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Determinants of the Elder's Life Satisfaction by Gender (성별에 따른 고령자 생활만족도 결정요인)

  • You, Sohyen;Park, Chang-Je
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.11
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    • pp.244-252
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to empirically analyse determinants of elders' life satisfaction by gender and discuss policy implications for the findings. Data was obtained from the Social Statistics Survey conducted by the Korea National Statistical Office in 2013. From this dataset, 9,456 elders aged 60 and above (4,113 male, 5,343 female) were selected for this study. Results of ordered logit analysis found differences for determinants of elders' life satisfaction by gender. Results of this study can be summarized as follows: First, age has a significant positive effect on only male elders' life satisfaction. Second, education level has a significant positive effect on both male and female elders' life satisfaction. Third, having a spouse has a significant positive effect on only male elders' life satisfaction. Fourth, household income has a significant positive effect on both male and female elders' life satisfaction. Fifth, consumption life satisfaction has a significant positive effect on both male and female elders' life satisfaction. Sixth, house ownership has a significant positive effect on both male and female elders' life satisfaction. Seventh, preparation for aging has a significant positive effect on both male and female elders' life satisfaction. Eighth, each of three types of social support has a significant positive effect on both male and female elders' life satisfaction. Ninth, cohabitation with children has a significant negative effect on both male and female elders' life satisfaction. Tenth, volunteerism has a significant positive effect on only male elders' life satisfaction. Eleventh, social group participation has a significant positive effect on both male and female elders' life satisfaction.

Evaluating the Criteria and Weight Value for Ecological Network Connectivity of Baekdudaegan Mountain Range on Taebaeksan National Park (태백산국립공원 백두대간 생태축 연결을 위한 평가항목 및 가중치 설정)

  • Shin, Geehoon;Kim, Hye-Ri;Jang, Su-Rim;Kim, Hak-Yoon;Rho, Paikho
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.292-302
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    • 2019
  • This study conducted a hierarchy analysis based on a questionnaire survey of experts in park management, ecosystem survey, and ecological environment planning to establish evaluation items and a weighing value of each item to develop ecological connectivity in Baekdudaegan mountain range neighboring the Taebaeksan National Park using the AHP approach. We selected four high-level evaluation indexes and 13 low-level evaluation indexes through literature review and interview with the people in the field and calculated weights for each question through the consistency analysis. The analysis showed that increasing the ecological value was the most important item with the index of 0.474 among the high-level evaluation items, followed by the mitigation of human-nature conflict at 0.247, participation by local residents at 0.165, and the economic perspective at 0.114. Among the low-level evaluation indexes, the movement route of wildlife was the highest at 0.116, followed by the connectivity of landscape ecological patch at 0.112, and functional habitat at 0.099. The comparison of the evaluation items in each working group and the weight factors showed that the movement route of wildlife was the most important at 0.116 in ecosystem survey, the functional habitat was the most important at 0.110 in park management, and the regional preservation and distribution of resources was the most important at 0.123 in ecological environment planning. The results of this study is useful to identify evaluation items for developing ecological network with a diverse source of the actual environmental data in the Taebaeksan National Park.

Factors Influencing Social Media Use in Local Government (지방자치단체의 소셜미디어 활용과 영향요인에 관한 연구)

  • Noh, Jae-In;Chad, David Anderson;Seo, Jin-Wan
    • Informatization Policy
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.36-52
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    • 2019
  • The use of social media in government has expanded steadily around the world on the basis of Web 2.0 technology. The government uses social media as a tool for enhancing transparency, participation, collaboration, and saving costs. However, the use of social media in the public sector has not only been positive. It has also been described as a double-edged sword. Most local governments in South Korea use social media for a variety of reasons but there has not been enough practical study of the effectiveness of social media use in the public sector. Local governments generally have positive views of their social media use but the real application of social media is not consistent in each local government. This study tried to determine the reality of social media use in local government and what factors influenced its use. The research analyzed the data from a survey conducted by the Korea Local Information Research & Development Institute (KLID) in 2015 and data from Facebook in each local government. The results show that most local governments were using Facebook for promotional purposes and local government officials similarly recognized that they were using Facebook well. However, local governments showed great differences in their use and practical effect. Meanwhile, the study found that population, financial independence, level of government, the entity operating social media, the median age, and whether social media are used for interaction or to gather opinions were the most influential factors that make a difference in utilization in local government.

Domestic Research Trends and Cases of University Education and Operation in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (제4차 산업혁명 시대에서의 대학 교육 및 운영에 관한 연구 동향과 사례)

  • Kim, Kyu Tae
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.17 no.8
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    • pp.15-26
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    • 2019
  • This study was to explore the domestic research trends, and education and operation cases concerned with Korean colleges in the fourth industrial revolution era. It was conducted through the analysis of 114 academic papers registered to the Korea Research Foundation, the newspaper articles, and the main 4-year university homepage from 2016 to April 2019. The results was as follows. Research papers have been increasing since 2016; research were conducted by humanities and social sciences as well as engineering academics interesting in research topics such as technologies, curriculum, and teaching and learning by mainly using quantitative research, literature research. As for the college education, reorganization of the undergraduate and majors centered on the science and engineering field, teaching and learning related with learner's participation and performance, and provide efficient academic affairs management and career guidance using Chatbot or Cloud computing. Industry-academia cooperation was focuses on the field of science and engineering. In future research, it is necessary to explore the research on college students' career and employment, the research on academic affairs management and infrastructure, the relational research considering the variables among college students and faculties, and the qualitative and mixed method approach.

A Study on Determinants of Job Satisfaction Among the Old Workers Living Alone: Focused on Gender and Age (노동시장 참여 고령 1인가구의 직무만족 결정요인에 관한 연구 : 성별과 연령을 중심으로)

  • Hur, Junsoo;Choi, Sunghun;Kim, Jaeran
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.9
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    • pp.411-429
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    • 2019
  • There are not many studies on job satisfaction among older workers living alone. This study examined the determinants of job satisfaction for older workers living alone, and the job satisfaction was analyzed by the demographic-social factors, the health-psychological factors, and labor factors regarding to sex and ages. Korean Labor and Income Panel Study(KLIPS, 18th) used in this study, and the subjects were 308 older worker living alone and over 55 years old. The determinants of job satisfaction for male respondents were happiness, organizational commitment, and duration of work. Howver, the determinants of job satisfaction for female respondents were age, happiness, organizational commitment, and levels of skill. Income, organizational commitment, employment stability, and duration of work were the determinants for 55-64 years old. Education, organizational commitment, and levels of skill were the determinants for 65-74 years old. Education and happiness were the determinants for 75 years old and over. Age, income, happiness, organizational commitment, employment stability, duration of work, and levels of skill were the determinants of job satisfaction for all respondents. Finally, this study proposed the policy and practical implications for improving of job satisfaction among older workers living alone.

A Study of the Governance Discussion on Community Archives in North America (북미지역 공동체 아카이브의 '거버넌스' 논의와 비판적 독해)

  • Lee, Kyong-Rae
    • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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    • no.38
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    • pp.225-264
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    • 2013
  • The Purpose of this study is to analyze an active discussion in North America about the issue of community archives governance which mainly focused on 'participatory archives' model and from it, draws implications for the present stage of domestic community archives development. Traditionally in the United States and Canada, local community archives have been built mostly by mainstream cultural institutions such as public archives, public libraries, museums, and historical societies as a part of comprehensive documentation of the society at large. At the same time, they have been processed and managed in accordance with the institution's collection development policy. As a result, most community archives in North America are characterized as top-down community archives model (in contrast with down-up model of 'independent' community archives as a part of grass roots movement in the UK). Recently, the community archives in North America with these characteristics try to overcome their limitations, which result in 'the others' of community archives, through governance, that is, community-institution partnership. Participatory archives model which assumes active community participation in all archives processes is being suggested by archival communities as the effective alternative of governance model of top-down community archives. This discussion of community archives governance suggests progressive direction for the present stage of domestic community archives, which has been built mostly by various mainstream cultural institutions and still has been stayed in 'about the community' stage. Particularly, community outreach strategies that participatory archives model concretely suggests are useful as a conceptual framework in building community archives based on community-institution partnership in reality.

A Critical Review on Social Media Campaign Studies: Trends and Issues (소셜미디어 선거캠페인 연구 동향과 쟁점)

  • Chang, Woo-young
    • Informatization Policy
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.3-24
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    • 2019
  • This study examined the trends and issues of social media campaign studies from three aspects-campaign strategy, institutional environment regulating the social media, and political effect. Then, this study performed an empirical analysis on the case of the 20th general election in order to discuss the political effect, which has been analyzed the least. Specifically, this study empirically examined the trends of candidates' participation in the twitter campaign, the partial mobilization and voter response, and the platform effect on the election results. The study examined all of the candidates' twitter accounts and traffic and found the following results.-first, the number of participants in the twitter campaign increased significantly compared to the 19th general election, and the campaign was dominated by only two political parties that had more power to mobilize resources; second, it was clearly identified that twitter is a partisan media. where specifically, those in the mainstream of the Democratic Party mobilized much more supporters; and lastly, the twitter campaign has a positive impact on the increase in the rate of votes and chances of winning the election. Particularly, the number of followers and the duration of activities were found statistically meaningful, proving that promotion of networking and social capital is more important in election campaigns.

A Study on the Active Economic Activities by the Job Program to Overcome the Poverty of the Elderly in the Aged Society (고령사회 노인빈곤 극복의 일자리사업을 통한 적극적 경제활동 방안 고찰)

  • Kim, Young-Chul;Kim, Seo-Ho
    • Industry Promotion Research
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2021
  • This study regards the need for jobs to overcome the poverty of the elderly in an aged society, and as well as researches ways to participate in active economic activities in old age. The results of the study are as follows. First, the legal system needs to be improved. In addition to institutional support for the expansion of jobs for the elderly, improvement of awareness of the elderly and reinforcement of infrastructure such as a delivery system are required, and a legal basis for this is needed. To this end, occupations targeting the elderly must be selected first, and legal procedures must be prepared by the government. Second, there must be social consideration and support for the elderly. Extension of the retirement age plays an important role in enhancing employment for the elderly. Along with the improvement of the legal system, social consideration is required. Therefore, since the elderly policy without social consensus is bound to fail, various support methods that can lead to social support must be devised. Third, the elderly must have a sense of poverty and willingness to rehabilitate themselves. Elderly people should not only ask for their children and social support. The elderly must be able to find a way to become the economic agent themselves. To do this, a basic awareness of the elderly poverty consciousness is needed, and a change of awareness to escape the poverty of the elderly is necessary. Therefore, the elderly need to be self-reliant, and they must choose jobs according to their own abilities. In conclusion, the elderly job program is a part of income increase that solves the poverty of the elderly in the aged society, and the elderly are required to actively participate in economic activities.

Factors Affecting Activity Restriction in the Elderly with Chronic Disease: Using data from the 8th period of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (만성질환 노인의 활동 제한에 영향을 미치는 요인: 국민건강영양조사 제 8기 자료를 활용하여)

  • Hwang, Ho-Sung;Choi, Ji-Hyun;Kim, Su-Kyoung
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.11
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    • pp.359-369
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    • 2021
  • In this study, a complex sample logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the factors affecting the activity restriction of 2,701 normal elderly and chronically ill elderly aged 65 and over using raw data from the 8th period of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. It was found that the elderly with chronic disease felt more restricted in their activities than the normal elderly. Activity limiting factors in stroke and hypertension patients are subjective health status, economic level, stress perception, and moderate-intensity work and leisure. The factors limiting activity in patients with heart disease were subjective health status and economic level, and factors limiting activity in patients with joint disease were subjective health status and high-intensity work and leisure. Activity limiting factors for lung disease patients are education level, high intensity work and leisure, and endocrine system activity limiting factors include subjective health status, stress perception, high intensity work and leisure, and activity limiting factors for cancer patients. is subjective health status, stress perception, moderate-intensity work and high-intensity leisure. Rehabilitation programs and policy support are needed for the continuous participation of the elderly with chronic diseases.

Is Political Polarization Reinforced in the Online World?: Empirical Findings of Comments about News Articles (온라인 공간의 정치 양극화는 심화될 것인가?: 선거 기사 댓글에 대한 경험적 분석)

  • Eom, Ki-Hong;Kim, Dae-Sik
    • Informatization Policy
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.19-35
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this research is to investigate the attributes of the online world and to analyze their influence on democracy. The research focuses on the mayoral by-elections that were held in Seoul and Busan, South Korea, on April 4, 2021. The study demonstrates the characteristics of online spaces and the polarization of the online public through news articles and user comments from the Internet. The research includes topic modeling to measure the diversity of media reports, sentiment analysis to measure online public opinion, and interrupted time series analysis to understand how a particular event influences online attitudes. A combination of these methods is used to attempt to estimate the strength of political polarity in the online environment. The study shows diverse media reports by election region and candidate, where the online public repeatedly reveals high negative and low positive attitudes towards each candidate. Moreover, political polarity can differ based on the level of interest in an election. Although voters pay less attention to a by-election than a presidential election, there is a solid political polarity in the online world. Hence, the research recommends preparing measures to alleviate the polarization as politics requires significant online participation.