• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.21-42
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of reading and discussion activities on children's self-esteem in a social welfare center called 'Gongbubang.' A reading/discussion program was constructed to serve the purpose of the study and suit the selected children by referring to earlier studies that found reading programs were effective at boosting the self-esteem of elementary schoolers. The subjects in this study were 21 children in 'HaedamGongbubang', a general social welfare center located in an urban region in South Gyeongsang Province. Out of them, 12 children who involved four boys and eight girls were selected as an experimental group, and nine who included five boys and four girls were grouped into a control group. The reading/discussion program was implemented in eight sessions during a four-week period of time from September 23 to October 15, 2009, twice a week, 50 to 55 minutes each. The instrument used in this study was Yoon Hyang-mi(2008)'s Self-Esteem Inventory, and the collected data were analyzed with a SPSS 12.0 program. The major findings of the study were as follows: First, the reading and discussion activities had an effect on bolstering the general self, social self and academic self of the children in the Gongbubang, a social welfare center. Second, the reading and discussion activities were effective at improving the general self and academic self of the school boys in the Gongbubang, a social welfare center. Third, the reading and discussion activities had an effect on fostering the social self and academic self of the school girls in the Gongbubang, a social welfare center. The findings of the study illustrated that the reading and discussion activities had an effect on furthering the self-esteem of the children in the Gongbubang, a social welfare center, and those activities are expected to be conducive to the self-esteem of children in Gongbubangs, which are social welfare centers.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.645-649
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• 2022

This study verified the relationship between empowerment and job satisfaction and mediating effect of self-esteem of specialists in rehabilitation centers. We surveyed of 325 specialists in 14 centers of Deajeon and Chungnam. The analysis result is that specialists' empowerment has an positive effect on the job satisfaction and the self-esteem mediates between empowerment and job satisfaction. Considering this analysis result, we can suggest several plans to improve the job satisfaction. Firstly, in order to promote the empowerment, it is important to provide directors' positive leadership, appropriate support for the improvement of empowerment of specialists and their voluntary efforts, and development of self-leadership for voluntary work efforts and improvement of self-efficacy. Secondly, for enhancement of the self-esteem, operation of monitoring program to advance self-awareness, establishment of smooth cooperative system with colleagues, and managers' advocacy supervision is required.

• Proceedings of the KHMA Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.316-326
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• 2012

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.287-293
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• 2021

The object of this research is to make an analysis of the relationship between professionalism perception and turnover intention of employees in the welfare center for the disabled. This also verifies the mediating effect of self-efficacy between the two variables. We conducted a survey of employees being engaged in 14 centers of Chungnam/Daejeon areas and the 356 data were analyzed. The analysis results are as follows : 1) the professionalism perception of employees had a positive effect on turnover intention and self-efficacy. 2) the mediating effect of self-efficacy was verified between the professionalism perception and the turnover intention. Based on the findings of this study, some countermeasures were presented to reduce the employees' turnover intention.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.179-187
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• 2024

This study aims to develop policies and programs to improve self-differentiation that will have an impact on establishing a positive view of marriage among college students by examining and confirming the impact of college students' self-differentiation on their views on marriage among college students in early adulthood. This is an attempted research study. For this purpose, a self-report online survey was conducted and analyzed among 204 college students attending a university in northern Gyeonggi Province. The analysis method used SPSS 25.0 program to calculate internal consistency, frequency analysis to identify the general characteristics of the research subject, descriptive statistical analysis to determine the level of the research variable, and differences in research variables according to the characteristics of the research subject. To find out, an independent samples t-test, analysis of variance, and post hoc test were conducted, and analysis using SPSS Process Macro was conducted to verify the mediation effect. The results of the analysis showed a positive (+) correlation between self-differentiation and views on marriage, which suggests that self-differentiation has a significant impact on establishing a positive view on marriage, and for this purpose, it is necessary to establish a positive view on marriage among college students. To this end, we aimed to provide basic data to support education for healthy families through national policy.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.219-227
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between self - integration and frontal cognitive function in the welfare center users. The data were collected on January 18-30, 2018. 120 people in the M city, has participated in more than 65 years older. data were analyzed using frequency, mean and standard deviation, t-test, ANOVAs, and Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study showed that current satisfaction of welfare center users is statistically different from 'attitude toward life', 'acceptance of lifetime', 'satisfaction of present life' of ego integrity. Self - integration sense showed 28.3% explanatory power in current life. Effect of prefrontal cognitive function in accordance with the partner showed a 16.1% explanatory power This study suggests the necessity of policy and program development for the elderly community life to improve self - integration and frontal cognitive function in old age.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.97-113
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• 2009

Objectives: This study was conducted to identify the intervention effects on health efficacy and health knowledge related to health behaviors for improving cardiovascular health in elementary school children. Methods: A repeated measure, pre-post-test design was used to identify the intervention effect on health efficacy and health knowledge among 5th grade school children. Intervention consisted of a curriculum classroom intervention and parent intervention. Health efficacy, health knowledge, and perceived parental monitoring were measured for testing intervention effect. A sample of 219 participants completed a baseline pre-test and two tests during intervention and after intervention from March to July 2004. Results: Mental health efficacy improved significantly from baseline test to the test after intervention (F = 32.88, p < 0.0001). Physical health efficacy also significantly increased during intervention (F = 50.51, p < 0.0001), but did not significantly change after parent intervention. Health knowledge increased significantly from baseline test to the test after education (F =10.23, p < 0.0001), but decreased after parent intervention. Perceived parental monitoring had a significant impact on mental health efficacy and physical health efficacy. Conclusion: The findings support school-based cardiovascular health promotion intervention as effective in improving health efficacy and health knowledge. Parental influence should also be considered to maintain improved health efficacy and health knowledge by thinking process in the intervention for elementary school children.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.527-533
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to compare the self-esteem and professionalism of dental hygiene students according to an educational system(three-year course and four-year course). The subjects in this study were 579 dental hygiene students in Chungcheong Province, on whom a survey was conducted. The findings of the study were as follows: The result on self-esteem and professionalism rate according to their satisfaction level towards the course shows that self-esteem of those who answered "satisfied" 3.02 in three-year-course, and 2.96 in four-year-course(p<.05), while professionalism rate of those who answered "satisfied" reach 2.97 in three-year-course and 2.93 in four-year-course(p<.05). As to self-esteem by motivation of choosing the department, the students who chose the department in hopes of being well paid had the best self-esteem both in the three-year-course colleges(3.18) and four-year-course universities(3.02). In terms of professionalism, those who chose the department in consideration three-year-course colleges, and the students who wanted to get a lifelong job(3.29) were most excellent in the four-year-course universities(p<.01).

• Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.101-128
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• 2017

This study proposed an educational program using presidential records to develop the self-esteem of children from multi-cultural families in accordance with the vision of the Presidential Archives-including political, economic, historical, and cultural aspects-to activate programs for the underprivileged. To accomplish this, we performed a literature review of self-esteem-enhancing programs for such children, and compared and analyzed the Presidential Archives' educational programs of the United States and Korea. We also conducted a survey and interviewed teachers who have experienced teaching children from multi-cultural families. Through the process, this study proposed an educational program for such children to develop their self-esteem.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.274-283
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• 2012

This study investigates the relationship between self-esteem and mental health of college students. The data collected is to be utilized to promote effect methods of education and consultation that will improve the self-esteem and mental health of college students. There were a total of 468 questionnaires were distributed and collected from 2 universities and 3 community colleges between October 2nd and December 2nd 2010. The results of data analysis were as follows: First, there were no significant differences in the relationships between general characteristics and the perceptual self, the evaluative self, and self-esteem. Second, there were significant differences in the relationship between general characteristics and mental health according to economic situation, the year of entering college, satisfaction with your department, relationship with fellow classmates, and health status with regards to low mental health. Third, there was a partial correlation between perceptual self, evaluative self, and self-esteem. Perceptual self, evaluative self, and self-esteem were inversely related to obsessive compulsiveness, hostility, interpersonal sensitivity, physical, anxiety, delusional disorder, and psychosis. In conclusion, the results of this study would be used as the foundation for improving the self-esteem of college students and easing mental health with the development and implementation of a formal education program. It is also recognized that follow studies should be conducted to understand additional effects.