• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.45-51
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• 2018

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of family related factors (mothers' self-esteem, mothers' parenting stress, mothers' marital satisfaction, fathers' parenting involvement, and social support) on mothers' postpartum depression. The subjects were 797 households that were extracted from the $1^{st}$ wave of the Panel Study of Korean Children (PSKC). The study variables were measured using the survey questionnaires, and analyses of Pearson's correlation and multiple regression were conducted. Results showed that family related factors significantly predicted mothers' postpartum depression. Moreover, the most significant predictor was mothers' parenting stress, followed by marital satisfaction, self-esteem, fathers' parenting involvement, and social support. Study findings indicate that mothers' postpartum depression is attributed to not only personal but also family related factors. Our results suggest importance of parent education and family support along with social support.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.1-20
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• 1983

The purpose of this study is to analyze the planning dimensions according to homemaker's age and education. In this study the dimensions of planning are participation, time span , significance, specifity and flexibly. The subject areas of planning are family economy, household activities, child rearing and purchasing. Questionnaires were given to the selected 181 homemakers living in Seoul and Incheon. Data were analyzed by frequency, percent, x2 -test, F-test. The result are as follows: 1) There are significant differences in planning dimensions according to homemaker's age and education in some subject areas. 2)The younger the homemaker is and the higher her educational level is, the more cooperatively the couple plan in family life. 3)The family of which homemaker is younger and more educational tends to plan significantly, specifically and flexibly in family life.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.69-80
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation among family strength and self-efficacy. This subjects were the 576 middle school students living in Gwangju. Data were analyzed with SPSS 20.0 program. The major findings were as follows; First, middle school students' family strength scores were higher than median(3.00). Family respect and affection scores were highest and communication and family bonding scores were lowest. Also, self-efficacy scores were higher than median(3.00). Second, family strength and the self-efficacy showed significant correlation. Third, the male middle school students' self-efficacy was influenced by Family respect and affection. And the male middle school students' self-efficacy was explained about 29% by this variable. The Female middle school students' self-efficacy was influenced by Family respect and affection and Financial stability. And the female middle school students' self-efficacy was explained about 32% by these variables.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.189-218
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• 1992

The purpose of this study is to measure family stress, family resources, copying strategies and the types of family system. For this purpose, the data were collected from healthy families(231) and clinic families(103). The main results are as follows: 1. Partially family stress, family resources, copying strategies was different by the demographic chrateristics(age, yeares of marriage, job, education, family life cycle family income religion and types of family system). 2. The type of family system was meaning factor for the family stress study. 3. In the case of healthy family, family stress was negative related with family resources, but healthy families used copying strategies variously. 4. In the case of clinic family, family stress was related with family resources and copying strateges strongly. 5. Classifying the types of family system, clinic families were classified extreme family(20.5%), midrange family(39.7%), balanced family(39.7%) and healthy family were classified extreme(13.1%), midrange family(25.8%) balanced family(61.1%).

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.95-110
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• 1997

This study is to find out whether the family life education can help the middle aged wives to resolve their problems and to keep their lives healthy. For this purpose self-administered questionnaires were used for 628 persons whose ages between 40 to 59 residing in the Metropolitan Area of Soul. Deta collected were analyzed by statistical methods such as the factor analysis frequency distribution percentile mean t-test chi-square Anova and Duncan's multiple range test through the SAS program package. Major results obtained are as follows; 1) The most demanding education content in the are of the spousal relationship was the helping program for the role change from parent-child relationship to spousal relationship. Employed wives demanded conflict resolution skill training program between parents and children while house wives showed the highest interest in guiding their children's future. 2) There are significant differences between employed wives and house wives in the areas f parent-child relationship communication and home managment of the need assessment. In detail employed wives showed higher interest in education the children more independent than house wives. Employed wives also showed higher interest than house wives in the education content about the factors for communication problems in the communication area. 3) About the application method in the family life education there was no significant difference between employed wives and house wives in terms of the necessity of the problem solving methods of follow-up meeting in the family life education while there was a significant difference in the past education program participation intention to participate in the future education program and the education setting between employed wives and house wives.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.43-56
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• 2022

This study attempts to analyze the mechanism of the academic engagement of middle schoolers participating in family education in Technology and Home Economics Education (T&HEE), their resilience, and their parent-child relationships. The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effect of resilience on the association between academic engagement and the parent-child relationship. The participants of the study were 194 middle schoolers in Sejong-si. The data were analyzed using PROCESS macro (Model 4), a method for verifying the mediating effect using bootstrapping. As a result of the study, first, there are significant positive correlations among academic engagement, resilience, and the parent-child relationship. Second, the result shows resilience as a complete mediating effect on the association between academic engagement and the parent-child relationship. These findings suggest the way to improve the relationship of adolescents with their parents is to enhance the middle school learners' resilience by actively participating in family education classes in T&HEE.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.41-57
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• 2016

This study aimed at developing a family life education program to assist North Korean defector adolescents in their acculturation and adjustment process into South Korea. The program focused on building positive social relationships and managing healthy living, to allow them to develop appropriate skills needed to achieve social self-sufficiency. Researchers conducted interviews with defector adolescents as well as teachers of charter schools for defector students in order to identify the adolescents' needs. The contents of the program were carefully chosen to reflect the needs identified through the interviews. The program provides hands-on projects that are relevant to students' lives and consists of 10 study units that deal with different aspects of family life: food and dietary life, appearance and clothing, housing and community life, family and personal relationships, consumption, etc. The program was implemented in September through December, 2015, at Yeomyung School, which is an alternative highschool for North Korean defector adolescents. The program is expected to help North Korean defector students adopt the skills by experience and apply them in their daily life situations.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.73-92
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• 1994

The purpose of this study is to investigate the need of home economics education on high School male students for purpose, the questions raised in this study are as follows. 1. Does home economics education on high school male students needs\ulcorner and are whether not or home economics education on high school male students need different according to sex, age, edu-cation, income, occupation\ulcorner 2. If home economics education on high school male students need or not. What is the reason of that\ulcorner and are the reason of that different according to sex, age, education, income, occupation\ulcorner 3. If home economics education on high school male students need, what is the contents of home economics education and are that different according to sex, age, education, income, occupation\ulcorner The subjects of the study consisted of 183 men and women in Ch’ong ju City(over 21 years old) The data were analiged by statistical procedures such as frequency, X(sup)2, oneway ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, Duncan’s Multiple Range Test. The major results of the study were summarized as follow: 1. The response rate on home economics education on high school male students was absolutely high(91.8%). of demographic variables, the only sex appeared the significant differences. the men groups responsed higher not to need than the women groups. 2. As the reasons of home economics educations on high School male students needing the respons of the highest response rate were that ‘as family community, family members understant, cooperated, and are responsible with each other or one anther’and that ‘as society becomes in-dustrial gradually, family members have to have the accurate perception, or attitudies on home life’of demographic variables, sex, income, and occupation appeard the significant differences. In the contrast of that, as the reaspon of home economics education on high school male stu-dents not needing, the reasons of the highest. response rate were that ‘as sex, the role is different’and that ‘home economics education needs not essentially to learn through the school education’. and there were not differences according to demographic variables. 3. As home economics education contents for high school mal students, the most need content part was child part. the second content part was family development and family relationships part. There was the significant differences according to all the demographic variables. Particulary, the lower the lever of education, in come and occupation were, the less the degree of need on all content part was.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.44 no.10
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• pp.21-34
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to define the roles of the central, district, and municipal Healthy Family Support Centers in order to establish their individual identities. Two hundred twenty-five 225 subjects were surveyed with a questionnaire about the role of each Healthy Family Support Center. The subjects of this study were professors, public officials and staff who were in charged of the Healthy Family Support Centers. This study revealed the following results. First, the central Healthy Family Support Center should playa supportive role to develop and propagate a variety of programs which can be used for the clients in the district and municipal Healthy Family Support Centers. Second, roles of the district Healthy Family Support Center are highly recognized not only for their supportive role in activating municipal Healthy Family Centers but also for their publicity role in them. Finally, the most necessary role of the municipal Healthy Family Support Center is to manage family counseling and family education. In order to accomplish the roles of each Healthy Family Support Center, the mutual relationship among central, district, and municipal Healthy Family Support Centers should be horizontal. Moreover, district Healthy Family Support Centers should be promptly established in order to enable for the central Center to play its roles properly.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.65-83
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influences of variables related to family and employment on work-family negative spillover. The subjects of this study were 570 dual-earner with children. The research tool was questionnaires. For data analysis, factor analysis, Cronbach ${\alpha}$, and multiple regression were performed. The main results of this study were as following. First, among variables related to family, spouse support, parental satisfaction, marital satisfaction, perceived fairness in the division of household labor, daily housework hour and family strengths had an influence on $work{\rightarrow}family$ negative spillover in wives, and weekends housework hour, perceived fairness in the division of household labor, perception of the gender role, and satisfaction of the division in household labor had an influence on $work{\rightarrow}family$ negative spillover in husband. Second, among variables related to family, parental satisfaction, number of children influence on $family{\rightarrow}work$ negative spillover in wives, and spouse support, parental satisfaction, satisfaction of the division in household labor, marital satisfaction, and perception of the gender role had an influence on $family{\rightarrow}work$ negative spillover in husband. Third, among variables related to employment, support from workplace, weekly working hour, monthly income, and job satisfaction had an influence on $work{\rightarrow}family$ negative spillover in wives, and support from workplace, monthly income, household income, and weekly working hour had an influence on $work{\rightarrow}family$ negative spillover in husband. Forth, among variables related to employment, support from workplace in wives, and job satisfaction in husband had an influence on $family{\rightarrow}work$ negative spillover. To conclude, there was some difference in the variables influencing $work{\rightarrow}family$, $family{\rightarrow}work$ negative spillover between wife and husband. So, We have to take this difference into consideration in establishing work-family life balance policies.