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A Field Study of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Community after Typhoon Rusa (일개 지역사회 재해 주민의 외상 후 스트레스 장애 정도와 관련요인 분석)

  • 이인숙;하양숙;김기정;김정희;권용희;박진경;이나윤
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.829-838
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    • 2003
  • Purpose: In South Korea, as growing the need of psychological support in disaster situation psychological assessment on stress after disaster is important to find out the factors affecting coping, and to plan intervention in the community. Method: The volunteers of Korea Redcross who live around K city, and the research team visited all homes at Jirye town, one of the high-impact area, 4 month after the typhoon. One of the family members who is over 18 years old, answered the self-report questionnaire composed of disaster experience, damage, exposure to traumatic event, and posttraumatic stress with IES-K (Impact of Event Scale-korea) He also, described his family members symptom related to re-experiencing, hyper-arousal, and avoidance. Six hundreds households were surveyed. Result: The prevalence of moderate to severe PTSD symptom was 36% of the subjects. The severity of PTSD was affected by gender, economic status and affected by damaged property, physical injury, worsening existing disease, getting infectious disease, amount of experienced traumatic event before disaster, warning, taking shelter, and subjects revealed differences in somatization as severity of PTSD. According to the description, community members had re-experiencing, hyper-arousal and avoidance. Conclusion: At a rural area, South Korea, community members have suffered from psychological distress after disaster. So psychological interventions are required as affecting factors and also to plan for warning and shelter in disaster situation is needed for preventing PTSD.

Effects of Character Strengths on Psychological Characteristics and Work Ethics of Hanwoo Managers: Gyeongnam and Gyeongbuk Areas (성격 강점이 한우경영인들의 심리특성과 직업의식에 미치는 영향: 경남과 경북지역을 중심으로)

  • Baek, Yu-Mi;Choi, In-Hag
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.779-785
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    • 2013
  • To examine the psychological characteristics and work ethics of Hanwoo managers, we selected 26 of the 50 managers who took part in this study to avoid unreliable response and non-description from the questionnaire. The core results of this study were the following: First, cronbach's ${\alpha}$ reliability with highest domain in this study were obtained from character strengths (.938), followed by job satisfaction (.841), internal evaluation (.799), and external evaluation (.739). Second, for perception and attitude of Hanwoo management, the correlation between job satisfaction and internal evaluation (P<0.05) was observed. Management satisfaction showed higher for intermediate group and subgroup and lower satisfaction for the top group. Third, there were statistical differences (P<0.05) in ten character strengths (curiosity, judgment, creativity, social intelligence, wisdom, honesty, optimism, responsibility, humor, and passion) according to group satisfaction. Ten character strengths were lower in creativity (7.14) and higher in responsibility (8.57) in comparison with other items for the top group. In conclusion, these results suggest that character strengths are beneficial to improve Hanwoo management on psychological characteristics and work ethics of managers.

Effects of self-management on psychological happiness in throwers (투척선수들의 자기관리가 심리적 행복감에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Myung-Sun;Lee, Moon-Sook
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.1128-1135
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of field athletes' self-management on their psychological happiness. The subjects of the study were 184 athletes (male=82, female=102) who participated in the 91th National Athletes Meeting. All statistical analyses and description methods were computed by SPSS window 18.0. The discriminant analysis was used to find effects of self-management on their psychological happiness, ANOVA and Multiple regression. The results of this study were as followings: Frist, there was not significant difference to The Relationship between social-demographical variables and self-management, their psychological happiness. Second, self-management had a significant effect on psychological happiness. Based on the results, Field athletes's self-management has a positive effect on their psychological happiness.

The Effect of Electric Lamp on Visual Perception (광원(光源)의 색온도(色溫度)·연색성(演色性) 및 휘도(輝度)레벨이 시지각(視知覺) 변화에 미치는 영향)

  • Yoon, In;Jeong, Chang-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.55-64
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    • 1998
  • This paper deals with the effects of fluorescent lamp description and luminance level on the occupant's brightness perception and other sensation in building interiors. The following experiments were conducted: the subjects compared on room lit by daylight fluorescent lamps with the other room lit by the different lamp description at equal luminance at equal luminance level. The degree of that effect decreased with a rise in luminace level. The brightness perception had high correlation with the visual clarity and no correlation with favorite sensation.

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A Study on the Classification of Adjectives for Psychological Evaluation of Sounds (음의 심리평가를 위한 어휘의 유형화에 관한 연구)

  • 김선우;장길수;정광용;한명호
    • Journal of KSNVE
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.361-371
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    • 1993
  • A psychological experiment is conducted by using the method of selected description to find out appropriate terms for expressing the attributes of sounds. It is true that the term is an important clue to estimate the sensation or emotion of sounds even though it does not directly express them. On the basis of the results, it is found in the subjective impression that adjectives are classified into 8 types of group: "pleasant and bright", "weak", "mild and beautiful", "shocking", "unpleasant", powerful", "dark", and "dull" feeling. Also, it is found that "loud", "noisy" and "annoying" terms have the meaning of "strong, powerful and magnificant", "metallic and clamorous", and "unpleasant and unpleasing" feeling as a meaning Korean language respectively.ot;, "metallic and clamorous", and "unpleasant and unpleasing" feeling as a meaning Korean language respectively.nguage respectively.

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A Case Study on Literary Therapy Using Self-Narritive Analysis -Application of Convergence Techniques in Epic Analysis- (자기서사 분석을 활용한 문학치료 사례연구 -서사분석의 융복합적 기법적용-)

  • Kim, Eunjung
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.273-278
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to help self-healing by identifying self-description by utilizing the self-description diagnosis of literary therapy and the resonance of the work narrative. Therefore, the research was conducted through the methodology of literature therapy, which uses the self-introduction team of literary therapy and basic photography team to understand their own narrative and to heal themselves through resonance with the work narrative. Through this study, we understood that it is possible to understand and identify and understand one's psychological problems through self-description and self-culture techniques. This case study revealed that it can be used as a new technique for understanding self-description by applying the methodology of literary therapy and for healing self-exploration through resonance with the work narrative.

Service Program and Job Description of Workers in Long-term Care Facilities for Older Adults (노인요양기관별 서비스 유형과 종사자의 업무분석)

  • Lee, Hung-Sa
    • Journal of Home Health Care Nursing
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.70-91
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    • 2005
  • Purpose: Long-term care facilities have a responsibility to provide care service that enables residents to maintain their maximal functional capacity and quality of life. Also their needs must be reflected to the service programs. In oder to provide an adequate service, we should assess the elderly's physical, psychological and social health status and the need. In addition to this, the long-term care facilities must be defined clearly by the type of services. This study would contribute to conduct appropriate services in public long-term care policy for the older population in the future. This study would provide informations of long-term care facilities' services and older persons' needs for long-term care. Method: To achieve this objectives, this paper investigates the types, service programs of long-term care institutes and job descriptions of workers. The subjects were consisted of 150 long-term care institutes. 150 institutes of long-term care facilities were drawn from all over the country by a nonrandom, convenience sampling. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, $x^2$-test using SPSS program. The instruments of this study were self-reported questionnaires for long-term care institutes. The data were collected from March 1, 2004 to may 31, 2004. Results: Service programs of long-term care institutes were not enough for residents' demands. The job descriptions among nurse, social worker and physical therapist were not clearly defined. The nurse's main role was medication and checking vital sign(49.7%), that of social worker's was observation and supervising (31.2%). The most significant problems were lacking of diverse service programs for residents. Conclusion: Considering these findings and conclusion, the needs of long-term care services should be provided by individual physical and psychological level. And the professional manpower for elderly should be educated in multi disciplines.

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Effects of the Big Five Aspects on Psychological Adjustment (성격10요인이 심리적 적응에 미치는 영향)

  • Jung Yun Lee ;Kyung Hwan Min ;Minhee Kim
    • Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.481-503
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    • 2012
  • This study aims to investigate the effects of the Big Five Aspects on psychological adjustment and the practical use of the Big Five Aspects in personality studies. Correlations between psychological adjustment(subjective well-being, life satisfaction, anxiety, depression) and the Big Five Aspects were compared to correlations between the Big Five and psychological adjustment. The results showed distinction between two aspects within each of the Big Five that major personality traits that are actually related to psychological adjustment were found. Multiple regressions were used with subjective well-being, life satisfaction, anxiety, and depression as criterion variables to investigate the effect of the Big Five Aspect on psychological adjustment and the results are as followed. Big Five Aspects accounted for 66.2% of the variance in subjective well-being and withdrawal, compassion, industriousness, enthusiasm, assertiveness, openness significantly predicted subjective well-being. Life satisfaction and depression were significantly predicted by withdrawal and enthusiasm. Withdrawal was the only variable that significantly predicted anxiety. Multiple regression also showed that withdrawal and enthusiasm were the most consistent, accountable variables in predicting overall psychological adjustment. This findings indicate that individual's personality traits played a significant role in predicting subjective well-being and mental health as consistent with past findings, and that the Big Five Aspects can offer more detailed and specific description than the Big Five can. Finally, the research discusses implications, limitations and suggestions for further studies.

Factors Influencing the Investor's Decision Making: The Moderating Role of Locus of Control

  • KAMRAN, Hafiz Waqas;QAISAR, Abthal;SULTANA, Nayyer;NAWAZ, Muhammad Atif;AHMAD, Hafiz Tanveer
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.12
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    • pp.535-543
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    • 2020
  • Investors from the whole world are looking for those stock markets that are less affected by interest rates. Pakistan is a good place to invest and the investors from the whole world are considering Pakistan for future ventures. The current study, therefore, aims to analyze the factors affecting investors' decision making in Pakistan with the interaction effect of locus of control. The primary data are gathered from 300 respondents. Structural equation modelling (SEM-PLS) is used to analyze the interactions among variables. The study finds positive impact of availability and representative biases on investment decision making. The study could not find any moderating role of locus of control. The results imply that decisions made by Pakistani investors are driven by the most easily or currently available information and they trust on the information obtained from family and friends without any authentication and verification. One possible description of insignificant moderation effect of locus of control can be the sample traits used in the study, e.g., personal characteristics, that change from culture to culture. Another description of these findings may be the association between heuristic biases, including availability, representative and psychological biases and decision-making regarding investment is not personality specific.

The Effect of Advertisement Vividness and Regulatory Focus on Consumer Choice

  • Park, Kikyoung
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.15 no.7
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    • pp.25-33
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    • 2017
  • Purpose - This study aims to explore how a combination of the advertisement presentation vividness and consumers' regulatory focus affects choice. In addition, it seeks to the understanding for the psychological process by using consumers' response with experimental designs. Research design, data, and methodology - This research conducted two experiments based on the scenario. Specifically, Experiment 1 used a 2 (vividness of advertisement presentation: picture vs. word) × 2 (regulatory focus: prevention focus vs. promotion focus) between-subjects design. Experiment 2 used a 2 (vividness of advertisement presentation: detailed description vs. less detailed description) × 2 (regulatory focus: prevention focus vs. promotion focus) between-subjects design. Results - Two studies showed that prevention-focused individuals, when presented with a vivid presentation, were more likely to choose the advertised option compared with advertisements presented less vividly appearance. In contrast, promotion-focused individuals showed no difference in choice shares regardless of advertisement presentation vividness. In addition, these effects were mediated by the imagery toward the advertised information. Conclusions - The current research found how consumers' inherent motivation affects the extent of imagery in a purchase decision and a new perspective to previous studies with regards to regulatory focus. Further, this research suggested new advertisement strategies to corporations.