• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.37-54
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• 2014

This study investigates fathers' demands for fathering education. Data from eight married, working men was collected through in-depth interviews. The interviews were intended to examine their father-role, working life, balance between work and family, and demand for the educational programs for fathers with particular regard to the themes, contents, and arrangement strategies they desire of the programs. The results show that fathers have a high demand for learning detailed methods of childrearing such as how to effectively sooth and play with their child(ren). Further, it was discovered that job flexibility is the major variable that determines a man's satisfaction with his parental role. Various information about possible arrangements of fathering education was collected from the interview data, such as desired themes, number of sessions, size of the educational program, volunteer role of participants, and focus of the course (e.g., many indicated interest in focusing on gender equality). This study reveals that greater detail, more effective contents, and efficient managerial strategies are required in fathering education in order to impart broader perspectives and knowledge about how to enhance the relationship between father and child(ren).

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.71-76
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• 2017

Our society is showing rapid growth throughout the industry, but it is in the era of nuclear family and aging. Due to the elderly, the demand for social welfare services such as medical treatment services tends to increase sharply. However, duties of senior citizens and social workers engaged in related medical care facilities are not clearly identified, and job stress has occurred and the degree of job satisfaction is extremely low. Therefore, in this paper, in relation to the social worker's duties of elderly nursing home care facilities, in practicing welfare services, knowledge base that was convergence with duties so that you can focus on service according to better environment and standardized procedures To provide a management system. Through the proposed system, social workers are expected to be able to improve work satisfaction by quickly grasping operations and escaping from job stress through their own development and information sharing.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.547-555
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• 2013

This study aims to examine association between festival service evaluation attribute and behavior intention of visitors and research satisfaction with festival, second visit and recommendation intention, ultimately in order to suggest measures to establish market strategies. The study was conducted as follows. First, a total of 360 pieces of questionnaire were distributed from October 14 to 16, 2011 and a total of 335 pieces were collected. Except 15 pieces without responses, 320 were used for the study. Second, in service evaluation elements, program, facility and performance review had positive impacts on the satisfaction and second visit. All evaluation elements also positively affected recommendation intention. Third, in association between demographic features and satisfaction, second visit and recommendation intention, while the satisfaction positively influenced bringing a friend, it negatively influenced academic background and income. In addition, residence and job gave a positive affect on second visit, while income, bringing family and first visit gave a negative effect on the second visit. Last, age, academic background, income and bringing family gave a negative effect on recommendation intention.

• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.461-470
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• 2013

Purpose: This study examined factors influencing subjective quality of life in baby boom generation men. Methods: This was a descriptive survey study. Data were collected from 279 baby boom generation men from September to October 2012. The instruments used included a subjective quality of lifescale, a self-esteem scale, a spiritual well-being scale, a communication with spouse scale, a social support scale, and a job satisfaction scale. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Scheff$\acute{e}$ test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and Hierarchical multiple regression. Results: All variables were positively correlated with subjective quality of life. As a result, factors influencing subjective life of quality were self-esteem (${\beta}$=.21, p<.000), social support (${\beta}$=.20, p<.002), job satisfaction (${\beta}$=.19, p<.001), communication with spouse (${\beta}$=.15, p<.004), spiritual well-being( ${\beta}$=.16, p<.004), and family income (${\beta}$=.15. p<.023). These factors accounted for 61% of the total variances. Conclusion: The findings indicate a need to develop nursing intervention programs for community health nurses in consideration of these variables to improve the subjective quality of life for baby boom generation men.

• Journal of Home Health Care Nursing
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.23-30
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• 2007

Purpose: The aim of this study was to establish basic data for developing education program of tailor made visiting home health care. Method: For this study, the subject was recruited in one directorial area among 14 nation-wide areas. The data collection was done using self-report questionnaire developed by Korea Health Industry Development Institute. Ninety one questionnaires were analyzed and response rare was 88.3%. Result: The major results were as follows. Aspect of education operations, the satisfaction of education space was revealed high. However, the satisfaction of education time, hour, and schedule were low. The overall satisfaction of education contents were revealed high. The most useful curriculums were found Chronic disease management, Infant & toddler health management, and Case management of tailor made visiting home health care. However the most unuseful curriculums were Nutritional management according to subject's health problem, Health promotion for poor family, and Understanding of visiting service in community health center. Conclusion: With these results, it was identified that the most needed contents of tailor made visiting home health care education program. So these results will be used to develop the more effective education program to activate tailor made visiting home health care service in community health center.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.73-84
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• 2007

This study investigated the influence of director's leadership on teachers' empowerment and organizational effectiveness in early childhood educational institutes. The subjects in this study were 627 teachers who worked at kindergartens and childcare centers located in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. The results showed that (1) transformational leadership had stronger effects on teacher empowerment than transactional leadership. (2) Directors' transformational leadership had meaningful effects on organizational commitment, but their transactional leadership didn't have effects on commitment. (3) Directors' transformational leadership had stronger effects on job satisfaction and job performance than transactional leadership.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.91-101
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• 1998

The purpose of this study was to identify which of the variables were associated with ineffective parental child-rearing practices and to examine the effects of cumulative risk factors on ineffective child-rearing practices. The subjects for this study consisted of 120 mothers and 120 fathers of two to six year old children attending a university child development laboratories. Self-report questionnaire were used to collect data on the following variables: 1) family backgrojnd characteristics; 2) child temperament; 3) quality of life; 4) social support; 5) intergenerational trasmission of parenting; and 6) parental disciplinary practices. Descriptive analysis, t-test, and chi-square analyses were used for data description and analysis. The major findings were as follows: 1) Mothers who perceived the child as being less emotional, more soothable, and who had higher levels of marital satisfaction and job satisfaction engaged in more effective child-rearing practices. 2) Fathers who perceived the child as being less emotional, and who have boys provided more effective child-rearing practices. 3) For both mothers and fathers, parents with higher levels of quality life, social support, and family income exhibited more effective child-rearing practices. 4) Parents exposed to several risk factors were much more likely to exhibit ineffective child-rearing practices than parents exposed to no risk factors. The results of this study indicate that the characteristics of the child, parent, and contextual factors all contribute to the parental child-rearing pracitices.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.77-93
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is investigated on the loneliness of childhood and related variables. 400 boys and girls were sampled far this study that they are elementary school 5th 6th located in IK-San, Kim-Je city. Survey was conducted by self-reported questionnaires and 380 questionnaires were finally used for the data analysis. The data analysis with SPSS Computer program were frequency, percentage, mean, 7- 1est, one-way ANOVA with Duncan's Multiple Range test and Multiple Regression Analysis. The results of this study can be summarized as follows : 1. Significant difference was founded in children's loneliness according to father's education, father's job mother's education, school grade, name satisfaction, body satisfaction, siblings, close relation friend number, family harmony, parent's love- acceptable. 2. Significant difference was founded in children's loneliness according to peer status degree (popular isolation aggression). Higher popular children was perceived lower in loneliness than lower popular children. Higher isolation children was perceived higher in loneliness than lower isolation. Higher aggression children was perceived higher in loneliness than lower aggressive in loneliness. 3. In the result of multiple regression analysis the influence on the loneliness be presented as follows in order of importance , peer status of isolation degree popular degree mother's job of self business, parent's love-acceptable, friends number. The result the above study indicates that peer status family harmony, parent's love- acceptable, child's psychological environmental variables influences on the loneliness but essential variables are influences peer status on the loneliness.

• Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.51-63
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• 1997

Changes in disease patterns increase the importance of health-promoting lifestyles in a healthy society. Thus health education in elementary schools is very important because the knowledge of health and health habits in this period become a habitual part of life. The purpose of this study is to identify the performance in promoting healthy lifestyles of elementary school nurses. Such data helps to provide data to judge whether they are capable health educators or not. The subjects were 365 elementary school nurses selected by purposive sample. The data were collected by a self reporting questionnaire from August to October of 1996. The methods used in this study were the health-promoting lifestyle profile developed by Park In Sook (1995) and Licker's flour-point scale. A Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, percentage, mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coffcient and stepwise multiple regression in the SAS package were used to analyze the data. The results of this study were as follows: 1. 37.7% of the sample were aged between 30 and 39 and 33.7% were between 40 and 49. 44.9% of the sample had attended college. 87.7% of the sample were married. 42.5% of the sample were people with a career of 11~20 years, and 26.0% of it had 21 years or more of working experience as an elementary school nurses. 2. The average scores of the family function and the social support were 2.97 and 2.98 respectively. 3. 86.5% of the sample were satisfied with their job. 4. 85.8% of the sample answered that they were healthy and 14.2% answered that they were unhealthy. The average scores of the internal health locus of control and self-esteem were 3.35 and 3.15 respectively. 5. The average score of performance in health-promoting lifestyle variables was 3.16; the average scores for harmonious relationships, regular diet professional health maintenance, sanitary life, self-control, emotional support, diet, rest and sleep, exercise and activity. self-achievement, and diet control were 3.47, 3.30, 2.52. 3.60, 2.92, 3.18, 3.14, 3.11, 2.96, 3.26 and 3.12. The variable with the highest degree of correlation was a sanitary life, whereas the one with the lowest degree was professional health maintenance. 6. A significant difference was found in self-esteem according to age. There was a significant difference in the average score of internal health locus of control according to age and career. 7. There were significant differences in the health-promoting lifestyle performance depending on age, career and monthly household income. The longer the career, the higher the health-promoting lifestyle performance. 8. A weak positive correlation was found between self-esteem and health-promoting lifestyles performance(r=0.417, p<0.001) Also, a weak positive correlation was found between the internal health locus of control and health-promoting lifestyles performance (r=0.386, p<0.001). 9. Heath-promoting lifestyle performance showed significant correlations with family function, social support and job satisfaction. 10. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that the most powerful predictor was the variance of family function. Social support, age, self-esteem, internal health locus of control, perceived heath status and job satisfaction accounted for 55.9% of the variance in heath-promoting lifestyle performance.

• Perspectives in Nursing Science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.101-108
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare parenting stress between married migrant women and Korean women. Methods: Subjects were 68 married migrant women and 70 Korean women raising children aged seven years or younger, living in three different cities in Gangwon Do. To measure parenting stress, we used Kim's (1997) questionnaire that had been modified from Richard & Abidin's (1990) Parenting Stress Index (PSI). Results: There were significant differences between the two groups in age, academic credentials, job, monthly income, and achievement of maternal role. No statistically significant differences were found for parenting stress scores (p<.355), but there was a significant difference in the child characteristics of parenting stress (p<.007) between the two groups. There were no differences in the demographic variables influencing parenting stress between the two groups. Conclusion: The development of multi-cultural parenting and family support programs should consider the nationality and marital satisfaction of the family.