• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.52
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• pp.63-87
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• 2003

Our society has had a growing interest in a family volunteering activity which has been proposed to be helpful to strengthen the health of the families. Thus this could be a new alternative strategy for motivating a family life as well as activating a volunteering activity which takes a major portion in the source for social welfare, as a precautionary measure against various social problems. This research therefore studied the effects of the family volunteering activity on the status of family health on the purpose for providing social work implications to activate family volunteering and to enhance the degree of family health. The study subjects were whole family members in Korea (n=494) who had participated in a family volunteering program more than 6 months (experimental group). The control subjects (n=534) were from family members without having an experience in a family volunteering program (control group). The results demonstrated that experimental group experiencing family volunteering activities represents significantly higher status of family health regarding all the study fields, e.g., family values in common, autonomy or flexibility for family, family commitment, communication within a family, family oriented problem-solving ability, compared with control group. Even the cases of control group which were regularly engaged in the social activities together, showed the lower status of family health, as compared with families having experiences in the family volunteering activity. Accordingly, family volunteering experiences has taken more favorable influences upon the status of family health than any other family activities. Therefore, the present study suggests as follows for activating family volunteering activities: 1) the development and management of programs suitable for the voluntary activities of a family unit; 2) the flexible application of the concept of family volunteering; 3) the necessity of connection between various institutions which perform family volunteering services; 4) flexible work system based on individuality getting ready for the time for the family volunteering activity; and 5) the development of the circumstances for family members who need to be taken care of.

• Journal of Family Relations
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.3-29
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• 2018

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the acceptance of family diversity among college students and related variables. Method: Data were collected by a structured questionnaire with 280 students who attended in three universities located in J province. SPSS Statistics Program version 24.0 was used to analyze the collected data. To answer the research questions, descriptive statistics, t-test, F-test, Pearson's correlation analyses, and regression analyses were performed. Results: The major results of the survey were summarized as below. First, the acceptance of family diversity among college students was slightly higher than the middle level(M=12.11). Most students accepted nuclear family as a typical family. More than half of the students accepted single parent families, adaptive families, step families, unmarried mother families, childless couples, homosexual families, elderly women living alone, and families composed of siblings as a family. Second, there was a significant difference by religiosity. Students without religion were higher than their counterparts with religion in a level of family diversity acceptance. Among the individual factors, third, a level of traditional family value had a significant negative effect on a level of family diversity acceptance. And perspective taking had a positive effect on a level of family diversity acceptance. Fourth, among the family factors, parent-child open communication did not affect a level of family diversity acceptance. However, parents' gender egalitarian beliefs had a significant positive effect on a level of family diversity acceptance. Lastly, regarding the relative effects of the personal and family factors, the traditional family value had the largest effect on a level of family diversity acceptance among college students. Conclusions: Base on these results, the implications and limitations of the study were discussed.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.50-59
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• 2018

Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the nutritional status in Korean children eating breakfast together as a family or skipping breakfast from the 2013 ~ 2015 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). Methods: A total of 1,393 subjects (boys = 731, girls = 662), aged 6 ~ 11 years, were presented with a 24 hr-recall method, and classified according to their eating breakfast together as a family or skipping breakfast; and eating breakfast together as a family (EBF group; boys = 580, girls = 548), eating breakfast alone (EBA group; boys = 100, girls = 67), and skipping breakfast (SB group; boys = 51, girls = 47). Results: In the boys, the SB group had a significantly lower carbohydrate (p = 0.0198) and vitamin C (p = 0.0219) density, and a higher fat (p = 0.0020) density than the EBF and EBA groups. In both boys and girls, the EBF and EBA groups showed a significantly larger number of dishes in breakfast than the SB group (p < 0.0001, respectively). In boys, the EBF group showed a significantly higher number of foods in breakfast than the EBA and SB groups (p < 0.0001). Conclusion: Children eating breakfast together as a family may be associated with a variety of food intake than children eating breakfast alone and skipping breakfast.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Food and Cookery Science Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.83-83
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• 2003

현대 사회에서의 식생활 양상은 다양성, 편리성을 추구하는 경향을 나타내고 있으며 또한 핵가족 및 독신자 가족 중대 등 가족제도의 변화로 외식의 기회는 증가하고 있는데 최근 빠른 속도로 성장 보급되고 있는 것이 집으로 음식을 가져가도록 서비스를 제공해주는 take-out food점이다. take-out food점의 주 고객으로 부상하고 있는 서울, 경기지역의 대학생들을 대상으로 take-out food의 이용실태 및 만족도를 조사함 으로써 소비자들에게는 질 좋은 서비스를 받을 수 있도록 하고 효율적이고 합리적인 take-out food점 운영을 위한 기초 자료를 제공하고자 하였다. (중략)

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.1-17
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• 2022

This study provides a critical analysis of the Family Center's programs for adoptive families by interviewing employees at these centers and at Adoption Agencies who have experiences with adoption programs. For this study, nine such workers from three separate Family Centers and three such workers from two separate Adoption Agencies have (voluntarily) engaged in in-depth interviews. Major findings from the interviews are that the Family Centers were initially motivated to carry out adoption family programs for three principal reasons: they located many families (in need of adoption family program); potential adoptees were interested in the program; adoption families participated in the pre-existing programs such as Self-help Group and Co-parenting Space. Workers in the study also reported that they approach to an adoption family and their contemplation on ways to provide better services to the adoption families. They don't have any official and formal manual or guidelines from the Government Ministries and offices such as Korean Institute for Healthy Family; as a result, the workers at Family Centers have endeavored to gain connection with Adoption Agencies in hopes of cooperation with them and to improve the services at Family Centers. For benefits of Family Centers as a delivery system, they mentioned nationwide infrastructure, family professional, and arrangement of integrated program for family. For improvements, they listed awareness education based on a thorough consideration of adoptee's varied characteristics, close cooperation with adoption institutions, provision of basic operational manual from Korean Institute for Healthy Family, and governmental efforts to enlarge the consideration pool for families.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.379-380
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• 2014

현대사회의 급속한 변화 속에서 결혼 출산 양육 노인 부양 등 가정생활과 관련된 각종 사회현상이 다양해지고 있으며, 가족 문제도 심각해지고 있다. 이에 건강한 가정생활 영위와 가족의 유지, 발전을 위해 건강가정 기본법이 2004년 2월 9일에 제정되었다. 이 법은 가정의 건강성 향상을 통한 가정문제 발생 예방 및 가정 중심의 통합적 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 법적, 제도적 기반 마련의 필요성에 따른 것이다.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.68-77
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• 1995

본 연구는 급속한 산업화와 현대화 과정에서 파생괸 과소비 호화혼수, 재벌의 변칙 적인 부의 세습, 상류층내의 배타적인 결혼 지나친 교육열, 환경오염등과 같은 다양한 가족 이기주의 현상의 심각성을 재인식하고 이에 영향을 미치는 요인을 살펴봄으로써 가족이기주 의의 예방을 개선을 도모해 나갈 기본자료를 마련하는데 목적을 두고 있다 서울시에 거주하 는 기혼남녀 333명을 대상으로 가족이기주의 행동의 실태와 이에대한 사회인구학적 변인과 가족주의 가치관의 영향을 살펴본 결과 가정내에서의 가족이기주의 행동에 영향을 미치는 변인은 성별($\beta=.238$), 교육수준($\beta=.237$), 소득($\beta=.188$), 가족우선성의식($\beta=.156$), 형제자매 및 친척간 사회경제적 연대의식($\beta=-.155$)이었고, 교육에서의 가족이기주의 행동에 영향을 미치는 변인은 소득($\beta=.233$), 성별($\beta=.200$), 연령($\beta=.176$), 교육수준($\beta=.156$)이었으며, 환경에서의 가족이기주의 행동에 영향을 미치는 변인은 소득($\beta=.263$)인 것으로 나타났다.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.57 no.4
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• pp.225-251
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• 2005

This study examines the changing paradigm of family welfare policy and tries to find an appropriate model for the delivery system of family welfare service. First, the study reviews the contexts of family policy in new paradigm, and traces the changing process of family welfare-related administration from the ministry of human and health to the ministry of family and gender equality. Second, the study examines the principles of the delivery system for family welfare service to pursue the advancement of family policy. In conclusion, it proposes an alternative model for the successful settlement into community of family welfare delivery system, and a desirable position and role of family support center. The principles of the delivery system of family welfare service is fundamentally to make family policy come realistic, such as strengthening family stability through the harmonic reconciliation of work and family, preventing any forms of families from social safety net, and securing happy lives. Comprehensiveness, continuity, effectiveness, and accessibility of the system are also needed. In particular, family support center, recently very controversial, could be better as a representative council of networking various kinds of community organizations in the fields of family welfare enhancement, rather than organization of direct service provision, such as family counselling, education and therapy. Finally, an alternative model of delivery system for family welfare service is presented.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.714-725
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to investigate language receptive characteristics of children with multicultural families in according to living areas. The subjects were 132 mother with children for living multicultural families 3 to 6 years old. The results were as follows. First, the differences of home environment on nationality, all variables were significant differences on emotional atmosphere, experience's variety, and play data in statistically. Second, the differences of home environment on age all variables were significant differences on permission, independent's upbringing emotional atmosphere, experience's variety and physical environment in statistically. Third, the differences of home environment on educational background, all variables were significant differences on predictable environments, developmental stimulation, quality of language environments, permission, independent's upbringing emotional atmosphere, experience's variety, physical environment and play data in statistically. Fourth, the differences of home environment on communication method in home, all variables were significant differences in statistically as communication(general korean) they use in home. Fifth, the differences of home environment on occupation existence, all variables were not significant differences in statistically.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.167-175
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• 2013

This study set out from the perception that one should develop and activate differentiated programs from those 5 programs of the Health Family Support Center (family counseling program, family education support project, family affinity culture support project, care support project, diversity family support project) on the subjects (n=299) of residents in G metropolitan city by reflecting the levels of family values, communication between family members and family relationship. To achieve the study purposes above, this study devised research questions as follows: Research question 1. What are the levels of local residents for their family values, communication between family members and family relationship? Research question 2. Is there any difference in demanding family support project programs according to the local residents' family values, communication between family members and family relationship? Following are the results of this study: First, the levels were analyzed to be more than the average (on a maximum scale of 5 points) with local residents' family values (M=3.55, S.D.=.664), communication between family members (M=3.65, S.D.=.669), family relationship (M=3.69 S.D=.584) Second, the necessity levels for family values, communication between family members and family relationship of the group below the average as compared with the group over the average was found to be significantly high in family education support project, family affinity culture support project, care support project and diversity family support project except family counseling program. Accordingly, strategic plans for increasing the participation rate for the programs by the Health Family Support Center and activating those programs could be by investigating in advance the levels of family values, communication between family members and family relationship by each program respectively and differentiating the target level for the program by the group, or by giving preference to the group below the average who have high needs of program necessity when making decisions for the participation preference of the programs.