• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.381-391
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• 2015

Today, individuals' psychological attitude toward health has been changed from passive to active and dynamic way of thinking. This trend has made attention to wellness more interesting. However, prior studies regarding wellness have been limited in developing indices to measure status of individuals' wellness. Thus, this study adopts five major components of wellness, including physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and occupational wellness in order to examine their effects on individuals' wellness state. The data from 494 employee at various organizations were analyzed to test proposed hypotheses. The results reveal that five components of wellness have a significant influence on wellness status. Based on the findings, academic and practical implications for wellness convergence systems are discussed.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.241-251
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• 2012

Despite the increasing importance that companies currently place on employee wellness, few studies have explored the impact of wellness on individual and team performance in the workplace. Drawing on the broaden-and-build theory, we hypothesize that wellness intention, wellness leadership, and wellness climate influence the performance of both individuals and teams. We tested our hypotheses using data collected from 495 employees of 81 teams in 11 Korean companies. Our analysis indicates that wellness leadership and wellness climate are meaningful interventions between perceived wellness and performance. Wellness intention did not impact perceived wellness. However, the interaction between wellness intention and wellness leadership impacted perceived wellness. Wellness climate negatively moderated the relationship between perceived wellness and performance.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.597-606
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• 2014

This study aims to investigate the relationship of physical wellness, intellectual wellness, emotional wellness, subjective happiness and quality of life of employees. The proposed model analyzed 535 employees using Smart Partial Least Square (PLS) 2.0. The results of the experiment are as follows: First, physical, intellectual, and emotional wellness positively influenced subjective happiness. Second, subjective happiness positively influence life satisfaction. The results show improve the lives of the employee's quality of life and wellness, happiness. We study life quality, wellness, and happiness on subjective aspects in the workers. Therefore, analyzed result can be a basic research for the lives of the employees' quality.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.357-363
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• 2015

This study investigated the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of Galla Rhois (Rhus verniciflua) on LPS (lipopolysaccharide)-stimulated human osteoblastic cells (MG-63). The aim of this study was to evaluate the LPS induced nitric oxide (NO) production and antioxidant radical in human osteoblast-like MG-63 cells. Therefore, the present work indicate that Galla Rhois extracts may be an ideal candidate for further research into their use for dental caries prevention component as well as, natural plant-based products. This suggested that 80% methanol and hexane extracts of Galla Rhois were inhibited NO generation and 1,1-diphenyl-2-pirylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical. Therefore, 80% methanol and hexane extracts of Galla Rhois may be utilized as a good source of protection against inflammation and oxidative stress. This study is intended to pursue wellness convergence in quality of life in the excavations in natural ingredients to create a variety of oral products with fewer side effects, cheap oral products for the dental treatment.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.361-371
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• 2018

This study is an empirical study on the effect of wellness factors on the quality of life and subjective happiness of disabled workers, and aims to contribute to living a healthy life by experiencing wellness in the real life. This study used raw data of the 8th employment panel survey for the disabled, and explored factors such as physical wellness, emotional wellness, social wellness, cognitive wellness, and occupational wellness through exploratory factor analysis. And the wellness factors have a significant effect on the quality of life and subjective happiness of the disabled workers. The results showed that the five wellness factors had a positive (+) effect on the quality of life and subjective happiness of the disabled. Also, the quality of life has a significant effect on subjective happiness. In conclusion, it was confirmed that the quality of life and subjective happiness were improved only when the wellness of the disabled workers was increased. In the future, it is necessary to develop a wellness program suitable for the type of disability and to develop indicators that can be applied to real life situations.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.369-376
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• 2019

This study was aimed to develop a mobile wellness program, and then to examine the effectiveness of the program in office workers to improve their physical activity. A single group pre-test post-test design was used. A total of 26 office workers received a mobile wellness program using a wearable device during 12 weeks. Effectiveness of the intervention was measured at soon after a mobile wellness program. There were significant differences between pre-test and post-test on daily steps (t=-2.52, p=.018), competence (t=-2.12, p=.044), and wellness(t=-2.83, p=.009). In conclusion, the mobile wellness program using a wearable device is effective for office workers by improving daily steps and encouraging their competence and wellness.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.517-528
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• 2015

An analysis of the Convergence structural model on well-dying awareness has been conducted with a sample of 769 retired seniors who are participating in sports activities, and the results are as follows; First, after testing the goodness-of-fit of our structural model on well-dying awareness among retired seniors participating in sports activities, the final model was a good fit with physical care, which is a sub-variable of health promotion behaviors, and physical wellness, which is a sub-variable of wellness, used as covariates. Second, as a result of influence verification, the structural model showed six paths in total: resocialization${\rightarrow}$well-dying awareness, resocialization${\rightarrow}$health promotion behaviors, resocialization${\rightarrow}$wellness, health promotion behaviors${\rightarrow}$wellness, health promotion behaviors${\rightarrow}$well-dying awareness, and wellness${\rightarrow}$well-dying awareness.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.231-243
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• 2017

This paper provides a review of the electrical sensing biosensors and examine research cases of biosensors based on clothing and textiels. A biosensor which can measure bio-signals is a device that senses the physical and chemical characteristics of biological materials by using biological sensing materials. Therefore, wellness wear that is closely integrated with the user's real life will play an important role in achieving U-Health. The biosensors' unique feature which can be differentiated from the existing sensors is it's using of selective reactions and binding of biological substances. The electrical sensing biosensors are very small in size due to the processing of electrical signals, which can be used to create ubiquitous. Therefore, it is necessary to study electrical sensing biosensors that are easy to miniaturize to develop wellness wear. This paper describes the electrical sensing biosensor (an electrochemical method nanowire/carbon nanotube FET method) in detail. Finally, the future direction of biosensors to be applied to wellness wear is suggested.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.79-86
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• 2013

I have empirically investigated the relationship between work-family facilitation and perceived team performance and the moderating effect of wellness climate between work-family facilitation and perceived team performance. For testing hypothesis, hierarchical linear regression was conducted. The results of analysis are followings; hypothesis 1, work-family facilitation is positively related to perceived team performance, was significantly supported. Hypothesis 2, wellness climate moderates the association between work-family facilitation and perceived team performance. The results imply that when the HR practitioners design job and welfare program of employees should consider work-family facilitation. Additionally, to improve the performance of organization should consider not only work-family facilitation but also climate of organization supporting work-family facilitation, wellness climate.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.337-344
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• 2015

Medicinal plants containing wellness-fusion-complex compound are increasingly being pursued as suitable alternative sources of various biological properties. In this study, inhibitory effect of Quintinia acutifolia, which is a New Zealand plant, on P388 murine lymphocytic leukemia cells using MTT [3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)- 2,5-diphenyl-tetrazolium bromide] assay. Based on $^1H-NMR$, $^{13}C-NMR$ spectral data and other spectral analysis, 2,3,2'',3''-tetrahydroochanaflavone (1) and 2'',3''-dihydroochana-flavone (3) inhibited the leukemia cells were purified from the plants. 2,3,2'',3''-tetrahydroochanaflavone (1) and 2'',3''-dihydroochana-flavone (3) are biflavonoids possessing two basic flavonoids and actively inhibited growth of P388 murine lymphocytic leukemia cells with a 50% inhibitory concentration ($IC_{50}$) of $8.2{\mu}g/mL$ and $3.1{\mu}g/mL$, respectively. Specially, 2'',3''-dihydroochana-flavone (3) possessed unconjugated flavonone system, which isn't consist of a pair with B ring of 2,3,2'',3''-tetrahydroochanaflavone (1). Therefore, the two compounds could be considered as a candidate for development of anticancer drugs and need to much studies in the future.