• Human Ecology Research
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• 제59권1호
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• pp.113-125
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• 2021

Previous research on the association between marriage and life satisfaction is limited due to the lack of attempts to investigate the time profiles of life satisfaction around marriage. This study addresses unresolved questions about the positive association between marriage and life satisfaction as well as tests if it is moderated by childhood parental divorce. Using 14 waves of the Korean Welfare Panel Study(N=3,890 individuals or 25,338 person-year observations), the author first used an ordinary least squares model with clustered standard errors and found that married people reported higher life satisfaction before marriage, compared to people who remained single during the survey. This result supports a social selection perspective. Next, the author used a fixed effects regression model and found that the transition into marriage was associated with an initial rise and subsequent decline in life satisfaction. Life satisfaction increased after reaching its lowest level in the third year of marriage. Life satisfaction after the transition into marriage was significantly higher than that observed three or more years prior to marriage. The result supports a social causation perspective. Such changing patterns were not moderated by parental divorce during childhood. This study advances the current literature on marriage and life satisfaction by using a nationally representative longitudinal data set as well as by testing social selection and causation perspectives.

• 한국인구학
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.159-184
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• 2012

본 연구는 노동시장 통합이 결혼 이행에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 결혼 시점과 결혼 3년 전의 일자리 유무와 고용형태를 가지고 일자리의 안정성과 지속성이 초혼 형성에 유의한 영향을 미치는지 살펴보았다. 특히 1997년 외환위기 이전과 이후에 노동시장에 진입했을 가능성이 높은 두 집단을 코호트별로 나누어, 거시적인 사회경제적 변동 과정에서 노동시장통합이 결혼에 미친 차별적 영향에 대해 분석한다. 한국노동패널을 사용하여 2008년도 기준으로 18세 이상인 성인 남녀의 결혼 이행을 분석한다. 분석 결과, 취업상태와 정규직 근무는 남성의 초혼 형성 해저드는 높이는 반면 여성의 초혼 형성 해저드는 낮추었다. 장기무직, 즉 교육이나 군대 기간을 제외하고 결혼 전 3년 동안 2년 이상 무직 상태에 있을 때 남녀 모두 결혼이 지연될 가능성이 높았다. 정규직 근속기간이 2년 이상인 여성은 그렇지 않은 여성보다 결혼 해저드가 높아졌다. 정규직 근속기간이 긴 남성에게서는 이러한 효과가 나타나지 않았다. 또한 코호트별로 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 발견되어 최근의 사회경제적 불확실성과 노동시장 불안정화의 부정적 영향이 더욱 강화되었음을 시사했다.

• 한국가족관계학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.119-145
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• 2017

Objectives: Grounded in a life-course perspective, this study examined the effects of non-coresident children's transitions to marriage and parenthood on the frequency of contact with their parents. Gender of adult children and the educational levels of both adult children and their parents were evaluated as potential moderators of the transition-contact linkages. Method: The analytic sample consisted of adult children aged between 20 and 50 whose parents participated in four waves of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012). For analysis, fixed effects regression models were estimated using the xtreg procedure in Stata. Results: First, transition to marriage was associated with a decrease in face-to-face contact, whereas a greater increase in contact with parents via phone, mail, email etc. occurred only among newly married with less than college education compared to the newlywed with college degrees. Second, transition to parenthood was associated with an increase in contact via phone, mail, email etc. In addition, a greater increase in face-to-face contact was found with parents who completed high school or more education compared to those with less than high school education. Conclusions: The findings suggest that adult children's transitions to marriage and parenthood may bring about increases in contact with their parents, particularly for adult children with less than college education and parents with more than high school education.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.180-194
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• 2016

결혼이주여성의 지역정체성은 특정 장소나 위치에 고정된 것이 아니라 지리적 이동과 새로운 지역으로의 정착을 통해 유연적 유동적으로 구성된다. 본 연구에서는 이주라는 공간적 전환을 통해 구성 재구성되는 결혼이주여성의 지역정체성과 생활 변화에 주목하였다. 이를 위해 결혼이주여성의 지역정체성을 다문화와 이중문화 정체성, 동화와 한국문화 정체성, 배제와 본국문화 정체성, 주변화와 주변문화 정체성으로 유형화하여 결혼이주여성의 이주 및 정착과정에서 나타나는 생활 변화 특성을 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 이주의 실행이라는 동일한 경험을 한 결혼이주여성이라 할지라도 개인적, 지역적 특성과 그 속에서 주어진 역할에 따라 상이한 지역정체성을 형성했다. 또한 대부분의 결혼이주여성들은 본국문화 정체성의 유지 및 표출에 소극적인 것으로 나타났다. 과반수이상의 결혼이주여성들이 다문화와 이중문화 정체성, 동화와 한국문화 정체성 유형으로 나타났다. 또한 동화와 한국문화 정체성 유형의 결혼이주여성이 다른 유형보다 생활만족도 변화가 크게 나타났다. 이를 통해 여전히 한국사회의 결혼이주여성에게는 동화와 순응이 적응과 동일개념으로 인식됨을 확인할 수 있었다. 그러나 결혼이주여성 및 다문화 가정 자녀의 이문화 역량은 문화와 문화 사이의 교량적 역할을 가능하게 하며, 한국의 다문화사회 다문화공간으로의 전환을 위해서는 서로의 문화를 상호인정하고, 공존할 수 있는 전세계적 시민성 함양이 필요함을 제언했다.

• 한국인구학
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.139-164
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• 2009

이 글은 유럽을 중심으로 진행된 제2차 인구변천에 관한 논의를 검토하고, 이러한 논의가 한국 사회의 출산력 변천에 어떤 함의를 지니고 있는가를 제시하고자 한다. 제2차 인구변천에 관한 논의는 기본적으로 산업국가에서 출산력 수준이 대체수준 이하로 감소되고 있는 상황을 설명하기 위한 노력에서 출발하였다. 제1차 인구변천과 달리 제2차 인구변천은 종착점으로 인구의 균형상태를 상정하지는 않는다. 오히려 새로운 변화는 대체수준 이하의 출산력, 결혼이 아닌 다양한 형태의 삶의 양식, 결혼과 출산의 무관계성, 안정된 인구의 부재 등을 가져올 것으로 전망한다. 또한 제2차 인구변천은 이민자의 유입이 없으면 인구가 지속적으로 감소할 것이며, 저출산과 평균수명의 연장의 결과로 인해 제1차 인구변천이론에 의해 예측된 인구보다 고령화될 것으로 전망한다. 제2차 인구변천에 대한 논의는 인구변천을 겪고 있는 유럽 국가들의 인구학적 변화를 밝히는데 중요할 뿐만 아니라 한국 사회의 인구학적 변화를 설명하는데 중요한 근거를 제공할 것으로 기대된다. 한국의 제2차 인구변천에서 두드러지게 나타나고 있는 상황은 저출산이다. 저출산 현상은 다양한 요인들이 유기적으로 연결되어 나타난 것이다. 이 중 결혼율의 감소, 초혼 연령의 상승, 이혼율의 상승, 소자녀 가치관 등 가족형성과 관련된 변수들은 저출산에 직접적으로 영향을 주는 변인으로 볼 수 있다. 이들은 제2차 인구변천 내용에 포함된 인구학적 변수들과 크게 다르지 않다. 다만 이러한 변인들에 영향을 주는 요인들이 유럽 사회와 다르게 작동하고 있는 것으로 보인다. 인구학적 변인 이외에 양성평등의 관념, 노동시장의 불안정성, 자녀 양육 및 교육 비용 등은 한국 사회의 저출산을 이해하는데 상대적으로 설명력이 큰 변인으로 볼 수 있다.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.188-195
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• 2022

Purpose: With the first generation of marriage-based immigrant women in East Asia now reaching their middle or old age, the need to focus investigations on their health-related quality of life has arisen. This study aimed to examine the extent to which physical and mental health, and psychosocial variables can predict health-related quality of life among Japanese middle-aged immigrant women. Methods: This study has a descriptive cross-sectional design. A convenience sample of 197 Japanese middle-aged marriage-based immigrant women from two regions of South Korea were recruited between December 2017 and March 2018. Participants completed self-administered questionnaires on health-related quality of life, menopausal symptoms, depression, perceived health status, disease morbidity, social support, and acculturation. The data were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression. Results: Depression was the strongest predictor of health-related quality of life, followed by perceived health status, social support, and household income. Menopausal symptoms, presence of disease, and acculturation appeared to have no additional impact on participant's health-related quality of life. Conclusion: In times of rapid growth of global migration and the aging of immigrants in new destination countries, nursing interventions and public health policies for aging marriage-based immigrant women should be prioritized to improve their mental health by facilitating social support and disease management. In addition, social and employment policies that can help immigrant women transition to a healthy midlife are needed.

• 한국가족관계학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.77-98
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• 2016

Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore perceived meanings of dating and marriage among well-educated Korean couples who were in optimal marriageable ages. Particularly, an emphasis was placed on finding out where the traditional gender norms and post-modern contexts intersect on the couples' course of dating and marriage. Method: We undertook a qualitative analysis of 8 couples (age: 26-34) dating. Participants were limited to university graduates of upper-middle rank universities in Seoul, South Korea. The rationale for choosing such sample was based on the idea that characteristics of class is inherent in the act of dating and marriage, and that such characteristics lead to different contextual experiences in dating and marriage. This study was based on interviews conducted over a three-month time span. The interviews were first transcribed into research text and then subjects and key categories were drawn from the transcripts for analysis. Results: Participants sought meanings of joy, learning, and self-improvement in dating, and they were free from traditional gender norms in their romantic relationships. They viewed marriage as having a permanent companionship with their partner, becoming independent from their parents, and/or a social norm to be followed. Participants reported mixed perceptions about marriage in such fashion that they described their parents' relationship in terms of a gendered leader-supporter relationship, while viewing their own relationship as being genderless partners. In transition to parenthood, however, they regressed to traditional gender norms dichotomized as women being a homemaker and men being a breadwinner. In sum, participants displayed expectations that were inconsistent with regard to dating and marriage over the study period. That is, during the course of dating and early marriage, they did not hold separated gender norms; however, when transitioning from being a newly married couple to giving their first childbirth, expectations shifted to traditional gender norms and values. Conclusion: This suggests that it is not marriage, but the experience of childbirth and motherhood, which strengthen traditional gendered norms, engendering regeneration of the gender norms in families. The results indicate that there is a need to promote co-parenting behavior among the newly-married couples and to educate gender equality about parent roles or for parents in South Korea so that they can overcome traditional gendered norms in family.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.51-75
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• 2016

This study focuses on the life experience of married women in their 30s to 40s who have experienced parental divorce. For a comprehensive understanding towards the women, this study takes a life history research approach. The participants of this research are 8 women who have experienced parental divorce and are now married with children. The data were gathered through in-depth interviews and were analyzed through the spiral of analysis, following the process of Wolcott's "description, analysis, and interpretation." The results of this study are as follows. First, participants experienced emotions such as fear, anger, and lack of affection. Second, parenting attitude and parental divorce had negative effects on the participants' formation and development of self concept and in turn, participants experienced anxiety and withdrawal from interpersonal relationships. Some had difficulties in concentrating on their schoolwork, which was caused by psychological effects from their instable home environments and some were negligent at school due to their parents' indifference or as an act of rebellion towards them. Third, although participants displayed interest towards the opposite sex, fear towards the opposite sex or unrealistic expectations led to difficulties in forming relationships. Participants also confessed that although they married so that they could escape their original family and form a new happy one, they experienced a rocky start at the beginning of their marriage. Fourth, parental divorce had a lifelong impact on children. Even after the children became adults, parental divorce affected each key stage of transition in life such as dating, choosing one's spouse, marriage, and child rearing. Fifth, participants displayed a strong attachment to life under the assumption that only they themselves can be depended on. This led to their strong commitments to a successful marriage without the possibility of divorce. In conclusion, parental divorce is not a transitory or incidental event. Rather, it becomes a part of the children's lives with lifelong implications.

• 한국인구학
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.3-42
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• 1983

The purposes of this paper is to introduce a technique for construction of nuptiality tables using proportion single of synthetic cohorts between times at two consecutive censuses, and to observe patterns of change in marriage habit of Korean through the nuptiality tables for single population from 1925 to 1980. In this paper abridged gross and net nuptiality tables for single population of Korea have been constructed for the four quinquinial period: 1925-1930, 1955-1960, 1970-1975, and 1975-1980. Significant time trend has been observed in the nuptiality rates among the single population. The major findings observed in each table are as follows; (1)During 1925-1930, the rates are initially small, but increase rapidly until they reach a maximum at ages 25-29 for bachelors and 20-24 for spinsters, following which they are still in high level. (2)During 1955-1960, the age pattern of nuptiality begins to change; for female population, the rates increase rapidly in the same pattern as in l925-l930 untill they reach the highest level at ages 25-29, after which they gradually decline. During the period, however, there were an unprecedented high level of marriage rates for male population at a relatively later ages. (3)During 1970-1975, Korea had experienced a transition in marriage habits; at this times, nuptiality rates for both sexes showed the same pyramid shaped patterns as in western countries as age increases. The mean ages at marriage for both sexes also reached the highest level of 27.5 years for males and 24.1 years for females. (4)During 1975-1980, the age patterns of nuptiality showed almost the same patterns as in 1970-1975. In the later age group, however, age-specific marriage rates for both sexes greatly declined compared to the level of 1970-1975, while the rate in age group of 20-24 for male population greatly increased.

• Perspectives in Nursing Science
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.1-20
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• 2009

This research examines, based on nursing's point of view, the current status and problems of the healthcare-related multi-cultural policy which is one of the major issues of contemporary Korea. Today, Korean society is facing a drastic increase of migrant workers and marriage for migration in Korea that leads to the transition to multiculturalism. Each field of society is providing prevalent supports to solve the problems of multicultural families and to promote adoption to Korean society. The activities and researches for multicultural families in nursing area were found and analyzed. 11 researches and 2 books were published. Among these 13 publications, 10 were on the marriage with immigrant women. 8 researches out of 11 (72.7%) were defined as the descriptive surveys, and 3 researches (27.3%) were defined as quasi-experimental studies. Although Korea Nurses Association (KNA) led various activities, more researches and activities by nurses and nursing scholars are required to contribute in improving the health of multicultural families.