다. 이와 함께 신선 과일, 채소류의 소비에 있어 변화하고 있는 또 다른 경향은 소비자가 이용시 간편성과 합리성을 추구하고 있다는 점이다. 이에 따라 최근에는 각종 신선편의식품이 시대의 조류에 맞춰 출시되고 있으며, 특히 이들 상품에 대한 수요는 여성의 사회진출, 맞벌이 부부의 증가, 독신자의 증가, 노인층 구매력의 증가 등 여러 가지 사회환경 변화에 부응하여 더 더욱 증대할 것으로 판단된다. 이에 본고에서는 한국식품개발연구원이 보건복지부의 연구비 지원으로 수행중인 보건의료기술 개발과제와 관련하여 신선 과채류 편의식품의 안전성 및 저장성 측면에서 품질향상을 위해 적용할 수 있는 각종 새로운 기술, 즉 원재료에서 포장된 상품 상태까지 과일, 채소류의 최소가공 과정을 포함한 전 단계의 처리방법을 소개하고 자 한다.