• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.75-83
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between peer victimization by peers, bullying, and friendships, with a focus on friendship network, friendship quality, and friends' characteristics. The subjects were 678 fifth and sixth grade primary school children recruited from a public school in Bucheon city. The peer nomination index was used to assess peer victimization, bullying, and friendship network. In addition, children themselves reported on the quality of their friendships using the Friendship Quality Scale. The results showed that victimization by peers was influenced by friendship network size, support, and victimization of friends, whereas bullying was explained by support and the bullying behaviors of friends.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.119-144
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• 2010

This study advances the knowledge of developmental patterns in affiliation with delinquent peers and delinquency during adolescence; data were obtained from waves 1-5 (2003-2007) of the Korea Youth Panel Survey. Semi-parametric group-based modeling (SGM) identified 3 affiliative trajectories of delinquent peers from age 13 to 16: rarely or never, persistently affiliative, and declining groups; and five developmental trajectories of delinquency: non-offending, late onset, low-level continuous, desisting, and chronic groups. A joint trajectory analysis predicted the membership of delinquency trajectories conditional on delinquent peer trajectories. Persistently affiliative group was more likely than others to follow chronic trajectory of delinquency; the rarely or never affiliative group was more likely to be non-offending. This study may help reconcile different theoretical models such as influence, selection, and enhancement models with respect to the role of delinquent peers in delinquency. The distinct theoretical models are equally valid, albeit each model pertains to a specific aspect of longitudinal patterns of affiliation with delinquent peers. Implications of this study for youth welfare were discussed to reduce increased risks for both affiliation with delinquent peers and delinquency.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.380-390
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• 2022

This research is to find out what kinds of function imaginary companions do to the characters in a picture book featuring imaginary companions. To this end, a total of 26 picture books featuring imaginary companions published in Korea were analyzed using content analysis to assess the function of imaginary companions in the relationship between the main character and imaginary companions. As a result of the study, the imaginary companions were found to play the function of playmates (77%), care givers and/or advisers (42%), companions (42%), other egos (38%), those who get wish realized (23%), those who sharing emotion (23%), and emotion controllers (19%). In the picture book, the imaginary companion was performing various functions according to the situation and needs of the characters. Mostly two to three (2~3) kinds of functions were performed in the each analyzed picture book, and as a result of analyzing trends out of 26 picture books, it showed that there are three types of trends in relationship, which was horizontal, vertical and other egos. The imginary companions depicted in the picture books were not only being who helps realize whishes, take care of main characters, and control their emotions, but also appeared to share hearts, project other ego and be a good friend with an equal level of relationship that plays together always.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.47-73
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationships that a popular three year old child has with other children and teacher. One popular child was selected among thirteen children using peer-nomination method and participated in this study. During free choice play time, the popular child's various activities and interaction patterns were observed and analyzed. The popular child in this study had a steady intimate friendship with his best friend most of the time. However, he showed a tendency to behave as he pleased and give orders to other children who he was not in a close relationship with. He did some deliberate and premeditated acts to get praise and love from his teacher. The teacher's compensations also reinforced his intentional actions.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.5-33
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• 2017

This study explored challenges and desires related to social relationships among adolescents with intellectual disabilities, using the photovoice method. Six adolescents with intellectual disabilities (M = 18.33 years) who are attending a general high school participated in 7 sessions of a photovoice program. They selected themes related to social relationships through group discussions and shared their photos related to the themes with other participants. Our study yielded 15 subthemes within 5 social relationships (peers, teachers, boyfriends/girlfriends, parents, persons whom I need) from adolescents with intellectual disabilities as follows: relationships with peers (feeling lonely and left out, being teased and bullied by peers, making efforts to fix damaged relationships with friends), relationships with teachers (feeling appreciated by teachers who understand me, lacking interactions with teachers, wanting teachers to show they care about my school life), relationships with boyfriends/girlfriends (wanting to have a boyfriend/girlfriend, feeling worried and fearful about having a boyfriend/girlfriend, trying to attract a boyfriend/girlfriend), relationships with parents (being thankful to parents for their unconditioned love, enjoying time with parents, feeling bad because of not being close to father), persons whom I need (persons who enjoy spending time with me, persons who help me, persons who never give up on me). This study provides implications for social work practice, such as training for improving peer relationships and coping with peer conflict, education for fostering healthy romantic relationships, training for promoting social skills of adolescents with intellectual disabilities, and education for increasing awareness of the social needs of students with intellectual disabilities among peers without disabilities, teachers, and social workers.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.1-11
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• 2003

본 연구의 목적은 부모가 정한 규칙에 대한 청소년의 준수 의무감 정도에 따라 청소년이 문제행동 (음주와 타인 소유물 파손행동)을 하는 친구의 영향을 받는 정도에 차이가 있는지 알아보는 것이었다. 우선. 친구의 문제행동 정도에 따라 청소년의 문제행동 가능성이 높아지는지 살펴보았다. 다음으로, 친구의 문제행동과 청소년의 문제행동 간의 관계가 부모가 정한 규칙을 지켜야 한다고 믿는 정도에 따라 다른지 살펴보았다. 연구 대상은 미국 동부 지역 소도시 소재 중학교에 재학 중인 남녀 중학생(6학년 ∼8학년) 398명이었다. 자료는 참여 학생들이 부모 자녀 관계, 문제 행동, 친구 관계 등에 관한 항목으로 구성된 질문지에 응답하게 하여 수집하였다. 위계적 회귀분석을 사용한 자료분석 결과. 친구의 문제행동 정도가 심할수록, 부모가 정한 규칙에 대한 준수 의무감이 약할수록 청소년의 문제행동 정도가 심한 것으로 나타났다. 그러나. 친구의 문제행동과 청소년의 문제행동 사이의 정적 관계는 청소년이 부모가 정한 규칙을 준수해야 한다는 의무감이 약할수록 약한 것으로 나타났다. 이 연구의 결과는 청소년기 또래 영향 연구에서 청소년의 개인적인 특성을 고려하는 것이 중요하다는 것을 시사한다. 또한, 청소년이 부모가 정한 규칙을 지켜야 한다는 의무감을 갖도록 부모가 자녀와 원만한 관계를 유지하는 것이 부정적인 친구의 영향으로부터 청소년을 보호하는 한 방법이 된다는 점도 시사한다.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.149-166
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• 2001

This study examined differences in function, structure, and satisfaction of adolescent friendships by differing patterns of internet usage and of real life versus internet friendships. Subjects were 396 male and female 10th grade students. Data were collected with structured questionnaires and analyzed by SPSS. Findings were that the internet functioned as a major field of interpersonal relationships for Korean adolescents. Among 3 types of internet usage patterns, pursuit of interpersonal relationship, constituted most of the functioning and the most intimate friendships and game pleasure had the fewest and least intimate friendships both in real life and on the internet. Subjects addicted to the internet had the most functioning friendships and the highest level of intimacy in friendships. As the level of internet addiction increased, the level of satisfaction in friendships in real life decreased while the level of satisfaction of friendships through the internet increased.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.297-305
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to examine resilience and empathy on the relation between humanity and friendship of the early adolescents using structural equation modeling. The subjects were total 332 students of the 5th and 6th grade in elementary school and 1st and 2nd grade in junior school. The data were collected by means of the self-report questionnaire. The results of this study were as follows: Firstly, the direct effect of humanity on resilience, empathy, and friendship was found. Resilience also influence friendship directly, but empathy did not affect friendship. Secondly, humanity had influence on friendship partially mediated by resilience, but not mediated by empathy. This result shows that resilience was better mediated between humanity and friendship than empathy. Additionally, sex differences were found on empathy, but the differences were not found on resilience. The results revealed that the adolescents who scored high on humanity were better at friendship and when the higher humanity score was, the higher level of resilience was found, and this had an indirect effect on friendship quality.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.487-508
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to compare relationship with friends among adolescents under probation and high school students without any criminal record. A total of 510 respondents (253 adolescents under probation, 257 high school students) participated in this study. Results indicate that both adolescents under probation and high school students reported that they talk to talked to their friends when they were lonely, that they were comfortable when they are with their friends, and that they trusted their friends unconditionally. However, the two groups showed a difference in the place that they meet their friends. Adolescents under probation are likely to meet their friends at Internet Cafe to play internet games, while high school students are likely to meet their friends near their school. Compared to high school students, adolescents under probation had more friends who were expelled from school, who were under probation and who have been previously incarcerated. For adolescents under probation, compared to first time offenders, the repeat offenders were more likely to have friends who were under probation and who have been previously incarcerated. When discriminant analysis were conducted for adolescents under probation and high school students, the two groups can be distinguished by the number of friends expelled from school, number of friends under probation, and number of friends who have been previously incarcerated. For adolescents under probation, compared to first time offenders, the repeat offenders could be distinguished by the number of friends expelled from school, number of friends under probation, number friends who have been previously incarcerated, and number of times their partners in crime were under probation or incarcerated.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.449-459
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• 2015

This study examined the associations among self-disclosure tendency, self-activities and friends' responses on Facebook, and perceived usefulness of Facebook in social networking. Sex differences were also examined. Results showed that participants' self-disclosure tendency was positively related to their activities in Facebook, which were strongly related to friends-activities. Self- and friends-activities significantly increased usefulness in social networking. Regarding sex differences, the relationships between self-disclosure tendency and self-activities and between self-activities and usefulness were stronger for men, while the relationship between friends-activities and usefulness was stronger for women. These results suggest women tend to value friends' responses more in assessing relational qualities than men in Facebook contexts.