• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.81-87
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to determine influential factors for health behavior of elderly people living alone in an urban area. The subjects were 203 selected senior citizens who were living alone in a city. The findings were as follows: The subjects got a mean of 2.89 in self-rated health status, which was lower than the medium score 3. They got a mean of 2.64 in self-efficacy; 3.87 in social support and 3.14 in health behavior. These scores were higher than the medium score. The factors that affected the health behavior of the elderly people were self-efficacy, social support, self-rated health status, economic state, religion and gender. These factors had a 43% explainability of the health behavior of the urban senior citizens living alone. The findings are expected to make a contribution to the development of health care programs geared toward urban elderly people living alone.

• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.140-141
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• 1990

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.443-451
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• 2017

The purpose of this research is to examine ways to improve the quality of life of elderly people living alone in urban areas by identifying their stress, social support, and quality of life as well as analyzing the relationships between these factors. In this research, a questionnaire survey was conducted for approximately two weeks including 232 elderly people aged 65 years and above who were using 10 senior welfare centers in the Seoul and Gyeonggi regions. The results of the analysis based on the collected data showed that of the stresses experienced by elderly people living alone in urban areas, the stresses of health, family, and psychological and social stresses had negative effects on social support and quality of life. Also, it was found that the social support of elderly people living alone had positive effects on the quality of life. Additionally, it was found that social support had a mediating effect in the relationship between stress and quality of life of elderly people living alone in urban areas. In other words, social support plays a buffer role in enhancing the quality of life regarding health, family, economy, and psychological and social stresses. This research has significant implications in that it was conducted on elderly people living alone, since elderly people living alone are not only under more stressful circumstances in a vulnerable environment than other seniors but also their quality of life is much lower. The implications of this research are that, from a social point of view, these elderly people living alone should no longer be neglected and that differentiated policy interventions for elderly people living alone is required.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.233-256
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of social support on career maturity and self-reliance of inmates in a juvenile reformatory. This survey was administered to the adolescents in S juvenile reformatory, which represents juvenile reformatory across the nation. Statistical analysis were performed using SPSS 22.0 for 115 complete responses. Results are as follows: First, the effects of social support on career maturity was found to be statistically significant, $R^2=.411$, p<.001. That is, support by friends and religious program personnel remained a significant influence on career maturity, after controlling for sociodemographic variables. Second, the effects of social support on self-reliance was also found to be statistically significant, $R^2=.520$, p<.001. It was shown that the support of friends and family as dependent variables, had statistically significant effects on self-reliance. The results of this study suggest the need to expand programs that reinforce support by friends, a meaningful variable, along with the need to seek and link available resources within the local community in order to build social support systems. It is also necessary to establish education and related organizations to provide effective socail support.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.71-90
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• 2017

This study aimed to investigate structural relationships of social support between job satisfactions and educare teacher's vocational calling. This study conducted a questionnaire survey on 270 educare teachers in Chungcheong area (Daejeon and Chungnam). The survey was conducted from July 1, 2017 to August 14, 2017. And it used 257 responses(95.1%) for analysis data except 14 responses due to their unfaithful or unreliable replies. Research results of analysis were as below. First, direct effect of vocational calling on social support was statistically significant. Second, it showed that both vocational calling and social support had positive effect. Third, it was found that vocational calling had significant influence on job satisfaction through social support. In conclusion, it was known that job satisfaction became higher if vocational calling of educare teachers received social support. It is required to systematically establish social and psychological support system raising vocational calling of educare teachers.

• Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.180-186
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of college adjustment and social support on career development for college students majoring in health or social welfare. For this purpose, a survey was conducted in the Gyeongsangnam-do area. There was a total of 203 study participants. Data were collected with a set of questionnaires and analyzed by a multiple regression analysis. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the mean of main variables are as follow; career development was 3.54, college adjustment was 3.07, social support was 3.59. Second, by using a multiple regression, college adjustment and social support had a positive effect on career development. In other words, higher the college adjustment and higher the social support, the higher the career development. Third, academic adjustment among the sub-areas of college adjustment and friend support among the sub-areas of social support had a significant effect on career development level. Based on these results, implications for research and practice were discussed.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.37
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• pp.241-269
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• 1999

This study investigated the relationship between social support and the well-being among the unemployed. Special attention was given to the empirical tests of the main effect and the stress buffering effect of social support on the psychosocial well-being and the practical implications in developing service strategies for the unemployed. Three-hundred-Sixty-nine(369) unemployed people in Choong-ju City and surrounding areas participated to the study. The results showed that both main and direct effects were partially supported by the data. In exploring the direct effect, social support from the family showed the strongest positive effect on the well-being of the unemployed. In the test of the stress buffering effect, the results showed a marginal buffering role of social support against the negative impacts of stress. Drawn from the results, the needs for further research in investigating the social support theory were suggested and possible implications for developing social work intervention strategies for the unemployed were identified.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.675-682
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• 2017

This study used the fifth additional data of the panel research on security for the aged conducted by National Pension Research Institute in 2014, and studied the level of satisfaction about life targeting 7,763 middle- and old-aged people in their 50s or older. Social support, one of the influential factors on satisfaction about life, had a positive impact on satisfaction about life, and material support and emotional support were found to have a big influence.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.144-151
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• 2000

Purpose : This investigation was to identify the relationship of social support, stress, health and quality of life in caregivers of home-stay cancer patient. Method : We used a questionnaire and obtained data from the records of 79 caregivers of home-stay cancer patient in a community. Window SPSS-PC was used for the data analysis and the statistical method used were the t-test, ANOVA and Pearson's correlation coefficient. Result : The mean score of family support(3.24) was higher than nurse's support(3.03). The mean score of stress was 3.52 and that of health status was 2.98. The mean score of quality of life was 2.34. The health status of caregivers of cancer patient was influence by age(F=3.17, p=0.018) and education(F=3.59, p=0.032). There was a correlation between nurse's support and family support(r=.263, p<0.05). There was a correlation between stress and health status(r=0.597, p<0.01). The quality of life was correlated with stress(r=-.678, p<0.01) and health status(r=-0.741, p<0.01). Conclusion : The above result indicate that we must consider of social support, stress and health status to promote of quality of life of the caregiver of cancer patient.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.357-364
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• 2014

The aim of the study was to identify the effects of a social-support-based walking program for residents in rural areas. Data were collected from 120 residents who are residential in Chungcheongnam-do and participated in walking program at community health centers from March and September 2013. Collected data included body mass index, body fat mass, and skeletal muscle mass and physical Activity. The data were analyzed using a paired t-test with SPSS19.0. This study showed that a 7-month walking program had positive effects on the physical health index, representing reductions in the body mass index(t=-12.418, p<.001), body fat mass indes(t=13.031, p<.001) and an improvement in the skeletal muscle mass(t=-12.642, p<.001). Health behavior index; dietary practice guideline score(t= -4.324, p<.001), physical activity day(t=-8.715, p<.001), high risk drinking day(t=6.298, p<.001) were improved through walking program. These results indicated that the walking program for the community was effective in improving the health status of the participants. Therefore, I suggest that the development and running of various social-support-based walking program be required by applying the results.