• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.405-418
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• 2016

This study was conducted to explore the influences of loss experiences and depression on ego-integraty and transcendence of elderly Koreans and to identify gender differences in the relationships among loss experiences, depression, ego-integrity, and transcendence from 146 men and 194 women aged over 60 years in Busan, Gyeong-Nam, and Gyeong-Buk area. The main results were as follows: elderly men reported more loss experiences and transcendence than elderly women. Next, loss experiences influenced ego-integrity and depression mediated the relationship between loss experiences and ego-integrity. Also, ego-integrity had a direct effect on transcendence. Last, depression of elderly men fully mediated the relationship between loss experiences and transcendence. The relationship between loss experiences and ego-integration was partially mediated by depression for elderly women. These results were discussed in terms of gero-education and elderly welfare.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.41-58
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to compare the job loss and job seeking experiences between middle-aged men and their younger cohort. Participants included 11 middle-aged unemployed men and nine younger unemployed men. The study adopted a phenomenological approach. In-depth individual interviews were carried out and the theme analysis was used to analyze the interview data. The results showed that the two cohorts experienced the macroeconomic crises, the foreign exchange crisis in 1997 and the global financial crisis in 2008, differently. Their experiences affected their attribution of the unemployment and job seeking process. They expressed ambivalence toward their family while dealing with social isolation from extrafamilial support. Most of the participants criticized government employment support policies and services.

• 한국가족관계학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.105-130
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• 2016

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the moderating effect of stress coping styles on the relationships between loss experiences and depression of the men and women elderly. Method: The subjects of the study were 116 men and 156 women aged over 60 years. For the data analysis, frequency, Cronbach's ${\alpha}$. Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regression were used. Results: The main results were as follows: First, elderly men reported higher role loss experience, relation loss experience, and problem-focused coping styles than elderly women. Also elderly women reported higher bereavement experience than elderly men. Second, there were main effects of health loss experience, economy loss experience, role loss experience, relation loss experience, problem-focused coping style, and emotion-focused coping style on depression of elderly men and women. Third, problem-focused coping styles moderated the relationships between physical health loss experience, economy loss experience, role loss experience and depression in the elderly men group. Last, social support-seeks coping styles moderated the relationships between economy loss experience and depression in the elderly women group. Conclusions: These results were discussed in terms of educational programs related stress coping strategies for the elderly.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.885-896
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• 2011

This research is intended to examine adult children's experiences with parental bereavement and the effect of the experiences on family relationships and their lives. In order to describe the subjects' experiences as they are and understand their meaning and essence, data was analyzed using the Colaizzi method, an approach to phenomenology as a qualitative research methods. The findings showed that subjects suffered from the loss of parents; however, they recovered from their conditions after an ancestor worshiping service. In addition, they took heavy responsibility for a survived parent after bereavement and experienced changes in the roles of family members. In conclusion, experience with parental bereavement caused adult children to reflect on themselves, to discuss the essence of life, and to change the attitudes of their life from a future-oriented perspective to a here-and-now perspective.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.361-371
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• 2020

본 연구는 노인의 차별경험이 자살생각에 미치는 영향과 상실감의 매개효과를 검증함으로써 노인차별경험과 상실감이 자살생각으로 이어지는 경로를 분석하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 경기도 31개 시군구를 층화표집하여 노인복지관 10개소를 이용하는 65세 이상 노인 400명 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였으며, 불성실한 응답을 제외한 총 380부를 최종 분석하였다. 연구결과 첫째, 노인차별경험 하위요인인 개인적 차별경험과 사회적 차별경험이 많을수록 자살생각이 증가하였다. 둘째, 개인적 차별경험은 상실감을 부분매개로 자살생각에 정적인 영향력을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 사회적 차별경험은 상실감을 완전매개로 자살생각에 정적인 영향력을 보였다. 따라서 상실감은 노인의 자살생각에 위험 요인으로 작용하는 것으로 나타났다. 연구결과를 바탕으로 노인의 사회적 차별경험을 예방하고 노인복지 실천현장에서 상실감 해소를 통해 노인자살을 예방하기 위한 실천적 함의를 제시하였다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권6호
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• pp.1035-1056
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• 2009

Korean adoptee narratives have proliferated over the last ten years as adopted Koreans have begun to represent their own experiences of violent dislocation, displacement and loss in various forms of literary and artistic works, including poems, autobiographical works, novels, documentaries and films. These narratives by Korean adoptees have intervened in the current diaspora discourse to question further the traditional categories of race, ethnicity, culture and nation by representing the unique experiences of the forced and involuntary migration of adopted Koreans. For a long time, the adoption discourse has been mostly constructed from the perspectives of adoptive parents. Therefore the voice of adoptees as well as that of the birth mothers have not been properly heard or represented in adoption discourse. According to Hosu Kim, the U. S. adoption discourse, feeling pressured to deal with the stigma of the commodification of children, changed from viewing the adoptees as children who had been rescued from poverty and abandonment to considering them as a gift from the birth mothers. With the emergence of the gift rhetoric in transnational adoption, the birth mothers erased from adoption discourse have begun to be acknowledged as one of the central characters in the adoption triad. If Korean adoptees are the "the ghostly children of Korean history," the birth mothers are their "ghostly doubles" who "bear the mark of a repressed national trauma." Somebody's Daughter represents the female experiences of becoming an adopted child and of being a birth mother. In particular, the novel makes a birth mother, the forgotten presence in adoptee narratives, into a central figure in the triangular relationship created by international adoption. The novel historicizes the experiences of a Korean adoptee growing up in America as well as those of a mother who had suffered silently from feelings of unbearable loss, guilt, grief and from unforgettable memories. In addition, narrating the birth mother's story is a way to give humanity back to these forgotten women in Korean adoption history. Revisiting the site of loss both for a mother and a daughter through the novel is an act of collective mourning. The narratives about and by Korean adoptees force Korean intellectuals to reflect seriously upon Korean society and its underlying ideology which prevents a woman from mothering her own baby, and to take an ethical and political stand on this current social and political issue.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.305-316
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• 2002

This study examined the crisis experiencing by middle - aged women and tried to understand their lived experiences also explored the nature of their crisis. Method: The data was collected from 7 participants living in Incheon and Seoul from Sep. 2000 to Feb. 2001. The analysis of the data was made the phenomenological analytic method suggested by Giorgi. Result: The meanings of the lived experiences of the middle - aged women's crisis ; Impatience about decreased physical function : an attack of a disease, decreased strength, decreased quickness, decreased desire, increased concern of health, poor memory, easy fatigue, change of appearance, change of conjugal relations, sense of loss. Psychological, emotional disturbances : sense of emptiness, regret, sharpness, feeling gloomy, fear of dying, loneliness, feeling the want, loss of confidence. Attitude of active life : reinforcement of self experience, enrichment of understanding, search of self satisfaction, search of self development, development of support system, management of independent life. Envy feeling from relative comparison : feeling of comfort, unsatisfaction to the husband, yearning for youth. Conclusion: Therefore, the program should be developed for the program of physical, psychological, and emotional health and expansion of social role of the middle - aged women.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.39-49
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• 2008

This research reports on a qualitative analysis of email facilitated reflective dialogue with seven college students whose parent dies. The study was exploratory in considering cultural values on intact family and asked the question: What do children experience after parental death in terms of the relationships with intra and extrafamily systems? Young adult children of single parent family expressed that they felt social pressure to practice filial piety toward their single parent. They made efforts to fulfill the social expectation and to achieve social desirability. Social stigma from extrafamily systems affected the experiences of the bereaved children. In terms of intrafamily system, young adult children tend to idealize their deceased parent. Single parents depended on the young adult children, which made parent-child relationship enmeshed or conflicting. The holistic view of the study highlights the importance of interactions between individuals and the intra and extra family systems when understanding family loss experience of the bereaved young people.

• 한국가족관계학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.73-101
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• 2017

Objectives: This study is to understand the experiences of overcoming pain of loss of family survivors in Suicide Bereavement Support Group(SBSG). Method: Experiential data was collected by in-depth interview(FGI, individual) to 10 family survivors(over 19) who having an experience participating in SBSG over 5months and analyzed using qualitative methodology. Results: We drew the result that 'SPACE model' which structuralize by 5 stages of suicide survivors' experience of SBSG of time path. SPACE model configured as follow: Stage1, Space in vacuum, the time to feel a sense of overwhelming feeling like pain, fear, alienation after loss of suicide, Stage2, Probing, when to find informations and resources to help survivors themselves, Stage3, Acclimation, having experiences empathy and healing as in SBSG, Stage4, Composure, accepting SBSG meaning as a part of their lives, loss of my family by suicide, and the beginning of bereavement, Stage5, Endurance, overcoming suffering through SBSG and try to help other survivors. Conclusions: SBSG is the opportunity for family survivors to overcome the pains from loss of suicide, shock, anger, grief, etc., and to empower them to help other suicide survivors.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.315-325
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• 2019

누구나 경험하는 상실경험은 보다 어린 시기에 경험되었을 경우에 더 부정적인 영향을 끼칠 수 있다. 본 연구는 대학생들의 청소년기 상실경험에 대한 정서표현과 부정적 정서조절방략이 우울에 미치는 영향에 대한 자존감의 매개효과를 살펴보았다. 연구에 참여한 총 380명의 대학생을 대상으로 지금까지 어떤 상실을 경험했는지, 상실 경험 후의 정서표현과 부정적 정서조절방략이 자존감의 정도에 따라 어떻게 우울에 영향을 끼치는 가를 알아보기 위해 SPSS 21.0과 Amos21.0 프로그램을 사용하여 분석하였다. 분석결과는 상실경험에 대한 정서표현은 우울에 부적인 관계를 보였고(${\beta}=-.180$, p<.01), 부정적 정서조절 방략은 우울과 정적인 관계(${\beta}=.266$, p<.001)를 보였다. 그리고 상실경험에 대한 정서표현은 자존감수준을 증가시킴으로 우울 수준을 감소시키며, 상실경험에 대한 부정적 정서조절방략은 자존감 수준을 저하시킴으로 우울 수준을 증가시키는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 상실 이후 경험하게 되는 다양한 정서적 경험에 대해 누구에게라도 말하는 경험이 많을수록, 자신을 비난하지 않고 긍정적으로 생각하려고 할수록, 높은 자존감을 유지할수록 우울을 덜 경험할 수 있을 것이라고 예측해 볼 수 있다.