• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.65-76
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• 2015

This study attempts to investigate the parent's perception types of online game and their related factors. The data was collected through the online survey from 485 parents. As a result, the parent's perception types of online game were classified as 4 types. Each perception type shows differences in an attitude and reaction to online game and gender. Next, this study employed a multinomial logistic regression model to examine variables influencing the parent's perception types of online game. The result shows that parent's gender, controlling parental style, and problematic communication have statistically significant effects on the parent's perception types of online game. This study holds its significance in considering the game use of children in the context of parent-child relationship by exploring the parent's perception of online game and its influencing variables.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.347-353
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• 2016

This study aims to analyze how parents and their children participating in sports after school hours positively affects their communication and behavior based on the stratified sampling of 189 students (fifth and sixth graders) in Cheongju city C-province. The result from the exploratory factor and the structural analysis using SPSS18.0 showed that participating in sports improved parent-child communication including increasing their motivation, self-confidence, and self-esteem, and reducing children's problematic behavior such as anxiety, feeling insecure, insubordination, and aggressiveness. In order to improve the children's mental health, it would be essential to set various programs of after school sports and more importantly validate its quality.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.163-172
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• 2016

This research was convergence study conducted to understand the effect that parent-son/daughter communications have on the addiction to smartphones, with stress level, self-control, and self-efficacy as the mediator. The subjects were college students located in J province and K province, and 232 questionnaires were used as the data for analysis. As a result, addiction to smartphones had negative correlations with parent-son/daughter communication, self-control, and self-efficacy and had positive correlations with stress level. In addition, parent-son/daughter communication influenced the degree of addiction to smartphones, with stress level, self-control, and self-efficacy as the mediator. Therefore, in order to reduce college students' addiction to smartphones, programs should be developed specifically and systematically to increase their communication with their parents, and it is necessary to draw up measures to reduce students' stress levels and increase their self-control and self-efficacy levels.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.129-138
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• 2017

This study aims to investigate the convergence over effects of adolescent's maladaptive perfectionism and their experience of school bulling victim on suicidal ideation, and the meditating effect of parents-children communication among variables by utilizing the path analysis. Quantitative survey research was conducted with 1,395 students attending primary, middle and high school to identify the following the key results. First, adolescent's maladaptive perfectionism influenced positively their suicidal ideation but bullying victim not influenced their suicidal ideation. Second, adolescent's maladaptive perfectionism directly influenced suicidal ideation and its' effect was indirectly mediated by the subjects's parents-children communication. Third, the relationship between the experience of school bullying victim directly influenced suicidal ideation and its' effect was full mediated by the subjects's parents-children communication. In other words, Parents-children communication works to enhance their ability of dealing with difficulty which reduces suicidal ideation.

• 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 Childcare and Education
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.1-22
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• 2010

The major purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of parent-child communication and the inclination of interpersonal relations on the child's loneliness. The participants were 588 children in 5th and 6th grade of the elementary school which is located in Jeonbuk. Data were collected by self-administered questionnaire method. Data were analyzed by statistical techniques such as mean, frequency, percentile, t-test, pearson's correlation, multiple regression analysis using SPSS/Win 12.0 program. The major results of this study are as follows: First, female children's communication with their mother are more open that those of male children and have ostentation-narcism stronger than that of male children. There is no significant difference statistically in children's loneliness by sex. Second, it is indicated that the parent-child communication has negative correlation with children's loneliness and it also has close relations with sub-variables in inclination of interpersonal relations. Third, when investigating how parent-child communication and inclination of interpersonal relations have influences on child's loneliness, they have influences on child's loneliness by the following order: social-friendly, mother-child communication, father-child communication.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.283-293
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• 2017

The objective of this study is to verify if the parent-child communication has a mediating effect in the relationship between the academic stress recognized by teenagers and the mental health. To achieve this, this study conducted a survey of teenagers who were attending high schools located in Daegu Metropolitan City and made a final analysis of 234 teenagers in total. To verify the mediating effect of parent-child communication in the relationship between the academic stress recognized by teenagers and the mental health, Baron & Kenny's mediating effect analysis method was conducted and the analytical findings are shown below. First, it appeared that career stress and test stress, among the subfactors of academic stress recognized by teenagers had an influence on mental health. Second, it appeared that parent-child communication played a mediating role in the influence of academic stress on mental health.

• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.881-904
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• 2012

This study was to investigate the relationship among emotional intelligence, social support and parent-child communication of multicultural primary school students in rural areas. All of the students for the study were sampled from three multicultural primary schools in rural areas. About 10% among them were from multicultural family students. First, the result indicated that students' emotional intelligence was positively correlated with social support and open communication with their parents. Second, there were no significant differences between unicultural family and multicultural family in social support, parent-child communication, and emotional intelligence. Third, the result of regression analysis revealed that peer and family support were predictors of emotional intelligence of multicultural primary school students in rural areas. The implications for the improvement strategy for multicultural primary school in rural ares were suggested.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.504-513
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• 2010

This study aims to demonstrate what effect of parental Rearing Attitudes and communication on adolescents' Career Decision-making Styles to present mothers' desirable parental Rearing Attitudes and fathers' communication types for reasonable Career Decision-making. As a result, when adolescents perceived mothers' parental Rearing Attitudes negatively, they tended to make dependent decisions. Fathers' open communication had a statistically significant effect on adolescents' reasonable decision while their trouble-type communication had a statistically significant effect on adolescents' dependent decision.