• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.357-360
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• 2009

It is hypothesized that a number of environmental factors affect animals' behavior. Without controlling these variables, it is very hard for researchers to get not only reliable, but replicable data from various behavioral experiments testing animals' cognitive as well as emotional functions. For example, laboratory mice which had restricted environment showed different synaptic potentiation properties with wild mice (Zhao MG et al., 2009). While performing behavioral experiments, however, it is sometimes inevitable that the researcher changes the animals' environments, as by switching the cages in which experimental animals are housed and separating animals raised together into small experimental groups. In this study, we investigated the effect of environmental changes on mice's emotional behaviors by socially isolating them or reducing the size of their cage. We found that social isolation selectively increases the animals' levels of anxiety, while leaving depression-like behaviors unchanged. On the other hand, alteration of the housing dimensions affected neither their anxiety levels nor their depression-like behaviors. These results suggest that environmental variables may have a prominent impact on experimental animals' emotional behaviors and possibly their psychological states, leading to bias in the behavioral data produced from experiments.

• Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.25-46
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• 2019

This pilot study involved a single session of song-based music therapy to relieve the anxiety of intensive care unit (ICU) caregivers. Six caregivers of ICU patients participated in the intervention session individually. During the initial stage of the intervention, the participants' current emotional states were identified. Then they listened to familiar songs and playing a tone chime, which was intended to help them relax their body and reduce their psychological resistance. During singing experiences as an essential part of the intervention, the participants discussed the lyrics of songs in an attempt to find the meaning related to them. Also, they sang the songs with a live accompaniment in which their emotional states were reflected with changes in musical elements (e.g., tempo, dynamics, rhythm, or chords). In the final stage, they identified personal application to their everyday lives. To analyze the results, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and a visual analog scale on emotional states were completed by participants before and after the session, and participants' verbal responses during the session were also recorded. According to the results, STAI anxiety scores significantly declined following the session. Also, they showed significant increases in positive emotions and significant decreases in negative emotions. This suggests that short-term music therapy can be an effective intervention for relieving the psychological distress of ICU caregivers.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.36-46
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• 2015

This study verified theoretical model to explain adolescents' addictive use of smartphone. I used the data of 679 middle and high school students among 2013 internet addiction survey of National Information Society Agency(NIA). This study utilized structural equation modeling analysis to compare a suggestive model and alternative model. According to the final model, higher the satisfaction of family relationship, the addictive use of smartphone and emotional problems of adolescents were reduced. And, higher the addictive use of smartphone, higher the emotional problems of adolescents. Also, family relationship affects emotional problems via addictive use of smartphone. While, in the alternative model, path from amount of smartphone use to addictive use of smartphone was not significant. Results of this study suggest that family relationship variable may play an antecedent factor of addictive use of smartphone and emotional problems of adolescents and control of smartphone use is important to keeping a mental health of adolescents.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.70-75
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• 2020

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship among emotional eating behavior, tendency to eat palatable foods, and several risk factors. SUBJECTS/METHODS: This study was carried out on 2,434 persons (1,736 women and 698 men) aged between 19 and 64 years. A questionnaire form was used as a data collection tool, which consisted of items for the socio-demographic characteristics, anthropometric measurements, Emotional Appetite Questionnaire (EMAQ), and the Palatable Eating Motives Scale (PEMS). RESULTS: A positive significant correlation was observed between the BMI groups and the negative emotions, negative situations, and negative total scores of EMAQ (P < 0.01). The regression results on negative subscales showed that a one unit increase in BMI resulted in a 0.293 unit increase in negative situations scores, a 0.626 unit increase in negative emotions scores, and a 0.919 unit increase in negative total EMAQ scores. When the BMI groups and PEMS subscale scores were examined, a significant relationship was found in the social motives, rewarding, and conformity subscales (P < 0.01). A one unit increase in BMI increased the coping motives scores by 0.077 units. CONCLUSION: The emotional states have a significant effect on the eating behavior. On the other hand, an increase in eating attacks was observed, particularly in people who were under the effect of a negative emotion or situation. Nevertheless, there were some limitations of the study in terms of quantitative determination of the effects of this eating behavior depending on the BMI.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.107-116
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• 2018

This is a descriptive research conducted on 143 junior nursing students using PANAS to get basic data for intervention program checking emotional state before child nursing practicum. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 19.0, the positive affects were significantly higher in males than in females but the negative affects were reversed. Multiple regression analysis to identify factors affecting positive and negative affects showed the negative affects were influenced by sex, while the positive ones were by satisfaction in major, personality type, motive of admission, and types of hospital. The explanatory rate of these variables on the positive and negative affects were 22.8% and 7.8%, respectively. Emotional intervention program before child nursing practicum is necessary through implementing qualitative researches identifying the causes of negative affects before child nursing practicum of nursing students. Also, it is recommended the experimental studies comparing emotional states before and after child nursing practicum and other subjects'.

• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.20
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• pp.29-66
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• 2010

This paper is a qualitative study of the experiences of Korean heritage language learners (KHLLs) with literacy (reading and writing), particularly before they enter the college-level heritage language classroom. Previous research, both qualitative and quantitative, has addressed the overall language background of KHLLs, including oral and aural proficiency and writing and reading ability, as well as demographic information (such as when the student immigrated to the United States) in relation to language test scores. This study addresses KHLL experiences in the following six areas as they relate to student perceptions and attitudes toward their own heritage language literacy: language proficiency, motivation for learning, academic preparedness, cultural connectedness, emotional factors, and social factors. Fourteen undergraduate students at a university in the western United States participated in a convenience sample by responding to a 10-question survey. Trends in responses indicated that KHLLs entered the classroom with high integrational motivation and experienced great satisfaction with perceived progress in literacy, but students also expressed regret for having missed childhood learning experiences that would likely have resulted in higher proficiency. These experiences include informal and formal instruction in the home and formal instruction outside of the home.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.121-157
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• 2024

This study explored the essence of psychological burnout experiences due to emotional contagion using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. In-depth interviews were conducted on 9 participants who work in fields that are subject to emotional contagion. Data analysis was conducted by using van Manen's methodology, insisting that the pure description of an experience can be enriched by adding interpretation. The emotional contagion experiences were identified through this process and the findings were categorized into 3 core themes, 8 essential themes, and 35 subthemes. The first core theme is "emotions in constant exchange". This theme included two essential themes: 'various channels of emotional contagion' and 'subjective states that change depending on the transmitted emotions'. The second core theme, "filtering the experience of emotional contagion" included the essential themes of 'the characteristics susceptible to the emotions of others', 'attitudes of spreading negative emotions' and 'situations that makes one feel overwhelmed by emotions'. The final core theme, "from burnout by emotional contagion to communication" was categorized into the following essential themes: 'burnout-inducing entangled interactions', 'moving toward communication and connection' and 'recovery after psychological burnout'. Finally, the implications and suggestions for future research were discussed by summarizing the core contents of each themes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.127-129
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• 2001

입력된 문장을 분석하여 미리 정해진 범주에 따라 그 문장의 감정 상태의 천이를 출력해 주는 감정인식 시스템을 제안한다. Naive Bayes 알고리즘을 사용했던 이전 방법과 달리 새로 연구된 시스템은 Hidden Markov Model(HMM)을 사용한다. HMM은 특정 분포로 발생하는 현상에서 그 현상의 원인이 되는 상태의 천이를 찾아내는데 적합한 방법으로서, 하나의 문장에 여러 가지 감정이 표현된다는 가정 하에 감정인식에 관한 이상적인 알고리즘이라 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 HMM을 사용한 감정인식 시스템에 관한 개요를 설명하고 이전 버전에 비해 보다 향상된 실험결과를 보여준다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.52.5-52
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• 2002

In this paper, we develop analysis models for classification of temporal data from human subjects. The study focuses on the analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals obtained during various emotional states. We demonstrate a generally applicable method of removing EOG and EMG artifacts from EEGs based on independent component analysis (ICA). All EEG channel maps were interpolated from 10 EEG subbands. ICA methods are based on the assumptions that the signals recorded on the scalp are mixtures of signals from independent cerebral and artifactual sources, that potentials arising from different parts of the brain, scalp and body are summed linearly at the electrodes and that prop...

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.98-101
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• 1997

사람 사이의 가장 간단한 의사 표현인 긍정/부정을 뇌파를 통해 분별하려는 작업의 첫걸음으로 시각자극에 의해 일어난 긍정/부정 감성 상태에 대해 전두부와 후두부에서 뇌파를 측정하였다. 시간-주파수 분석을 행하고, 특정 주파수 세부 대역에서 상대출력의 시간에 따른 변화를 살펴보았다. 긍정적 감성상태에서는 느린 a 파의 증가가, 부정적 감성상태에서는 빠른 a파일의 증가가 관찰된다. 이러한 상대출력의 시간에 따른 증감을 통해 긍정/부정 감성상태의 분별 규칙을 설정하여 측정된 뇌파에 적용을 보았다.