• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.18 no.1 s.39
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• pp.1-16
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the adolescent's perception of marital conflict and the parents-children communication. The subjects of this study were 480 adolescents from 3 middle school in Seoul and Gyung Ki-Do. The main results are as follows; First, Marital conflict, perceived by adolescent is not generally high level and the disposal utility factor by adolescent form is higher compare with other numerical index , the contents by adolescent is perceived lower compare with numerical index. Second, the students are mostly having open communications with their parents, but usually more open communications with their mothers. Third, perceiving marital conflict by the adolescent and communication between parents-adolescent is the less the students are conscious of parents conflict, the more the students have open communication with their parents. The higher Being conscious of marital conflict, the more the students have trouble communication with their parents.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.145-158
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• 2005

The purposes of this study are to find out the differences of parent-adolescent communication patterns, family cohesion and adaptability according to socio-demographic variables, to estimate the differences of family cohesion and adaptability according to parent-adolescent communication variables and to offer the basic data that are needed to improve desirable parent-adolescent communication, family cohesion and adaptability. Results of these analysis can be summarized as follows. 1. Open communication with father was showed significant difference according to adolescent's birth order. Close communication with father was showed significant difference according to adolescent's sex, adolescent's birth order and family type. Open communication with mother was showed significant difference according to adolescent's sex. Close communication with mother was showed significant difference according to adolescent's sex and birth order. 2. Family cohesion was significantly different adolescent's sex and income level. And family adaptability was significantly different adolescent's set adolescent's birth order and income level. 3. Family cohesion was influenced by open communication with father, open communication with mother, income level and adolescent's sex. And family adaptability was influenced by open communication with father, open communication with mother, close communication with father, income level and adolescent's sex.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.69-98
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to examine the psychosocial adjustment level of adopted children in non-traditional adoption of Korea and to verify the variables which influence their psychosocial adjustment. Moreover, this study concentrates on the parenting style of an adoptive mother and the openness of communication between the adoptive mother and her adopted child. And, six control variables which are individual characteristics of the adopted child and his(her) adoptive mother were utilized. The participants of the this research consisted of 61 adopted children in non-traditional adoption of Korea aged six and above and their adoptive mothers of 61. Door-to-door surveys for data collection were conducted nationally from December of 2007 to February of 2008. As the results of this study, out of 6 behavior problem variables, the adopted child showed the highest points in immaturely dependence, and their social competence was verified to be good. The psychosocial adjustment of the adopted children in non-traditional adoption of Korea showed meaningful differences according to the warmhearted parenting style of the adoptive mother, the openness of adoptive mother-adoptee's communication on both general and adoption related issues, and control variables. It was also verified that the warm-heartedness and the respect for autonomy of adoptive mother's parenting style, openness of adoptive mother-adoptee's general communication, and five control variables were the important variables influencing the psychosocial adjustment of the adopted child in non-traditional adoption of Korea. Accordingly, the adoptive parents' education of parenting for adopted child should be required more professional and individual approach at the adoption practice of Korea.

• Proceedings of the KHMA Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.399-399
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• 2012

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.139-160
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is twofold: (i) to develop a teaching and learning plan and practical performance assessment tools for the improvement of teenager-parent communication and relationships as well as explore their effects on the communication in the everyday family life; and (ii) to find the underlying problems of teenager- parent communication through conversation analysis and to provide a improved dialogue model. We provided the experimental group with a performance task of communication training between teenagers and their parents in the real family situation while the control group practiced communication skills in a learning situation. However for both classes, before and after performance tasks were equally provided. The experimental group exhibited a longer conversation time with their parents, better communication skills, and higher degrees of relational satisfaction than the control group. Conversation analysis revealed that the experimental group reduced the use of blocking techniques in the teenager-parent conversations more than the control group, and all so raised the frequency of functional communications more than the control group. In both areas of communication in the experimental group was significantly improved, Most notably, a problem-solving case through no-lose conflict resolution methods was effective, succeeding by 70% in the e experimental group and 43.3% in the control group. Parents use blocking techniques like admonition, lecturing, blaming. sarcastic remarking, ordering and so forth, while teenagers use dispute, avoidance, blaming, and teasing in this order. The communication problems during the conversation process, teenagers' evasive and rebellious way of speaking instigates adverse communication responses from parents, so their conversation tends to unfold as ambiguous evasion opposed to: inquiring or evasion by short answers vs. ordering-preaching, or disputing vs. criticizing-making sarcastic, disputing vs. disputing-teaching, and criticizing vs. criticizing.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.40 no.7
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• pp.53-68
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to clarify the influence of positive interactions between the low-income female householders and children on the mothers'psychological well-being and quality of life. The major findings are as following: First, there were high level of life satisfaction and low level of depression among the low-income female householders who perceived high level of children's emotional support. The difference from the existence of the low-income female householder\`s husband was not found in the life satisfaction and depression. After controling for the low-income female householder's health, the differences were maintained. Second, the low-income female householders who communicated with their children open-heartedly felt higher level of life satisfaction and lower level of depression than those who had less communication with their children. The difference from the existence of the low-income female householder's husband was not found in the life satisfaction and depression. After controlling for the low-income female householder\`s educational level and health, the differences were maintained. finally, the low-income female householders felt higher level of life satisfaction and lower level of depression when they listened to their children closely, and were satisfied with mother-child communication.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.329-338
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influences of parent-adolescent communication, positive psychological capital on the psychological well-being of adolescents. The data were collected from 234 middle school students living in G city. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation analyses and hierarchical regression analyses. Results of the study are summarized as follows. Fisrt, parent-adolescent communication and positive psychological capital showed positive correlations with the adolescents' psychological well-being. Second, parent-adolescent communication and positive psychological capital effect on psychological well-being. Third, in terms of individual factors, resilience had the greatest effect on psychological well-being, followed by hope, open communication with a mother, open communication with a father, optimism, in that order. The result for the effects of parent-adolescent open communication and positive psychological capital on adolescent's psychological well-being highlights the important roles played by the parent-adolescent communication of environment variable, positive psychological capital of psychological variable in improving and adolescent's psychological well-being. This study contributes to the literature by proving fundamental insights into an adolescent's psychological well-being and happy life.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.140-152
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• 2020

This study analyzed the satisfaction and utilization of the institutional applications used by child-education institutions from a parent's perspective. The research target is a parent who enlisted their children in private kindergarten institution located in Gyeong-gi province and final research outcomes are 443 in total. The difference in satisfaction and utilization have been identified with demographic descriptive statistics, students t-test, and F-test statistics analysis method. First, the result of T-test on the difference in satisfaction and utilization based on parents' employment status shows that statistically significant difference was found in convenience from overall satisfaction, communication from overall utilization and child-parent relationship. Second, the F-test of differences in satisfaction and utilization showed a statistically significant difference in education utilization variables, with all variables in educational background and motivation. In terms of utilization, parents' educational background and overall utilization, and children's age were confirmed to have significant differences in communication, children's relationship, and motivation in basic life. Third, the result of multiple regression analysis shows that all predictors, including ease of use, communication, and satisfaction with educational activities, have a statistically significant impact on utilization standard variables, relative contributions showed the highest level of communication satisfaction. Therefore this paper implicates that institutional applications can maximize educational effectiveness by checking the applicability of active communication and educational activities with parents and actively communicating with parents in early childhood through various educational content applications.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.40 no.12
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• pp.145-157
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to examine the relations of mother-adolescent relationships and adolescents' self-esteem to their achievement motivation. The mediating role of adolescent' self-esteem was also explored in the relations between mother-adolescent relationships and their achievement motitation. The subjects of this study consisted of 284 2nd-grade middle school students living in D city. The major findings were that adolescents who experienced higher maternal warmth showed higher achievement motivation, while those who experienced higher maternal rejection/restriction showed lower achievement motivation. Adolescent who experienced higher open family communication reported higher achievement motivation, and those who experienced higher problem in family communication reported lower achievement motivation. The higher self-esteem was, the higher adolescents' achievement motivation was. Adolescents' self-esteem mediated in the relations between maternal rejection/restriction and problems in family communication and their achievement motivation.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.99-113
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• 2011

This study examined natural groupings of mother-adolescents in terms of the sub-factors of problems in family communication. The natural groupings were as follows; the placating type, the blaming type, the super-reasonable type, and the inattention type. In addition, this paper also examined individual differences in trait anger and anger coping strategies patterns by clusters of sub-factors of problem in family communication. The subjects of this study consisted of 406 adolescents. Data were analyzed by means of cluster analysis and one-way ANOVA. The results from cluster analysis with the adolescent sample suggested the presence of four clusters ('placating-suppression', 'mixing up-confusion', 'authoritarian-hostility', 'consistent-repression'). Additionally, these four groups were found to be related to trait anger and anger coping strategies (anger-suppress, anger-out, anger-control).