• Child Health Nursing Research
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.120-129
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• 2013

Purpose: Parents with a premature infant are usually confronted with difficulties in caring for their babies and need education on appropriate care. The purpose of this paper was to describe the components of caring education for parents with a premature infant based on an integrative literature review and to present strategies for future education. Methods: Four electronic databases were searched to identify studies. Sixteen articles were selected through full text screening of related research published in domestic journals from January 1990 to October 2012. Results: Through in-depth discussion and investigation of the relevant literature, three components emerged; (a) nurses as educators and parents as learners, (b) education content including caring on admission or discharge, and effects of education, and (c) education environment including timing, place and materials. Conclusion: Future education on caring for premature infant should include the nurse as educator and have diverse content including parent's role, interaction with healthcare providers, and special care for premature infants with special problems. Moreover, highly technical teaching materials should be provided, along with continuous support of institution and government to individual caregivers. Results of this study provide comprehensive prospective and basic standards for education on premature infant care.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.89-97
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• 2017

The purpose of the present study was to estimate the effect of adolescents' depression on cell phone dependency and to identify mediating effects of parenting style and peer isolation. The study used data from the $6^{th}$ waves of 2015 KCYPS(Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey). Structural Equation Model(SEM) was conducted to examine the mediating effects of parenting style and peer isolation. The results showed that adolescents' depression had positive effects on cell phone dependency. In addition, the relationship between adolescents' depression and cell phone dependency was partially mediated by parenting style, not mediated by peer relationships. Based on these findings, further suggestions are provided to reduce adolescents' cell phone dependency by decreasing parent's over-involvement and improve adolescents' self control opportunities.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.555-563
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to examine the affecting factors of sexual experience by gender of 548 college students. The data was collected from 20th May to 20th June, 2013 in Gyeongsan City. Age, living arrangement, high school, dating experience and sexual attitudes of parents were significantly different in sexual experience and gender. The sex experienced student were first sexual intercourse during high school, and sex partner was 'dating partner'. The sex experienced student answered 'sometimes' about contraception, and sex place was 'own or partner's house'. In correlation of factors, sexual attitude and sexual subjectivity was related. Affecting factor of sexual experience were age, sexual attitude of parents', sexual knowledge, and sexual attitude. To improve effective and accessibility of sexual education program, it needs to use these study results and affecting factors in order to developing sex education program for college students.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.73-84
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• 2004

This study is to conducted to find out parents' level of knowledge on child sexual abuse prevention, and their demands for a parental education program on sexual abuse prevention. Two hundred and six parents of 5 to 7 year-old children in kindergartens in Kwangju and Chonnam were surveyed. Data were analyzed by using frequencies and percentages. The results are as followed Parents have obtained knowledge on sexual abuse through mass media, guiding books and so on. They were aware that communication with children is the most effective method for sexual abuse prevention. They were somewhat at a loss on exactly what to teach and how to teach the children. and complained about the lack of educational materials. They think that the age that is most appropriate for such education is between 6 and 7 year-old, and the parents and teachers are responsible for educating chi10en on sexual abuse. For the desired content of the education, they included sex, sexual abuse, and parents' coping.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.44 no.10
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• pp.121-132
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the parent education program based on the MBTI for mothers' on their parenting self-efficacy and family cohesion and family adaptability. The study participants comprised 66 mothers in the experimental group and 79 in the control group. The experimental group, underwent a twelve-week long parent education program, with weekly sessions providing 2 hours of parental education; The control group received no education. Data were analyzed by MANCOVA using scores of the pretest as covariance. Significant differences were found between the experimental and control groups in parenting self-efficacy, health parenting ability and learning guidance ability subscale. However, no differences were found between the two groups in family cohesion and family adaptability.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.15-28
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• 2001

This study investigated the effectiveness of the Empowering Parents Training(EPT) program of the Settling Life Foundation on the improvement of children's basic life habits, a parent education program. The subjects were 72 mothers of 3- to 6-year-old children in 2 kindergartens located in Yangchun-gu and Nowon-gu in the City of Seoul. There were 36 mothers each in the experimental group and the control group. The mothers in the experimental group took part in a $2{\frac{1}{2}}$ hour Settling Life Foundation program in 4 sessions. The results revealed differences between the experimental and control groups in children's basic life habits. Mothers taking part in the program showed very positive reactions.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.44 no.1 s.215
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• pp.37-45
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• 2006

The study aimed to determine the effects of Early Childhood STEP on parenting stress and child's behavior. The study subjects were 29 Korean mothers and their child. The researcher translated the Parent's guide of the Early Childhood STEP into Korean, along with the video tapes for parents. The experimental group was educated with the Early Childhood STEP program (lecture, reading educational material, discussion, watching video). To determine the pre- and post-test differences of parenting stress and infant behavior, t-test was used. The results are presented below. First, Early Childhood STEP exhibited a decreasing effect on the parenting stress of mothers. Second, STEP exhibited a decreasing effect on the infant behavior, particularly the behaviors in the areas of incapability, revenge, and power reactions.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.47 no.8
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• pp.53-69
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• 2009

Having developed a parent education program for guidance of internet-using children, we evaluated the effectiveness of this program. The program consisted of five two-hour sessions. It was test-run with nineteen participants, which included mothers of elementary school children. In the evaluation of the program, we employed so-called 'pretest-posttest control group design' which compares the difference in the parenting sense of competence, parents' sense of role satisfaction, parents' sense of insecurity, and parents' rearing attitudes between the experimental group and the control group. Program evaluation revealed that the parenting sense of competence and role satisfaction increased in the group that participated in the program compared to the non-participating group. Furthermore, the parents' sense of insecurity decreased and democratic rearing attitudes were fostered in the participating group.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.109-119
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of peer relations on the relationship between parenting behaviors and career maturity among adolescents. Data was collected from 425 middle school students who reside in Seoul by self-reported questionnaires. The method used for data analysis was structural equation modeling analysis using Amos. The results of this study revealed that parenting behaviors affected peer relations of adolescents. Peer relations influenced career maturity of adolescents. The structural equation modeling analysis indicated that peer relations mediated the relationship between parenting behaviors and career maturity.

• Korean Journal of Play Therapy
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.491-507
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to validate the Play Participation Attitude Scale for parents of preschoolers, which was developed by the Delphi survey. 447 parents of 9 daycare centers in Seoul and Incheon were recruited for this study and, finally, data from 339 parents were used to perform exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and reliability analysis. The results of the study are as follows. First, factor analyses revealed that the global fit of the sensitively play (7 items), responsively play (6 items), and delightfully play(7 items) three-factor model was good. Second, the internal consistency of the Play Participation Attitude Scale was good. Third, there was a statistically significant positive correlation between the current scale and the parents' playfulness scale, indicating concurrent validity. Finally, higher scores of the Play Participation Attitude Scale and its three factors significantly predicted lower scores of parenting stress and higher scores of the preschoolers' self-control ability. These findings revealed that this new measure to be both valid and reliable and specifically suggests what kind of attitude is appropriate for parents to adopt when participating in preschoolers' play.