• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.189-216
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• 2010

This study is to show the effect of single mothers' community participation on empowerment and the mediation effect of gender consciousness that mediate the causal relationship between this two variables defining the organization, which single mothers have been participated, as a community based on that there are common goals, emotional bond, and reciprocal action between the members. 439 single mothers, who have been participated in one of 14 organizations in Pusan and Gyeongnam, have been surveyed and the practice elements of emporwerment, gender consciousness, and empowerment have been analyzed from it. The results are first, There was significant differences at the practice elements of empowerment, gender consciousness, and empowerment according to the types of single mothers' community. Mostly it was high among job training type community and low among social welfare institution type community. Second, it has been shown that the determinant factors of empowerment are the degree of community participation and the practical elements of empowerment. Third, The changes in gender consciousness should be proceeded before that the practice of community empowerment, which the changes in gender consciousness represent the full mediation in the relationship between the practical elements and empowerment effect, leads the improvement of single mothers' empowerment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.105-129
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of librarian's empowerment and organizational commitment on organizational effectiveness in libraries. The subjects of this study were 148 librarians of 10 libraries in Jeollabuk-do in accordance to purposeful sampling of nonprobability sampling. The statistics program that was used to achieve the purpose was SPSS pc+ 20.0. The statistics methods were used one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation analysis, and multiple regression test. The following conclusion were drawn from the research procedures and data analysis. First, the librarian's empowerment level and organizational effectiveness make a difference by age level. But the librarian's organizational commitment make no difference by age level. Second, the librarian's empowerment level make a difference by marital status. But the librarian's organizational commitment and effectiveness make no difference by marital status. Third, the librarian's empowerment level make a difference by career in present librarian. But the librarian's organizational commitment and effectiveness make no difference by career in present librarian. Fourth, Very a high correlation is influence factor and all of the empowerment, competence factor, and all of the empowerment. Fifth, the organizational effectiveness is affected 9.3% by librarian's empowerment, 5.6% by librarian's organizational commitment.

• 한국노년학
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.63-77
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to examine the mechanism through which Senior Center User's services satisfaction impacts quality of life. We were particularly interested in the mediating effect of empowering Senior Center users. bootstraping method based on structural equation modeling were used. The partial and full mediation model were compared and X² difference test was conducted between the two models. The result showed that the mediating effect of empowering senior center user was statistically significant and accounted for the relationship between the senior center user's services satisfaction and quality of life. Empowering senior center user mediated fully the effect of senior center user's services satisfaction on quality of life. Practice and policy implications as well as further research topics were discussed to aid the search for highly effective interventions.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.430-438
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• 2013

An empirical study on railway controller and railway engineer who work in a domestic railway corporation was undertaken to verify the effects of emotional burnout and empowerment and organizational commitment on cooperation and safety behavior. The results of the analysis confirmed that the relations between emotional burnout, empowerment and organizational commitment as well as the relations between cooperation and safety behavior had negative effects. In contrast, the results of the analysis confirmed that empowerment and organizational commitment had positive effects on safety behavior and cooperation, and were effective because of all interactions among emotional burnout, safety behavior and cooperation. In conclusion this study convincingly demonstrates that emotional control, empowerment and organizational commitment of controller and engineer are important factors to secure safe operation of trains based on high safety behavior and cooperation behavior.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.119-137
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• 2011

This study examines the casual relationship between Sense of humor of teachers in childcare center and empowerment and job performance. The subjects of this study were 645 educare teachers from Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Chungcheng-do, and Jeonra-do. Spss version 18.0 and Amos 16.0 were used to analyze the date. The result of analysis showed that Sense of humor of teachers in childcare center has positive effect on both their empowerment and job performance, and it creates bigger total effect on their job performance through the mediation of their empowerment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.323-336
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of psychological empowerment in the relationship between job stress and burnout of middle managers in organizations. For this study, 329 middle managers, the participants in this research were working in organizations. They completed questionnaire survey of job stress, psychological empowerment and burnout. Main study results are as follows. First, job stress and psychological empowerment statistically showed a significant negative correlation, while psychological empowerment and burnout also showed a significant negative correlation. Job stress and burnout had a statistically significant positive correlation. Second, psychological empowerment mediated partially the relation between job stress and burnout. This study extends the burnout literature related to the job circumstance and individual internal factor by considering psychological empowerment in addition to the role of perceived job stress in middle managers in organizations. Based on these results, Implications and limitations of the study were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.421-431
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• 2019

This study aimed to verify the mediating effects of empowerment and social support in the process of parent-child relationship affecting the college adjustment. In this descriptive research, 219 university students were recruited as participants. Data collection was carried out from May to June 2019 via online survey. The results showed that parent-child relationship had significant direct effects on empowerment, social support, and college adjustment. Moreover, parent-child relationship had significant indirect effects on students' college adjustment via empowerment and social support. The indirect effect of empowerment was significantly higher than the indirect effect of social support with respect to the influence of parent-child relationship on college adjustment. It is necessary to improve parent-child relations and emotional intimacy through social support to promote the college adjustment of students. In addition, it is important to apply a program that can enhance empowerment, which is a powerful factor in college adjustment.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.529-548
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• 2022

This study was performed systematic review and meta-analysis for a comprehensive analysis of the empowerment related variables of clinical nurses in South Korea. Analysis were conducted in accordance with PRISMA guideline, and a total 71 papers were selected. Antecedent variables of empowerment were a total of 16 variables and 56 effect sizes, and showed the total effect size of 0.38 (95% CI: 0.31~0.44). Outcome variables empowerment were a total of 12 variables and 105 effect sizes, and the showed total effect size of 0.45 (95% CI: 0.41~0.48). This study showed the trends of studies and investigated the effect size of related variables objectively in the perspective of empowerment of Korean clinical nursing. This study has significance in that it presented the reliable evidence for the positive effect of empowerment on individuals, jobs, and organizations through reliable and valid research methodology.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.56 no.3
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• pp.135-157
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• 2004

This study was motivated from the proposition that readiness for self-sufficiency is important for future independent life of poor adolescents. This study focused on analyzing the effect of empowerment as a mediator as well as analyzing the effects of predictive factors of readiness for their self-sufficiency. For conducting this study, a survey method was used on 240 poor adolescents residing in Seoul. This study used path analysis method for analyzing mediator effect of empowerment. In the results, Statistically significant variables that had effect on readiness for self sufficiency through empowerment(intrapersonal, interpersonal, sociopolitical) were family relations and peer relations. Participation in social organization variable had a positive influence on readiness for self-sufficiency through interpersonal empowerment and sociopolitacal empowerment. Problematic variable had a negative influence on readiness for self-sufficiency through interpersonal empowerment. Such results provided knowledge foundations for diverse social work approaches related to promoting empowerment. Specifically, this study shows that diverse social services are necessary for promoting poor adolescents readiness and social work interventions are necessary for strengthening adolescents empowerment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.56-64
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to identify the moderating effect of intrapersonal empowerment between subjective well-being and smartphone addiction. It was conducted to measure research variables from 242 university students. The moderating effect according to intrapersonal empowerment was analyzed through hierarchical regression analysis. As a result of analysis, first, there were significant relationship, among subjective well-being, intrapersonal empowerment, and smartphone addiction. Second, subjective well-being and intrapersonal empowerment had a significant negative effect on the smartphone addiction. Third, intrapersonal empowerment had moderating effect within the relationship of subjective well-being and smartphone addiction. In other words, the higher level of intrapersonal empowerment showed that subjective well-being more strongly negative effect on the smartphone addiction. Implications of these results were explored in relation to the importance of empowerment that could be taken to reduce smartphone addiction.