• Korean Journal of Comparative Education
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.199-229
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• 2016

This study was to examine the correlations between parenting styles, Chinese high school students' character strengths, and their school adjustment, and direct and indirect effects of parenting styles and character strengths on their school adjustment. The subjects were 378 high school students in Zheng Zhou, China. Results were as follows. Firstly, parenting styles, character strengths, and school adjustment showed significant correlations among each other. Secondly, there were significant gender differences on authoritarian parenting style, courage, and peer relations. Thirdly, the structural equation model for the participants supported that authoritarian parenting style and authoritative parenting style had direct and indirect effects on school adjustment. Also, students' character strengths mediated between authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles and school adjustment. Implications of the study were discussed in depth.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.361-369
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to investigate the adaptation factor to North Korean refugees by identifying the relationship between character strengths affecting adaptation process and psychological well-being(PWB) in South Korea. The study examined the relationship between PWB and character strength of 117 participants and identified the sub-factors of character strength that affect the settlement period in South Korea. The data were analyzed by using the Model 1 of Process Macro and SPSS 22. The results of this study showed a correlation between PWB and sub-factors of character strength such as wisdom, humanity, courage, justice, temperance, and spirituality. The main effect was to investigate the relationship between PWB and sub-factors of character strength by independent variables. The level of PWB increased with the level of sub-factors of character strength. The moderate effect was showed in the courage of the settling period in relation to PWB. Finally, Limitations and implications of this study was discussed.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.587-604
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• 2017

The purpose of this research is to analyze generation gap of positive effects on character strength for full life of adults in Korea and to verify mediating effect of volunteering from character strength in this roots. To test this effects, there was an investigated differences of perception on character strength, volunteering and full life from 1,405 Koreans. Then had set up the influence model of character strength on full life between generation, and verified the model through structural equation. Therethrough first, there was statistical significant between generations except the variables of trust, full life and meaning of life. Second, full life was positively influenced by character strength in early adulthood. Third, volunteering had fully mediated from character strength to full life in post middle aged adults, but had partially mediated in early adulthood. This will help acquaint us with importance of accompany with volunteering at character strength than character strength directly connects to full life. Based on these results, we are treated on importance of mediating volunteering effects and influences of character strengths on full life in Korean society.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.228-236
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• 2014

The purpose of this study among university students is to analyze difference of their character strengths by life satisfaction and to indicate the primary factors of character strength that affect life satisfaction. The study has shown that among 24 character strength factors, only kindness, self-control, hope, optimism and humor lead to life dissatisfaction, and the other factors lead to higher satisfaction. According to the primary factors of character strengths that affect life satisfaction, love, fairness, appreciation and spirituality affect life satisfaction similarly. In addition, love and humor is directly related to it while spirituality, appreciation and fairness are indirectly related. Moreover, the primary factors of life satisfaction in order are love, humor, spirituality, appreciation and fairness.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.861-870
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• 2018

The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the mediating effect of occupational engagement on the relation of college students' character strength on career adaptability. In order to accomplish the purpose of this paper, the subjects were students majoring in Multimedia content at University in Pusan, Instruments used in the research were as follows: Career Adapt-Ability Scale(CAAS), Korea-Adapted Virtue Inventory of Strength(K-AVIS), and Occupational Engagement. The results of this research were as follows: First, Male college students had higher degree of career adaptability than female students. Second, sub-factors of character strength had significantly effected on career adaptability. Finally, occupational engagement moderated partially on the relation between career adaptability and character strength.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.487-494
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to construct a personality strength-based group counseling program that can have a positive effect on the happiness of pop culture and arts people and to verify its effectiveness. To this end, 16 artists from entertainment agencies and art high schools in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do were recruited and assigned to experimental and control groups, and pre- and post-examinations were conducted on both groups as personality strengths and happiness tests. In order to verify the effectiveness of the program, the experimental group conducted a total of eight personality strength programs once a week and 60 minutes per session, and the control group was ignored. As a result of the study, the personality strength and happiness of the group participating in the program were significantly improved compared to the control group, showing that training to strengthen personality strength can lead a happier life by promoting the happiness of youth pop culture artists. This is meaningful in that it has created a starting point for managing the mental health of pop culture subjects.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.185-197
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• 2019

This study intended to analyze the early childhood education freshmen's academic interest. For this study relationship among academic self-efficacy, character strength and learning motivation. The study subjects were 144 early childhood education freshmen at K-college in Deagu. They answered the survey regarding academic self-efficacy scale, VIA-IS(Values in action inventory of strength) short form scale, school learning motivation scale. The collected data were analyzed by frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis using SPSS 18.0 program. The study finding are as follows. First, the average of academic self-efficacy, character strength and learning motivation of students were near at the intermediate-level. Second, academic self-efficacy, character strength and learning motivation were significantly positive correlated. Third, when examining the relative effect of early childhood education freshmen's academic self-efficacy and character strength on learning motivation, self regulatory efficacy among the sub-factors for academic self-efficacy and courage among the sub-factors for character strengths.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.829-849
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• 2014

The purposes of this study were to compare elementary gifted students with general students in respect of their character strengths, emotional intelligence and learning flow and to analyze the relationships. The results obtained in this study were as follows. First, the character strengths, emotional intelligence, and learning flow of the gifted students were higher than those of the general students. Humanity was the highest virtue for both gifted and general students. Gifted students showed a significantly lower mean difference in humility and modesty than that of general students. The gifted students showed a statistically higher mean value in the sub-regions of emotional intelligence and all sub-areas of the learning flow than that of the general students. Second, the strong correlations were found between character strengths and emotional intelligence, between character strengths and learning flow in gifted students. Third, the results showed that the character strengths of gifted students affected their emotional intelligence and learning flow significantly.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.353-362
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of character strength and self-efficacy on subjective happiness of adult learners of distance nursing education. The subjects were 261 adult learners of Bachelor Science in nursing course for Registered Nurse of a national open university. The mean score of subjective happiness of subjects was a little lower. 'Transcendence and Humanity' among Character Strength was the highest and 'Justice' was the lowest. Multiple regressions showed that positive integrity, hardiness, and perceived health status explained 38.0% of subjective happiness and positive integrity was the main influencing factor. The learning supporting strategies focusing on reinforcing these factors are needed to improve the subjective happiness of nurses who are continuing their learning through distance education.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.93-100
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between career decision-making self-efficacy, character strength, and gratitude as a factor influencing the happy life of adults. Subjects were 89 adults in university and graduate school. SPSS 23.0 and PROCESS Macro were used for data analysis. Significant correlations were found between career decision-making self-efficacy, character strength, gratitude, and happy life. The direct effect of career decision-making self-efficacy, an independent variable, on happy life, a dependent variable, was not significant. Character strength and gratitude, which are mediators, were significant. Therefore, the indirect effect and the total effects showed significant results. Career decision-making self-efficacy does not directly predict a happy life, but if it mediates character strengths and gratitude, it means that a happy life can be predicted.