• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.191-199
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• 2004

The main purpose of this study was to examine the impact of religious participation on the depression of elder adults in USA. Specifically, this study examined how the influence of religious participation varied according to continuity or discontinuity of participation. Data from N=1,658 adults aged 65-90 who were respondents to two waves of the U.S. National survey of Families and Households 1987-1993 were used for these analyses. Depression was measured with a 12-item (of the original 20) modified version of the CES-D (Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression). Multivariate regression models controlling for several demographic variables were estimated. Some clear evidence was found supporting activity theory and continuity theory That is, participating in a religious organization role at Time 2 but not Time 1 (T1 No - T2 Yes) and being continuously involved in religious organizations both at Time 1 and Time 2 (T1 Yes -T2 Yes) were associated with reduced depression, compared to continuous nonparticipation in religious organizations (71 No -72 No).

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.23-42
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to explore a typology of leisure participation, investigate determinants of leisure participation types, and analyze differences in life satisfaction by the types of leisure participation of the elderly. The data source for this research was the 2014 Time Use Survey conducted by the Korea National Statistical office (KNSO). The statistical methods for the analysis were mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, Duncan test, cluster analysis, and logistic regression analysis. Leisure participation were classified into five types based on five categories; social activities, religious activities, media, sports, time-spending activity. The five types were named "general", "insufficient", "religious oriented", "media oriented", and sports oriented" type. Gender, health condition were identified as important determinants for the types. Life satisfaction was different according to leisure participation type of the elderly. Religious oriented type showed the highest score of life satisfaction and media oriented type showed the lowest.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.31-43
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• 2018

There is a large amount of empirical literature reporting that people who regularly attend religious services tend to have better health outcomes. However, it remains an unanswered question as to whether the observed correlation reflects any causality. Exploiting exogenous changes in church attendance driven by law changes in 21 states of the U.S., I find tentative but suggestive evidence that the observed strong correlation between religious participation and health is likely to be driven by endogenous selection.

• 대순사상논총
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• 제19권
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• pp.193-211
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• 2005

Korean religionist have actively participated in the movements of national security and peace, human rights and dignity, freedom and equal rights, and other social issues. Recently, either progressive or conservative religionists have strongly shown their different approaches in solving social issues, i.e., national security and peace in connection of 'national security law.' A few religious leaders' public views have been misused by some politicians. It is important for both the religionists and journalists in religious newspapers how to bring a harmonious resolution among the people who are either in conservatism or in progressivism. Social participation of religionists is both to respond to the timely situation of civil society and to realize freedom, equality, and peace to the society. Although the principle of the separation of religion and state was established to secure both the right of politics and the freedom of beliefs, political groups have either utilized or suppressed religions. Some politicians have also wrongly applied separation of religion and state by excluding religious aspects in public schools. Religionists and journalists of the religious newspapers should not provide one-sided prejudice but to provide objective information and its righteous analysis to guide people in the right direction to solve social problems. Also, religious newspapers should open a field of discussion how to resolve some issues between the 'national security law' and freedom.

• 한국노년학
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.971-986
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 중·고령자의 다양한 사회활동 참여가 치매 진단의 1차적 기준이 되는 인지기능에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았으며 이를 위해 2006년 고령화 연구패널 자료를 활용하여 만 45세 이상 중·고령자들의 사회활동 참여와 인지기능 점수간의 관계를 분석하였다. 사회활동의 유형은 김영범·이승훈(2008)의 연구에서 정의한 종교활동, 여가활동, 공공집단 활동과 연고집단 활동으로 분류하였으며 인지기능을 측정하는 MMSE-K의 원점수를 분석에 사용하였고 사회경제수준과 건강수준을 통제변수로 사용하였다. 만 45세 이상 중·고령자 전체를 분석한 결과 종교활동과 여가활동이 인지기능에 유의한 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났으며 연령과 성별을 층화하여 중년 남성, 여성집단과 고령 남성, 여성집단으로 분석한 결과 중년 남성집단에서는 여가활동이 유의하였으며 중년 여성에서는 4가지 사회활동이 모두 유의하지 않았다. 고령 남성과 여성에서는 종교활동과 여가활동이 모두 인지기능에 유의한 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났으며 고령 여성의 공공집단 활동 참여가 인지기능에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 연구의 결과를 통해 중년자들의 사회활동 참여보다 고령자의 종교활동과 여가 활동의 참여가 인지기능 장애와 치매예방에 더 긍정적인 영향을 준다고 볼 수 있으며 이를 근거로 노인들이 건전한 여가활동을 누릴 수 있도록 체계적인 정책과 지원의 확대가 필요하다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.93-102
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• 2008

In Korea, a movement for forming intentional communities is gathering people's interests to improve individualistic living environment, and to create a humanistic lifestyle. However, it is difficult to say if its management is successful or not, because intentional community is just in the experimental stage in Korea. The purpose of this study is to identify actual condition of residents' participation in forming process, shared activities in their daily lives, residents' regulation, common facilities and its management in order to offer basic information for revitalization of intentional communities in Korea. 7 intentional communities including eco-friendly villages, religious communities and a cooperative housing community were collected as the study objects. Upon analysis, those communities were divided into two groups according to their purpose of establishment; "HC (Housing-life focused Community includes cooperative housing community and eco-friendly community)" and "IC (Ideology focused Community includes ideology community and religious community)" in order to identify difference in residents' participation between the two groups. In-dept interviews with representatives of 7 intentional communities by a structured questionnaire were used as study method. The findings of this study are as follows; In general, more active residents' participation is identified in ICs than in HCs. There is no common house, which is considered as essential in intentional community, in HCs, while it was facilitated in all ICs. Role of leader seems more important in ICs than in HCs. About the ownership of housing and land, private owned is common in HCs, while community owned is common in ICs. Shared activities and residents' regulations are evidently less in most HCs than in ICs. Furthermore, in order to run a community sustainable, it is crucial to encourage sense of community among residents, and developing common house and activity programs. Common house design, which can promote proactive residents' participation in shared activity should be studied fitted to Korean circumstances. Above all, proactive participation in the shared activities is one of the most important factors in intentional community.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.111-119
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• 2022

Boredom is considered anxiety and is an experience accompanied by a lack of meaning because the need for meaning is not met. It is the pain that people feel without using their mind, and the suffering that people fall into the absence of desire. On the other hand, religious activities give people meaning in life, which reduces the tendency to feel bored. This study investigates whether there is a difference in boredom depending on whether individuals participate in religious activities, and to verify whether the meaning in life mediates the relationships between religious activities and boredom. We predicted that if individuals engaged in religious activities, the meaning in life would increase, and they would be less bored than those who did not. A total of 82 college students participated in this study. Results showed that there were significant differences in the meaning in life and boredom between the two groups according to whether they participated in religious activities or not. The group actively participating in religious activities had significantly higher meaning in life and lower boredom than the non-religious group. Second, the meaning in life significantly mediated the relationship between religious activities and boredom. We conclude that active participation in religious activities can increase the meaning in life and ultimately reduce boredom. Based on the results of this study, the implications and suggestions for follow-up studies are discussed.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.61-73
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• 2005

This study aims to examine the socio-demographic heterogeneity of community participation in rural Korea. Data was collected through interviews with 1,870 rural householders and housewives who have lived in Up or Myen as an administrative unit of rural communities, and analyzed by the SPSS/PC Win V.10 program. The statistical techniques used for this study were frequency and percentile. The major findings of this study were as follows. Firstly, the extent to which rural people have participated in community organizations were: cooperative groups, $80.8\%$; religious groups, $20.6\%$; learning groups, $12.7\%$; political groups, $9.8\%;$ civil groups $6.7\%$; and voluntary groups, $5.3\%$. Whereas the numbers were high for community participation in groups related to agricultural production, participation in civil and voluntary groups were lower. Secondly, it showed that people who lived in urbanized and high population density areas were more likely to participate in community groups. The diversity of community organizations was different according to the level of rurality. Thirdly, farm householders were more likely to participate in religious, civil and voluntary groups than non-farm householders. Fourthly, people with higher education, females, those in the 40 to 50 age groups were more likely to participate in community organizations. Fifthly, even though men are more likely to participate in political parties, women were more likely then men to agree that women should participate in political parties. This empirical study could support the results of Sundeen (1988) and Wilson and Musick (1997) in that education was related positively to community participation. In addition, we concluded that community participation in a rural development process has two main considerations: philosophical and pragmatic. This implies that there is room for government to enable and facilitate 'true' community participation. That can be done through policy reform which creates a permissive environment for community decision-making and input, in addition to simply supporting community development through financial assistance.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.212-221
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• 2020

본 연구는 종교유무 및 종교활동 참여수준이 노인의 삶의 만족도에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지 확인하는데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 노동패널조사 20차 자료를 기반으로, 65세 이상 노인 3,261명을 대상으로 기술통계분석, 평균차이분석, 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 종교의 유무는 노인의 삶의 만족도에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미치지 못했다. 둘째, 종교활동 참여수준은 노인의 삶의 만족도에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 즉, 종교활동에 적극적으로 참여하는 노인일수록 삶의 만족도가 높았다. 셋째, 종교유형별로 보면, 기독교 노인이 불교 노인에 비해 삶의 만족도가 통계적으로 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과를 근거로 함의를 도출하고 정책적 제언을 실시하였다.

• 대순사상논총
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• 제34집
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• pp.75-105
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• 2020

不同於以往教義和文獻為主的研究方法, 本文是首次結合問卷量化, 訪談調查, 從女性參與者觀點, 制度層面的研究。2019年10月23日至26日期間, 我到驪州本部道場進行田調, 共計回收有效問卷81份。期待落實大巡真理會的發展與理念, 更進一步比較分析東亞新興宗教的女性宗教生態(niche)。本文先回顧相關大巡真理會的婦女研究, 輔以其他大巡真理會的資料。透過早期的夫人會 (1980年成立) 到社會福祉部的婦女會, 國際志工團辦公室的青年會的女學生, 理解女性在宗教慈善活動扮演的角色以及教內的養成教育。然後以性別為比較主軸, 進行問卷分析。受訪者基本資料包含性別, 年齡, 籍貫, 教育程度 ; 其宗教參與則以修行經歷和教團分工為主, 包含入道年數, 家庭信教代別, 職業分布, 教內工作, 教內職級。上述研究變項與問卷問項顯示, 性別對大巡真理會信徒在弘法佈教中的自我預期, 教內分工, 皆存在影響效果。調查顯示, 大巡真理會的女信眾無論在教育機會, 工作分配和升遷上都符合社會期待的性別角色。這種和諧互補的兩性關係, 符合教義和現代韓國的新興宗教與家庭倫理。其各項男女差距以及分布情況並未產生性別分隔的情況, 驪州本部道場受雇用的女性仍然具優勢。