• 건강소식
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.22-23
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• 2013

가족과 친척, 친지들이 모여 오순도순 이야기꽃을 피우고 정을 나누는 시간. 누구나 바라는 설날 풍경이다. 그런데 현실은 이와 다르기 일쑤다. 설날이 다가올수록 아내의 짜증지수는 치솟고 남편은 그런 아내 눈치 살피기에 전전긍긍한다. 심지어 설날 때마다 두통이나 복통을 호소하는 이도 적지 않다. 명절 이후 이혼상담 비율이 높아지는 것은 또 어찌 설명할까. 이른바 명절증후군이다. 그런데, 이 같은 명절증후군을 극복하고 정답고 행복하게 설날을 보낼 방법은 없을까.

• 건강소식
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.18-20
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• 2012

설 명절이다. 명절에는 가족, 친척을 만나 즐겁지만 연휴의 여파로 생활의 리듬이 깨져 몸에 피로도 쌓이고 현업에 복귀했을 때 일이 손에 잡히지 않는 사람들이 많다. 이는 장거리 운전과 각종 일에 시달려 피로가 누적된 데다가 평상시와 다른 환경에 노출되어 정신적으로도 흥분상태에 있기 때문이다. 또 두통을 호소하는 경우도 많다. 특히 이번 설 연휴는 사흘로 평소보다 짧아 교통체증 등 연휴 피로가 많이 쌓이기 쉽다. 이 같은 연휴 후유증을 해소하기 위해서는 자신이 연휴에 겪을 과정을 미리 대비하는 것이 현명하다.

• Journal of Family Relations
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.107-134
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• 2018

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to have diachronic understanding of holiday stress that has become the social issues through the analysis on the news articles about holiday stress from 1993 to 2016. Method: For this purpose, 416 articles and 457 cases about holiday stress from 5 daily newspapers such as Chosun Ilbo, Joongang Ilbo, Dong-A, Hankyoreh and Kyunghyang Shinmun etc. have been analyzed, conducting the qualitative and quantitative analysis together. Results: Firstly, the articles on holiday stress have been increased, showing the rapid increase per year for the last 20 years. It is presumed to be closely related to the socio-economic situation. Second, although there have been 'married women' overwhelmingly as the subject of holiday stress, the frequency of the young generation has been increasing recently including the 'married women'. Third, the 96.7% of the contents from psychological appeal appeared in the case of holiday stress is related to family values. Especially, the holiday stress related to 'value of patriarchy' was the biggest stress. However, there has been increasing holiday stress caused by 'value of kinship' and 'value of marriage' recently. Forth, as a countermeasure against the holiday stress, the 'perception on the change of family values' has been quantitatively suggested and it has become actively appeared in terms of contents after mid-2000s. However, it has been appeared low in terms of quantity and content recently. Conclusions: This study has significance since it has been verified that the holiday stress started from 'married women' but it has been expanded to the young generation and it is related to the change and co-existence of family values of our society.

• (The)Study of the Eastern Classic
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• no.73
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• pp.65-89
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• 2018

This paper was triggered by the idea that the culture of ancestral rites and the patrilocality, which entail the excessive sacrifice on the part of the wife, that eventually led to the coinage of the expression, "housewives' holiday stress," is perhaps not the age-old traditions it claim to be, but rather a recent phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to reveal that the loss of housewife's authority is the product of "becoming yangban (aristocrats)," which was a culture that was in fashion in the late Joseon dynasty. Until the late Joseon dynasty, women, in particular, the married women maintained an autonomous life which allowed them the authority to an extent, based on their properties that they brought from and the ties that they maintained with their original family and. However, such authority of the housewives disappeared since the invasion of Joseon by Japan and Qing in the year of Imjin (1592) and Byeongja (1636), respectively, as the daughters were excluded from receiving inheritance in a desperate attempt to maintain the impoverished family after the wars. However, patriarchy based on neo-Confucian custom and convention of patriarchal clan system could not spread to the entire population immediately after the wars, as it was impossible to include everyone in the aristocratic class (yangban). It was due to the increase of aristocrats within the continued social changes that occurred after the wars that the neo-Confucian patriarchy became the norm and ethical standard in Joseon society. Also, the theory of propriety in neo-Confucianism that everyone from the emperor down to commoners must abide by the patriarchal clan system was realized through Zhuzi jiali, i.e. Master Zhu's Family Rituals, which institutionalized the system of family rites by setting up ancestral shrines in every household. For the aristocrats who lost their financial footing, the only basis they could rely on to prove their aristocratic lineage is the strict compliance with the rituals. Also, for the once commoners who turned into aristocrats one day had to emphasize the formal propriety in order to distinguish themselves from the commoners. Hence, the culture of "becoming yangban" in the nineteenth-century Joseon was what solidified the patriarchal rituals, decorum, and clan system. As a result, women have become subordinated to the husband's families, which forced the women, i.e. the housewives to serve them and sacrifice themselves for them. At times, women self-imposed such restraints on them as they led themselves into believing that it was necessary to maintain the family for their sons.