• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.215-220
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• 2015

This study attempts to find how the government policies regarding population aging may affect the life patterns of the baby boomers and what factors play a significant role in providing life wellness. This study uses the data provided by Korea Welfare Panel Study published between the years 2006 and 2011. First, according to the analysis of the data from Korea Welfare Panel Study in the year 2006, the factors affecting the life wellness are family relations, health and social relations. However, between the years 2007 and 2009, the major factor is not the present income providing security or life satisfaction. Second, the next significant factor in improving the wellness of life is family relations after health or occupation. Therefore, the government should provide them with re-employment programs prior to their retirement through which baby boomers can find employment similar or different to their present occupations. For improving the wellness of life, the most significant factor is family relations.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.565-574
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• 2014

The authors examined the life of university students in Korea. Overall, the life illustrated by Korean university students was grouped into four themes as follows: 'never experienced critical thinking, don't have enough time to critically think,' 'looking for decisions and conclusions by someone else,' 'just doing my job although I don't want,' and 'I don't know what I am supposed to do for my own life.' Since participants of this current study spent their adolescence under the standardized education as well as the regulated direction, they did not experienced their proper independent life. Given the fact that Korean university students had troubled with their life transition into adulthood, more efforts are needed to change the social perceptions toward university students and to develop the appropriate action derived by colleges/universities in order to guide university students' healthy transition into adulthood.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.585-595
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to examine the Baby Boom Generation's participation intention for and needs on the elderly education. The survey research was conducted with the 261 participants who were born in 1955 through 1974 years. The results of this study are as follows : First, 67.4% of the respondents have not experienced life-long education because the respondents have no time to learn. Second, the positive agreement of the participation intention is 64.3% because the elderly people want to cope with the social changes themselves. Third, the respondents want to have the need for the elderly education by taking a class about health education with the method of practical training in a welfare organization. In conclusion, as showed the survey research, the elderly have highly participation intention about elderly education, so this study indicates that the high quality programs of elderly education should develop and provide.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.513-526
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine internet addiction and maladaptation among soldiers and to ascertain how family function mediated among army soldiers. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 313 soldiers currently serving military service and was analysed using the structural equation model. The results were summarized as follows: Internet addiction had a direct effect on military adjustment and family function mediated military adjustment. Moreover, internet addiction had an indirect effect through family function, family function had a partial mediate effect on the relationship between internet addiction and military adjustment among army soldiers. Based on the findings, this study discussed the need to develop preventive and therapeutic programs to enhance army soldiers military adjustment.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.563-570
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between caregivng stress and depression of the caregiver. The data was collected through by a survey on to married adults who are responsible for the care of old parents. The survey(by purposive sampling) was conducted over the course of for the three months duration from Jan. to Feb. 2014. A total of Finally, 307 copies of the questionnaire retrieved were used for analysis. First, in the case of women, those in their 50s or over, and in the all both gender cases, those who live in rural area, and those who perceive their economic levels as 'low' tend to have higher caregivng stress than other kinds of groups. Second, those who do not have spouses, and those who perceive their economic levels as 'low' tend to have higher depression than other kinds of groups, and those who hold the whole responsibility of caring old parents had a severe high depression. Third, it was found that the greater higher the caregivng stress of caregivers get, the more serious higher their stresses become get.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.279-287
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• 2016

This study aims to examine the effect of family conflict, social support, and self-esteem on alife satisfaction of the aged. For the study, the subjects(n=296) obtained from the Korea Welfare Panel Survey were analyzed by utilizing the correlation analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. The results founded from data analysis are as follows: First, while family conflict influenced negatively life satisfaction of the aged, social support and self-esteem had a positive effect on it. Second, self-esteem was shown to have the highest effect among other independent variables on life satisfaction of the aged. The results showed that family conflict, social support and self-esteem were the important factors which played the significant role in the change of life satisfaction of the aged. On the basis of the findings, the need and policy support to enhance social support/self-esteem and to weaken family conflict were suggested.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.427-434
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• 2021

This paper aimed to reveal the needs and intentions of the people with developmental disabilities through AAC for supporting their independent living in the community and furthermore to contribute to realizing an inclusive community. From August 7 to September 11, 2020, trained researchers conducted 1to1 interviews(AAC) with 74 people recommended by specialized institutions. Data were analyzed by frequency-analysis, Chi-square-analysis and T-test using SPSS 25.0. As a result, the creation of community-level conditions(ex. housing and employment) and job aptitudes and preferences are important for the independent living and expectations and desires for social participation were high. It is different from the previous survey results through agents. It means the policy for the developmentally disabled should be based on their needs and aim for 'living in the community as a community member'. Based on these results, the implications of supporting decision-making for the ordinary lives of people with developmental disabilities were suggested.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.605-611
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• 2018

This study examines the effects of recovery-oriented practices on psychiatric symptoms of people with mental disorder and further explores the impact of recovery-oriented practices in each subcategories on psychiatric symptoms, thereby demonstrating the intent of restoring the community mental health rehabilitation center. For this, a survey was conducted on 378 people with mental disorder who used community mental health rehabilitation center and correlation and hierarchical regression analysis were conducted. The study found that among the five subcategories of recovery, including age and duration of illness, 'Life Goal,' 'Involvement,' and 'diversity of treatment options' alleviate symptoms of people with mental disorder. Based on these findings, community mental health rehabilitation center has presented the combined significance of psychiatry and social welfare programs to facilitate the recovery of the mentally handicapped by reflecting the value and factors of recovery-oriented practice.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.535-542
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• 2018

This study aimed to analyse the relationship between the parenting stress and the awareness of school parents' child abuse. This study also examined the mediating effect of school parents' self-esteem between the parenting stress and the awareness of child abuse. Data were collected from 389 school parents residing A city of Gyeonggi-do. The results of analysing as follows : 1) the variable of the parenting stress of school parents had negative statistic association with the awareness of child abuse. 2) the self-esteem of school parents was found to mediate between the parenting stress and the awareness of child abuse. Based on these study results, several suggestions were made to improve the awareness of school parents' child abuse in terms of the reduction of their parenting stress and the enhancement of their self-esteem. This study has the significance of the convergence approach in terms of pedagogy, psychology, social welfare.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.365-379
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate what factors affect cyber-delinquency after examining the previous research focusing on the general strain theory and the delinquency opportunity theory in the existing studies. And as adolescents move from middle school to high school, this study is intended to analyze what factors affect cyber-delinquency from a longitudinal perspective using KCYPS(Korea Child and Youth Panel Survey) elementary 4th grade fourth and seventh data. The adolescence cyber-delinquency probability of occurrence were analyzed through the panel logit fixed-effect model using STATA. And then the cyber-delinquency frequency of adolescents were analyzed through the panel tobit random-effect model. As a result of analyzing the factors affecting cyber-delinquency frequency, Adult media commitment, computer use time, and cell phone dependency increased cyber-delinquency frequency. On the other hand, among the parenting attitudes, the attitude of supervising attentively and adolescents' age-increasing decreased cyber-delinquency frequency.