The purposes of this study are to investigate the living environments, focused on economic and housing environments, of the elderly households in Chungbuk and to provide for the suggestions from the perspective of the well-being of the elderly. The results are as follows: for the economic environment, 70% of the elderly households receive the economic help from children, but the amount of the help is not much. Less than 20% of the households receive the pension and public assistance. Most elderly households had more assets than debt. The households tend to spend more for the necessties than for the non-necessities. The higher the income, the more the assets and the higher the consumption expenditures the higher is the life satisfaction. Therefore it is necessary to provide the elderly with opportunities to increase their income. For the housing environment, most elderly live in their own detached house with average size of 23 pyung. And there is 1.6 households per house. The condition of housing facilities is poor. The elderly prefer staying in the same place to moving, and invest little for their housing even though being able to afford to do so. The housing satisfaction, which is significantly influenced by the ownership the size the quality change in moving and the housing facilities, is correlated with the satisfaction of their condition as elderly households and their living satisfaction. Therefore, thoughtful policy is required to improve the standard of housing condition for the elderly households.

The purpose of this study is to suggest the solutions for policy related to estimating the household work to be set up. In this study the damages to housewife are compared in the viewpoints of the insurance company and the victim. And this study criticizes the unfairness in judging wife's contribution to matrimonial property in case of divorce. So for the future studies decisions to the concept of housewife the survey method for time-use data and the substitute wage are needed. And for setting up the policy continuous and objective discussion about the matter interest of the parties concerned and consensus of public opinion and the reform of image about the family nd household work are needed.

This Study is to investigate relationship between the consciousness of values in the family household abilities of female university students and on identification of the relationship with there to phenomena. Data was collected for 536 students. Through a structured questionnaire data were analyzed by frequency distribution percentage mean ANOVA Duncan's multiple range test t-test and Pearson's correlation coefficients. Major findings are as follows: 1) The consciousness of values in the family of female university students showed a modern tendency in general. 2) Most subjects showed below medium level of household abilities(48.6 point out of a possible 100) proving to be relatively lower. 3) There were significant correlations between the consciousness of values in the family with respect to household abilities of female university students.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the husbands perceive home management behavior performed by wives and how much they are satisfied with it. This study also is to find out the variables affecting husbands' perception and satisfaction of it. The major findings were as follows: 1) The husbands perceived that wives are somewhat efficiently performing the home management(mean score:3.84 out of 5) and they are rather satisfied with wives' home management behavior(mean score; 3.69 out of 5). 2) The variables which affect husbands' perception of home management bahavior performed by wives and their satisfaction of it are husbands' age family life cycle and wives' health status. 3) The husbands' satisfaction of home management are influenced more by the husbands' perception about wives' home management behavior than by the demographic variables

The purposes of this study were to examine; 1) the difference of the amount between husbands' and wife's leisure time in dual-earner household. 2) the relationship between leisure time of each spouse and selected demographic/socioeconomic measures and use of time in paid work and household work. Empirical survey was conducted by using structured questionaire and time-diary. The sample of this study were 98 dual-earner couples. The major findings were that; 1) the leisure time of husbands and wives were not significantly different on weekday. But husbands had significantly more leisure time than wives on Sunday : husband's mean minutes equal 444, while wife's mean minutes equal 350. 2) on weekday time spent in paid work and household work leisure time of spouse were significantly related to the leisure time of both husband and wife. In addition paid worktime of spouse was significantly related to the leisure time of husband. On Sunday household worktime leisure time of spouse w re significantly related to the leisure time of both husband and wife. 3) on weekday selected sociodemographic measures were not significantly related to the leisure time of both husband and wife. On Sunday degree of wife's education husband's income were significantly related to the leisure time of wife and age of younger child was significantly related to the leisure time of husband.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the attitudes of parents on home education and soundness of home life. The samples were composed of 629 home educators selected by family life cycle and local distribution. Consequently the findings of this study were that self-confident attitudes on home education have a significant effect on soundness of home life. Also soundness of home life depend on fathers participation in home education.

The major purpose of this study was to find the influencing factors in explaining search patterns of product attributes in formation and to find if significant differences exist in search outcomes by search patterns. The data for this study were collected in a survey and the final sample consisted of 327 respondents purchased refrigerator 340 purchased bed. The important findings of this study are as follows: First the variables related to search cost-benefit play an important role in identifying search patterns for each of product attributers. The findings of this study provide some implications regarding consumer education programs and consumer information providing policies.

While theories of portfolio selection have been developed very little is known about how individuals actually go about constructing their asset potfolios. This study investigates empirically the characteristics of household's assets and which factor associated with risky and safe asset amount. Data used in this study consisted of 2,164 households and the statistics employed to analyze the data are univariate procedure Logit analysis and OLS. The results of this study were as follows: Among 2,164 households 505 housholds(23.3%) had risky assets. Average risky asset amount is 8,351,500 won and average safe asset amount is 7,086,900 won. Region education and occupation of household head home ownership transfer and other income and total expenditure had significant effects on either and other income and total expenditure had significant effects on either household having risky asset or safe asset. Financial income transfer and other income and total expenditure had significantly p sitive relation with the risky asset amount. Whereas age and the occupation of household head the sense of economic wellbeing earned financial tranfer and other income and total expenditure had significantly positive relation with safe asset amount.

The purpose of this study was to analyze a path model that investigated the relations among leisure expenditure leisure satisfaction and life satisfaction. For this purpose conceptual framework based on previous studies was suggested. The sample in this study consisted of 3,519 urban married couple living in Korea. Statistics employed for the analysis were frequencies means multiple regression and path annalysis. Empirical tests' results showed some evidence has been provided that supported the conceptual framework. In husband's model the household's leisure expenditure had vital direct effect on the husband's leisure satisfaction while it had not any effect on the husband's life satisfaction. Also in wife's model the household leisure expenditure had statistically significant direct effect on wife's life satisfaction however there was not any effect that mediated through wife's leisure satisfaction.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of the proporation of household expenditure item and the subjective burden of household due to the private educational expenses. The data used in this study included 761 housewives who have a child of the second grade or fourth grade of primary-school in Seoul. The findings of this study are as follows: First these six variables-educational level of mother household income place of residence grade of child number of child and the expected educational level of child-have significant effects on the private educational expenses. Second the proporation of food expense housing expense clothing expense and miscellaneous expense significantly differ with respect to the private educational expenses. Generally the proporation of household expenditure item and subjective burden are influenced more by the private educational expenses for school work than by the private educational expenses for talent.

This study examined the effects of social support on the perceived life satisfaction of middle-aged wives. To better understand the effects of social support on the perceived life satisfaction of middle-aged wives this study considered the following four different types of social support: emotional material informational and companionshp support. In addition each type of social support from the following five sources-the family of origin network the family of husband network friends neighbors and social organization-were examined separately in relation to the perceived life satisfaction of middle-aged wives. The data for his study were collected in the winter of 1995 from 417 housewives in Pusam wholse youngest child has graduated from elementary schools. Analyses of these data proved that (1) contrary to the classical "middle-age cristis" theory the average level of the perceived life satisfaction of middle-aged wives is relatively high; (2) there is a strong positive correla ion between the global level of social support and the overall life satisfaction of middle-aged wives; (3) the family of origin network is the most important provider of social support to middle-aged wives; and (4) the effects of social support on the perceived life satisfaction of middle-aged wives differ across types and sources of support. Findings showed that emotional informational and companionship support from the family of origin network have significantly positive effects on the perceived life satisfaction of middle-aged wives. On he other hand the material support from the family of origin network proved to have little effect.le effect.

The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in the rural housewives' resourcs and demands financial practices and financial satisfaction according to family life cycle and to analyze the causal relationships among the components. For the latter purpose the conceptual framework based on the system theory was suggested. The results showed that first most variables were significantly different according to the family life cycle. Second except the establishing stage the conceptual framework was supported in all stages. Variables which affected financial practices and financial satisfaction varied with the family life cycle.

This study examined the time allocation pattern of farm wives. In particular it addressed i)the differences in extent of time spent in farming housework child care and leisure between on-farm and off-farm seasons ii)differences in the extent of time spent in such activities among farm wives and urban wives and iii) the determinants of time spent in such activities. To achieve these goals a system of time allocation equations based on household production theory was employed. On hundred and eight farm wives wiere selected in 1993 by the methods of judgement sampling and cluster sampling. Two major questions in the survey elicited sociodemographic information and time-use of farm wives using the time-diary method, The results indicate that farm wives different decisions about how to allocate their time to farming housework child care leisure during on-farm and off-farm seasons. In addition it was that farm wives are more likely to have dual responsibilities than are urban wives. Finally in the off-farm season education number of younger children and region were significant variables in explaining the time allocation decisions of farm wives. However only age was a significant factor in their time allocation decisions during the on-farm season. This leads one to conclude that time allocation is not a choice for farm wives in the on-farm season.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation and the influence of the environmental education and the environmental awareness on environmental awareness behavior of consumer. the finding were as follows; The environmental awareness behavior of consumer had significant difference according to degree of education and house pattern but had no significant difference according to state of job. The environmental education had significant difference all type in environmental awareness behavior of consumer but the environmental awareness had significant difference except II(behavior of purchase in green product), The correlation among the environmental education the environmental awareness and the environmental awareness behavior of consumer was very high but the environmental education and type II in the environmental awareness behavior of consumer was very. low The environmental education and the environmental awareness had direct and indirect influence on the envir nmental awareness behavior of consumer expect type II.

The purpose of this study is to classify the expenditure behaviors of housewives into some types and to identify the characteristics of the types focucing on diverse expenditure behaviors of urban households. In this study it is assumed that the expenditure behaviors are classified by there factors-(1)the orientation of money saving (2)the orientation of time saving and (3)the orientation of others. The present study suggests following three questions. (1). Can the expenditure behaviors of urban housewives be classified according to the orientation of money saving the orientation of others? (2) What distictions exist among the types? (3) Which variables are useful in classifying the expenditure behaviors? For empirical analysis the data of the study was collected from 650 housewives living in Seoul. The statistical methods adopted for data analysis are frequency percentage mean Pearson's correlation coefficient factor analysis cluster analysis one way ANOVA Duncun's multiple ran e test and discriminant analysis. As the major findings 4 types were extracted, According to the level of each dimensions the names for the each type were given as "the type of attaching importance to money saving" "the type of attaching importance to time and appearance" "the type of attaching importance to money saving and time" "the type of attaching importance to money saving and time" "the type of attaching importance to money saving and time" "the type of attaching importance to money saving and appearance" In "the type of attaching importance to money saving" the significant portion of housewives have high school degrees and compared with other types this type includes more husbands having sales and service job 55% of housewives of "The type of attaching importance to time and appearance" have graduate or higher degrees. The significant part of earned incomes range from 3 million won to 5 million won. The rate of housewives employed in the professional job is higher than other types. In "The type of attaching importance to money saving and time" the rate of the employment of housewives in this type is the highest among the types. In "The type of attaching importance to money saving and appearance" the significant portion of housewives have graduate degrees. In the jobs of he spouses the management job is major. The consciousness of belonging to the middle class is higher than other types. In this type the level of education is high but that of income is not. The result of the discriminant analysis says that the earned income and the consciousness of belonging to a calss are the most critical variables to classify the expenditure behaviors into 4 type The accuray of the classification of the discrimination equation composed of these variables is 47,5% The accuracy is improved by 10%.

The purpose of this study was to compare the financial status between Aged Households and Non-aged households. The sample obtained from 1993 KHPS, consisted of 3,425 Korean married couples including 2,915 of non-aged households and 510 aged households. Statistics employed for the analysis were frequencies percentile and t-test And Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient were used to compare the financial status of two groups. The results of this study were as follows. First financial status of aged households specially annual total income annual current income earned income and annual total expenditure were lower than those of non-aged households. Second Gini-coefficients of aged households' income and expenditure were greater than expenditure of them. Moreover Gini-coefficients of aged households' total asset and total debt were greater than those of non-aged households' However total asset of aged and non-aged households were smaller than total debt of two groups.

This study regarded the marital problem solving as the process of ego states marital problem perception and marital problem solving behaviors and was to verify that the match of husband and wife in that process differed in marital adjustment, The subjects of the study were 225 married couples for 1-10 years. The results of the study were summarized as following: 1) Husband/wife's marital adjustments differed in a accordance with marital problem solving behavior matches between husband and wife. 2) Marital problems solving behaviors were the most effected by marital problem perception and were indirectly effected by ego states. Particularly marital problem solving behaviors was the more effec ted by perception of husband than of wife.