• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.71-85
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to prove that interchange is the a key factor in costume style changes through case analysis in costume culture interchange, and further, to assist in gaining understanding of costume style changes of the present and the future. Study findings show that the pattern of acceptance of costume interchange was mostly integration, though it was influenced by the method of transmission. The integration is a process in which a foreign costume culture is constructively mixed into the existing one, and a factor that changes the existing costume culture.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.734-746
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of women's self-image on image evaluation of clothing self-image, and on their selection of clothing styles by situations. The subject of investigation was 500 women above 20 living in Daegu. 6 types of clothing styles including classic, casual, elegant, dramatic, romantic, and mannish and 7 social situations including shopping near house, shopping in a busy street, cultural center, wedding ceremony, dinning out, alumni meeting or fraternity meeting, and couples meeting were used for this study. Data analysis was performed using SPSS package, which included factor analysis, reliability test, cluster analysis, ANOVA, and X²-test. The results are summarized as follows. 1. Adult women could be classified into 4 groups such as the passive mannish, the passive feminine, the active mannish, and the active feminine by their self-images. 2. There were different opinions on each clothing style by self-image. In the image of each clothing style by self-image groups, the passive feminine group considered classic style having effect to make people look tall, mature and elegant style to make people look active and charming. Also, they rated the boldness of dramatic style and the activeness of mannish style high. The active feminine group estimated the boldness of mannish style high. 3. Selection of clothing style differed according to various situations. More formal the situation was, more classic style tended to be selected and for less formal situation, mannish style was selected.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.842-852
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• 2000

The purpose of this study was to classify consumer groups according to the life style dimensions and to analyze conspicuous consumption, clothing shopping motives among consumer groups, and also to clarify relationships between demographic variables and the life style, conspicuous consumption, clothing shopping motives. The subjects were 329 women in their twenties living in Seoul. For data analysis, mean, factor analysis, cluster analysis, t-test, ANOVA, Duncan test were conducted. The results were as follows ; First, consumer groups were classified into the following five subdivisions : passive group, appearance consideration/self-realization group, appearance indifference group, family oriented/economic group, achievement oriented/active group. Second, the significant differences among the classified life style groups were found in conspicuous consumption and clothing shopping motives. Third, there were significant differences in life style, conspicuous consumption, clothing shopping motives according to demographic variables like age, occupation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.34
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• pp.5-17
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• 1997

The porpose of this study was to know what kinds of clothes the elderly women preferred to wear according to their ages and body type and to pro-vide basic data for clothing design of the elderly women. Anthropometric analysis and questionnaire study wear done on 230 elderly women over sixty years, For analysis of the data One-way ANOVA and Chi-square were employed. The results of this study were as fol-lows: 1) The elderly women have a prefer-ance fore 'Front openning style' and 'Two-opiece style' which are easy to wear and prefer skirts to pants. 2) Their preference for clothes is de-pendent on their age rather than their body type. 3) The age is the decisive factor on blouse collar design neckline style sleeve ending skirt length location of zippe and waist band style when the select the clothes. 4) The body type is the decisive fa-ctor on jacket style skirt length and waist band style.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1047-1058
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• 2005

The objective of this research is an investigation and analysis of life style and preference trend for dwelling for 450 university students. The major findings are as follows: (1) The life style is classified into 3 categories according to the priority of fashion and privacy, brand and social relationship, and family and domesticity. Women give priority to fashion and privacy as well as family and domesticity than men do. (2) Dwelling awareness is grouped into 3; one for pursuing the value of asset, another with the inclination to residential transition and the other for preferring for a detached house. Women have a stronger inclination to the economical value of house and prefers to live in the big city than men do. (3) As a factor affecting the dwelling preference, men give priority to the exterior condition such as environment, but women do the interior condition like the size of house. Men and Women showed various preferences for housing style such as detached house, villa, apartment and commercial complex dwelling, which is accord with the present housing style.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-18
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• 2000

One stream of the GDSS(Group Decision Support System) research is to investigate how GDSS affects decision performances of small groups according to task types, support features, meeting facilitation modes and meeting environments. But little study has investigated the effects of group member characteristics on group decision processes and outcomes depending upon whether GDSS is provided or not. To date, most GDSS studies have not controlled group member characteristics(e,g. personality, sex, decision style) in laboratory experiments. However, this study included the decision styles of group members as an independent variable. Therefore, this study investigated how differently members of two different decision styles perceive the use of GDSS in small group meetings through lab experiments. The two decision styles are feeling(F) style and thinking(T) style. We found that the effect of GDSS is a function of individual's decision style only in the communication thoroughness variable. The decision style is a statistically significant factor that can mediate the effects of the group support technology on the perceived communication thoroughness. Specifically, the GDSS is positively related to participants' perception about satisfaction on decision process, goal achievement, communication thoroughness, degree of influence-outward and effort for achieving meeting goals.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

A purpose of this study was to find out how the casual and formal style clothes of stripe pattern giving variety by pattern direction, pattern width, and contrast coloration have an effect on image of wearers. 432 stimuli were made and 2,800 testee evaluated them using semantic differential scale. As a result, five image dimensions were drawn as a factor of attractiveness, activeness, gracefulness, visibility, and tenderness. In consequence of analysing the image difference by stripe pattern and clothing style, the stripe pattern and clothing style affect image presentation as a significant clue. And besides, as a result of positioning stimuli by image, pattern direction, coloration, and tone combination were important clues that decide image. Consequently, clothing style, stripe pattern, and contrast coloration were made clear as an efficient parameter in image presentation of clothing wearers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.79-82
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• 2005

The development of industrial society brought about the highly-aged society, facilitated urbanization and nuclear families and changed conventional society and even the values. Also, development of Information Technology is represented digital technology makes general life-style of economy, society, culture and life. This paper offers there is sense to offer aged residing zero that equip amenities, safety, convenience considering enough request of aged by change of life-style. Hereupon, architecture enemy of aged residing, I wish to quote direction of unit planning of smart silver town that is intelligence style residing space that can correspond to various life-style that bring by information society by diagnosing change factor of residing space and internal and external study trend of smart groove that extract Needs of old age by change of special Quality and life-style and appears in digital environment.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.746-752
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• 2016

In this study, we analyzed the dietary style of Chinese singles; in addition, the effect of convenience food consumption on the quality of life of singles was evaluated through construct model development on the relationship between the frequency of consumption and satisfaction with convenience food and quality of life. A statistical analysis of 153 surveys from Tianj was conducted using SPSS 12.0 for Windows and SEM using AMOS 5.0 statistics package. The reliability of the data was confirmed by an exploratory factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The measurement model was confirmed as appropriate by a confirmatory factor analysis of the measurement model in conjunction with AMOS. The results of a factor analysis were as follows. Dietary style was categorized into four factors. The level of satisfaction with convenience food was categorized into seven factors and quality of life was categorized into four factors. The reliability of these findings was supported by a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.6 and higher for all the factors. For the level of satisfaction with convenience food based on dietary style and the quality of life of singles, a structural equation model was constructed and analyzed. The results of all tests indicated that the model satisfied the recommended level of goodness of fit index and thus, the overall research model was appropriate. The current study highlights the increased interest in eating habits of singles and is necessary for further improvement in nutrition education.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.23 no.3 s.99
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• pp.327-336
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• 2007

Life-style factors often include social relationships as well as consumption, entertainment and dress patterns. They also typically reflect an individual's attitudes, values and worldview. Life-style types have become and an important factor for segmenting customer markets ever since significant relationships between life-style and customers' behavior was proven. This study examined the relationships between the life-styles of young customers' and the important attributes of foodservice encounters. Factors analysis with VARIMAX and K-means cluster analysis were conducted to group the subjects by life-style. According to the factors analysis, four underlying dimensions were identified and labeled: (1) 'actively fashioned', (2) 'luxury picky', (3) 'healthy toward', and (4) 'utilitarian leisure'. Based on the factor scores derived from the factors analysis, the K-means cluster analysis classified three groups as statistically significant using ANOVA(p<0.05). The overall mean score for the 3rd cluster 'trendy-active picky' was higher than the other two clusters, and represented very picky attitudes about foodservice attributes. The 3rd cluster also seemed to apply higher standards to all of the foodservice attributes. By order of importance, the most important attributes of the 2nd cluster 'pursue-utilitarian leisure' were food serving time, automation systems, server's hygienes, employee kindness, time in line, and menu variety. In spite of low concerns for the life-style attributes, the first cluster 'passively indifferent' recognized menu variety, food sanitation, food serving time, server's hygiene, menu price, air circulation, and room temperature as important. These results suggest that young diners in Korea could be classified by their diverse life-styles that are represented as trendy, utilitarian, and indifferent and will hopefully contribute to the foodservice industry's ability to segment customer characteristics by different life-styles in Korea.