• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.577-597
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• 2013

It has been known that it shows the negative correlation between social comparison and happiness. Nevertheless, the correlation depends on self-concept and motivation of comparison which a person take. Current study examined the effect of cultural self-concept (interdependent self, subjective-objective self) on social comparison and happiness (subjective well-being and psychological well-being), Total 2000 among 30-69 years old respondents participated in this survey. We found that, first, people with high interdependent self feel less happiness as they take more social comparison, but the people with low interdependent self do not show the relational pattern. Second, people with objective self show the negative correlation with happiness and social comparison, but there is no correlation with happiness and social comparison among people with subjective self. The implication for study were discussed.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.101-118
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• 2019

Alexithymia refers to a psychological deficit of identifying and describing one's feelings. It has benn reported that the level of alexithymia of East-Asians is generally higher than that of Western Europeans. Recently one research conducted in U.S. suggested that the interdependent self-construal from East-Asians' collectivism culture might be a cause of this cross-cultural difference. In the current study, we examined the relationship between the level of independent and interdependent self-construal of Korean college students and their level of alexithymia, as well as their ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and emotion suppression. The correlation analysis shows that the Korean students' alexithymia level does not correlate with their level of interdependent self-construal, but negatively correlates with their level of independent self-construal. Moreover, it is also correlated with the level of ambivalence over emotional expressiveness(AEE) and emotion suppression(ES). Thus, we setup a double-mediation model between the deficiency of independent self-construal and alexithymia via AEE and ES, and estimate mediation effects using Hayes and Preacher(2014)s' Process analysis. The results show that the deficiency of independent self-construal has a direct effect as well as indirect effects of AEE and ES on the alexithymia level. Further analysis on the indirect effects reveals that the mediation effect of AEE and the double mediation effect of ES via AEE are significant, but the mediation effect of ES is not significant. Current results imply that the interdependent self-construal from the traditional collectivistic culture may not cause Korean college students' problems on the emotional expression, but the relatively lower independent self-construal may cause them. The deficiency of independent self-constural may raise up the level of self-defensive ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and suppress emotional expression by themselves, which can result in alexithymia.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.171-197
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• 2023

The traditional Korean society has been classified as an Eastern collectivist culture, but in the flow of globalization and digitalization along with the post-Cold War era of the 1970s, Western individualistic culture and values quickly permeated the Korean younger generation. Since rapid changes occurred within a short period of time, there may be differences in cultural self-construal between generations living in the same era. Due to this, psychological problems related to emotional expression and suppression may appear differently depending on generations. Therefore, in the current study, 1,000 Korean adult men and women from their 20s to 60s were investigated for their level of independent and interdependent self-construal, alexithymia, ambivalence over emotional expression(AEE) and emotional suppression(ES). Then the relationship between the variables(self-construal and alexithymia,) and the mediating process of AEE and ES were examined. The generation of participants were divided into the industrialization cohort (birth year < 1970) and the digitalization cohort (birth year starting from 1970). Using the PROCESS macro(Hayes, 2022), we tested a serial mediation model of AEE and ES between the relative independent self-construal(RIS) and alexithymia. The results indicate that the level of alexithymia increases by the serial increase of AEE and ES when RIS decreases. Next, we examined a moderation effect of generatione on the mediation process of AEE and ES, and found that generation moderates the relationship between ES and alexithymia. That is, the effect of ES on alexithymia is significant for the digitalization cohort, while it is not significant for the industrialization cohort. The current results imply that emotion regulation strategies of Koreans have been differently developed according to prevailing cultural values in each generation, and that the negative influence of emotion suppression could be different according to the cultural background of each generation.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.177-203
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• 2014

It is well known that personality and situation which person possess have an impact on the relationships between stress coping and psychological wellbeing. Although most of studies on cultural self-construal have used the concept of individual/collectivism (independent/interdependent) scale, a part of research showed that it was not similar results when the concepts were used with Korean samples. We applied new scale, subjective-objective self, to our study. Two hundred eighty three participants (M = 21.66) participated in the present research. We found that persons with higher subjective self used more problem solving and seeking help, and less denial coping methods. Next, the higher subjective self influenced happiness and interpersonal relationship satisfaction. Finally, the coping methods of problem solving and seeking help influenced more happiness and interpersonal relationship satisfaction among people with higher objective self than did among people with higher subjective self. The implication for study were discussed.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.3
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• pp.79-97
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• 1999

지방자치제도의 본격적인 실시로 인하여 성숙되어 가고 있는 지방화시대에 있어서 지방자치단체가 가장 필요로 하는 것은 지역의 경제성장을 통하여 지역주민의 복지를 향상시키는 것이라고 할 수 있다. 지역주민의 복지향상은 광범위한 부문에서 다양하게 나타날 수 있지만, 가장 기본적으로는 지역내의 고용을 안정케 하며, 지역내의 소득수준을 향상시켜 주민들이 높은 삶의 질을 경험하게 하는 것이라고 할 수 있다. 그러나, 지금의 우리현실은 자기 지역의 경제발전만을 맹목적으로 추구할 것이 아니라 이웃과 더불어 힘을 합쳐도 어려운 난관을 헤쳐나가기 어려운 처지에 직면해 있다. 따라서, 서로가 자기의 몫을 주장하면서 다툴 것이 아니라 힘을 합쳐야 할 시점에 도달하였다. 이러한 관점에서 본 연구는 지리적으로는 인접하고 있지만 정서적으로는 가깝고도 먼 전라남도와 경상남도가 고부가가치를 창출할 수 있는 특화산업의 적절한 배치를 통하여 높은 수준의 경제번영을 이룩하면서, 동시에 기존의 쌓여있는 지역감정의 벽을 뛰어넘어 동서경제협력을 이루고 궁극적으로는 동서화합을 도출할 수 있는 방안을 모색하려고 한다. 각 지자체에 적합한 특화산업의 육성은 인접한 지자체들이 상호의존적이라는 측면에서 여러 가지의 지역문제를 동시에 하결할 수 있을 뿐만아니라 한정된 자원의 합리적인 이용과 더불어 국토의 균형있는 개발을 가능하게 할 수 있다는 측면에서 많은 긍정적인 요소를 내포하고 있다. 전라남도와 경상남도가 지역에 적합한 특화산업의 육성을 통하여 동서경제협력을 유도하기 위한 방안으로는 우선적으로 역내의 산업구조를 고도화시키고, 산 학 연 관의 협조체계를 구성하며, 지자체간의 협조적인 게임을 유도하여 가시적인 빠른성과의 도출을 위한 방안을 모색하고 타 지자체에 입지한 경쟁력있는 특화산업에의 지역민의 투자를 유도하고, 공동브랜드의 사용 및 시장의 공동개척등을 고려할 수 있을 것이다.