• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.105-120
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to analyze on effects of midlife ego-identity and crisis on quality of life in married women. The data were obtained through 394 midwife married women who live in Kwangju and Chonnam. The results were as follows. (1) The mean scores of ego-identity and quality of life were higher than the medium point. The mean scores of crisis was a little lower than the medium. (2) The ego-identity was significantly influenced by religion, health condition, social intimacy, marital relations, and parent-child relations. The crisis was influenced significantly by income, health condition, marital relations, and ego-identity. And the quality of life was influenced significantly by religion, health condition, marital relations, parent-child relations, and crisis. (3) On the result of path analysis, religion, health condition, marital relations, parent-child relations, and crisis directly influenced the Quality of life. Besides, income, social intimacy, and ego-identity indirectly affected the quality of life.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.81-100
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• 2000

The purpose of this study was to develop the framework for the relapse prevention program. The study examined interventional needs for a relapse prevention program among adult substance abusers. The total of 107 adult substance abusers were surveyed and asked about their interventional needs for the relapse prevention program. The questionnaire was developed by the researcher on the basis of several theories such as problem behavior theory, ecologica1-developmental theory, social support theory, and coping theory. Results showed that admit substance abusers wanted the program to deal with such issues related with individual, family, social skills, and drugs. The implications of study findings were discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.83-98
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• 2009

he purpose of this study was to assess if the availability of the family-friendly corporate welfare programs had an effect on job satisfaction of married female employees after controlling for other factors such as job, personal and household characteristics. This study analyzed 215 working mothers who had the children under 6 years of age using the Korea Labor Panel Data(2005). The study established that married female employees working in the companies with more family-friendly corporate welfare programs exhibited higher job satisfaction on working hours, communication and human Relationships and other fringe benefits. Therefore, we recommended that family-friendly corporate welfare programs should be more available and developed in order to promote better job satisfaction for married female employees.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 2007

This study focuses on the relationship between ethnic identity of Asian-Americans and their appreciation of their ethnic body features, based on reference group theory. A convenience sample of 60 male and 52 female students from various Asian ethnicities attending a mid-western university was used for the study. A 2 (gender) by 2 (ethnic identification) by 2 (socializing group) analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) on body image satisfaction as dependent variable and Body Mass Index score as a covariate was conducted. A significant main effect of ethnic identification was found, which indicates the more respondents identified with their ethnic group, the more likely they were to be satisfied with their appearance. The social group affiliation main effect was not significant. The impact of ethnic identification was significant only for those respondents who socialize more with Americans than with Asians. The results support the idea that one's ethnic group functions as a reference group, which influences body image appraisals.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.115-125
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to compare emotional problems, the related risk factors, and protective factors of impoverished children with those of enriched children in order to examine the effects of the related factors, and to suggest practical interventions and the functions of the social welfare service. Participants for this study were 458 students in the 4th, 5th and 6th grade of elementary school located in the Metropolitan area. The major findings were as follows: First, impoverished children had more emotional problems compared with enriched children. Second, poverty was found to influence the emotional problems of children. Third, concerning the relation between a family's poverty and the emotional problems of children, the finding is that eating habits, parents' health problems and marital conflict are mediating-factors.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.85-97
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• 1987

The purpose of this study was to establish the hierarchy of housing values. Housing values were hygienic, safety, convenience of near environment, social affiliation oriented, self-actualization, aesthetic, and prestige. A final instrument was developed through two stage pilot surveys. The respondents were 1292 homemakers of middle and high economic class in Seoul and Daejeon, selected through stratified randon sampling technique. Data were collected during March and April 1986, and analyzed using SPSS and SAS computer packages. The statistics used were frequency, percentage, Guttman's reproducibility coefficient. The major finding were as follows; The hierachy of housing values was established with Guttman's coefficient of reproducibility. 94. Those were hygienic value, safety value, convenience of near environment value, aesthetic value, social affiliation oriented value, self-actualization value, prestige value in order.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.42 no.12 s.202
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• pp.31-54
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• 2004

The purpose of this research is to exam the attitudes of elderly people to dating. This research also investigates the differences of the elderly's attitudes to dating based on demographic, family relation, and social relation variables. Attitudes to elderly dating in this study included the perception, necessity, and difficulty of elderly dating. The sample consisted of 689 elderly Korean people. Data were analyzed by frequencies, mean, standard deviation, Chi-square test, t-test, and F-test. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences in elderly attitudes to dating according to demographic, family relation, and social relation variables. The findings of this study are described in the results section and the implications of these research findings are discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.45-56
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• 1994

This paper reports about possibility of the elder abuse as a third vulnerable population among family violence in Korea. Although the study of against the elderly has not been reported in our society the need for information about the nature of elder abuse is clear with social change. There will be profound changes in our culture which in recent decades has been largerly dominated in our family. This paper will be explained some theoretical perspectives; Social learning theory Symbolic interaction theory, Exchange theory and factors related to the occurrence of elder abuse; 1) personal characteristics of the abuser and the abused 2)interpersonal characteristics of the relationship between the abuser and the elderly person 3) situational factors that increase the likelihood of abuse 4) socio-cultural factors that impinge on the use of violence. According to them the patterns and other predictions of elder abuse will be pointed.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.41-56
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to find the general trends of sexual harassment at workplace and to investigate the differences of related variables. The data were obtained through 880 employee living in Chonbuk-Province. The major findings were as follows-1) 70.3% of respondent reported that they had experienced the victimization of sexual harassment at workplace at least once. But most respondents reacted passively to the sexual harassment. 2) Most respondents perceived broadly the definition of sexual harassment and attributed sexual harassment to the social structure. The level of perception about the existence of the institution and the law for the sexual harassment problem was low. 3) The most important variable in the experience of sexual harassment was the ideology of sex-role division. 4) The more respondents experienced sexual harassment, the more they demanded the preventive education of sexual harassment .

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.41-54
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• 1999

This study focused on the coping behavior and perceived economic well-being of the housing-subsidized single-mother family. The major findings were as follows: 1. Single mothers who had higher level of income, education, and self-esteem tended to have better coping behaviors. 2. Internally oriented single mothers had better coping behaviors. 3. Single mothers who had high level of income, job satisfaction, and social support perceived their income more adequately. 4. Single mothers who were satisfied with job, social support and child relationship reported a high level of economic satisfaction. 5. Single mothers who had high score in coping behavior tended to have a high level of perceived economic well-being.