• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.363-397
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to find out correlation and predictors of posttraumatic growth of North Korean refugees in South Korea in 7years. This survey was conducted on 105 North Korean refugees in 7 years with questions on socio-demographic characteristics, personal & social variables, psychological trauma in North Korea and stress experience in South Korea. The influence of these variables was analysed. Result indicated that hope for future, perceived satisfaction, and acculturative stress had influence on the total quality of life in the South. And total quality of life affected PTG, especially emotional factors of quality of life during the early 3years living in the South affected PTG.. Additionally not only emotional but also social factors of quality of life also affected PTG with North Korean refugees in the South in 7 years. Finally, social and mental health service programs for North Krean refugees was discussed.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.211-222
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the influence of sensory weight on the physical fitness participants affects exercise passion and psychological well-being, and to provide basic data for improving the quality of life and well-being of the people. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, data were collected using participants' sensation seeking tendency, excercise passion, and psychological well-being scale, and various statistical analyzes were performed to obtain the following results. As a result of the analysis, first, it was found that there was a difference in sensation seeking tendency, exercise passion, and psychological well-being according to the gender of participants in leisure sports. Second, there was a difference in sensation seeking tendency, exercise passion, and psychological well-being according to the careers of participants in leisure sports. Third, the thrill and adventure of the sensation seeking tendency had a positive effect on the pleasure, immersion, and confidence of the psychological well-being, while pursuing experience on the self-realization of the psychological well-being, but it was found that the sense of boredom had a negative effect on the immersion of the psychological well-being. Fourth, the thrill, adventure, and pursuit of experience among the sensation seeking tendencies had a positive effect on the harmonious passion of exercise passion, but negative effect on the sense of boredom. Finally, it was found that exercise passion had a positive effect on all sub-factors of psychological well-being.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.141-158
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• 2022

This study identifies related factors by analyzing the effects of the psychological characteristics and competency factors of traditional market merchants on business performance, and at the same time verifies the moderating effect of government support policies. The research focus was on verifying the causal relationship. This study was conducted targeting the representative traditional market merchants in the metropolitan area who have experience in traditional market specialization projects or are currently in the process of specialization projects. An empirical study was performed based on the collected data. The analysis results are as follows. First, it was found that self-esteem as a psychological characteristic factor of merchants, customer management competency as merchant competency, and informatization capability had a significant positive (+) effect on financial performance among business performance. Second, as a result of examining the moderating effect of government support policies, it was found that product capability had a significant positive (+) effect on financial performance among business performance. It was found that self-esteem and product competency had a significant positive (+) effect on the will to continue business among business performance. The practical results of this study are the research papers to measure the business performance of traditional market merchants using the government support policy as a moderating variable, using the psychological characteristics and competency factors of traditional market merchants as independent variables. For this purpose, it will be positively evaluated that the psychological characteristics of merchants and merchant competency factors affect business performance, and that meaningful research results are derived by analyzing the moderating effect of government support.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.271-276
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to examine how social motivation, functional motivation, playful motivation, and psychological motivation affect SNS user satisfaction in order to find out what factors are important to Korean high school students in using SNS. As a result, playful motives, functional motives, and psychological motives except social motives have an effect on SNS user satisfaction, and this satisfaction has a positive effect on students' value formation. These results suggest that the reason why Korean high school students use SNS is that they need it and enjoy it, that is, they use SNS from a personal point of view, and are not related to social phenomena. However, social motives were found to have a positive effect on functional and playful motives. In other words, various social phenomena, which are social motives, provide an opportunity and theme for the use of SNS, and functional motives have positive effects on playful and psychological motives. In other words, the various functions provided by SNS have a positive effect on the selection and use of SNS.

• Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.46-58
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• 2008

Objectives: This study was performed to investigate the levels of psychosocial stres and to identify its Methods: The study subjects were 1,806 adults aged 40-70 years living in Naju City, Jeollanamdo. Sociodemographic characteristics, health-related behavior, social suport and personality were collected for statistical analysis. The measurement instrument of psychosocial stress was psychosocial well-being index. The regression analysis. Results: The results showed that 16.6% of subjects were categorized as high stress, 63.4% as moderate, and 20.0% as normal. Overall, the mean value of PWI was 17.29.8 and significantly diferent by socioeconomic characteristics, health-related behavior, social suport and personality. In the case of men, the income, decreased positive social suport, increased negative social suport, type A behavior pattern, decrease of internal locus of control or poorer self-esteem. In the case of women, the PWI was significantly deteriorated in the subjects with no job, no spouse, decreased positive social suport, increased negative social support, type A behavior pattern, decrease of internal locus of control or poorer self-esteem.Conclusions: The psychosocial stres for rural residents was related with social suport and personality. Thus, these results should be considered to reduce stres levels in rural adults.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.405-418
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• 2018

This study identified several factors that may affect binge watching of drama series, which becomes more common, in the changing media environment and tested their influences empirically. For this objective, this research looked at how demographic variables, time availability, perceived effectiveness of interface, perceived content variability, neuroticism and motivations for drama binge watching affect binge watching of drama series. It also examined moderating effect of drama involvement. The findings showed that neuroticism, two motivations(playfulness/stress relief and program reputation motivation) have positive influences on binge watching of drama series. The moderating effect of drama involvement was also found. The meaning of results are also discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.490-498
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• 2016

This study aimed to investigate the relation between self-esteem and satisfaction. After gathering study subjects (exercise participants) and deciding the population in 2014 in Jeonbuk city area, convenience sampling method was used to analyze the date from 278 subjects. The retrieved questionnaire in the research was analyzed in Window SPSS version 21 statistical program. Frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, and correlation analysis were used to find correlations between test values. Multiple regression analysis was used to find the effects of the test values. The study results are as follows. First, the exercise participants' positive self-esteem exhibited a positive relationship with competence, relatedness, and autonomy, which are sub factors of basic psychological needs satisfaction. Also, negative self-esteem had a negative relationship with competence, relatedness, and autonomy. Second, exercise participants' self-esteem had a positive effect on competence and autonomy in positive self-esteem and a negative effect on negative self-esteem. Relatedness had a positive effect in positive self-esteem but not in negative self-esteem. Thus it is necessary to increase positive self-esteem and make various exercise programs about basic psychological needs satisfaction of the exercise participants and strategic activity guide for exercise participants participating in exercise consistently.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.653-660
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• 2013

In this research, students majoring in public health were tested with their interpersonal and emotional intelligence and its impact on psychological well being, studied by identifying the factors to promote and foster the students' emotions. The survey was conducted from May 15, 2003 for two weeks using only students majoring in Public Health. Factor analysis, emotional intelligence, emotion regulation, self-emotional awareness, emotions, taking advantage of others and emotional awareness was divided into four sub-factors. Emotional regulation and emotional advantage and recognition had a positive impact on interpersonal relationships, psychological wellbeing and emotional self-awareness. Emotional impact showed a positive advantage. On emotional intelligence, interpersonal factors that influence others and emotional awareness was highest in the psychological process. Students improve their interpersonal relationships and promote a more psychological well being as the emotion of anger and ability to set goals and to motivate efforts to strengthen the emotional awareness is more important. College students studying in Department of Health Services, as well as medical professionals provide better health care services for the sake of happiness that can inspire a systematic program development and is considered to require constant attention.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.165-178
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• 2022

In this study, to explore the psychological and biosocial characteristics of the temperament and character's latent profile group, first, the latent group was identified with the seven variables of the Temperament and Character Inventory(TCI), and second, the difference between the psychological and biosocial characteristics of three identified latent groups. A total of 287 university students participated, and the latent groups was identified through latent profile analysis, a human-centeted statistical method, using Cloninger's TCI, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire(CERQ), Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule(PANAS), Composite Scale of Moriningness(CSM), Pittsburgh Sleep Qulity Index(PSQI), and Satisfaction With Life Scale(SWLS). As result, first, three latent groups were identified through latent profile analysis using the seven variables of TCI. second, significant differences were identified in CERQ, PANAS, which are psychological variables, CSM, PSQI, and SWLS, which are biosocial variables among the latent groups. In conclusion, the importance of Self-Directedness(SD), a character factor that can be developed rather than Harm-Avoidance(HA), a temperament factor from nature, was confirmed. And the necessity of follow-up studies on psychological and biosocial variables for adaptive and mature personality was discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.495-502
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of adolescent's self-esteem and psychological separation from parents on their interpersonal competence. The study sample consisted of 625 high school students in Seoul, Korea who completed a self-administered questionnaire. The data were analyzed using t-tests, correlations, and hierarchical regression analysis. The main findings were as follows. First, the level of interpersonal competence differed by gender. Second, a higher level of interpersonal competence among adolescents was significantly correlated with a higher level of adolescent's positive self-esteem, lower level of adolescent's negative self-esteem, and higher level of psychological separation. Third, positive self-esteem was the most significant predictor of adolescents' interpersonal competence, followed by parent's regulation. Overall, the results suggest that self-esteem is very important to promote positive interpersonal competence among adolescents. Therefore, programs to address such issues are strongly needed.