• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.1-26
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• 2019

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effects of individual virtues and couple's virtues on marital satisfaction. Virtues are the core characteristics valued by moral philosophers and religious thinkers: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Couple's virtues are the virtues being shared by husband and wife. In the current study, subjects consisted of 107 married couples living in Seoul and local areas in Korea. Each member of the couples was asked to fill out the questionnaires including short version of Values in Action-Inventory of Strengths(VIA-IS), couple's VIA-IS which is made out of VIA-IS to suit couples, and General Dissatisfaction Scale(GDS). Actor-Partner Interdependence Model was applied to assess the couple variables that are inter-dependent by nature. The results showed that couple's virtues had greater effects upon marital satisfaction than individual virtues did. The significance of possessing couple's virtues rather than individual virtues was discussed.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.237-244
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of depression in the relationships between marital conflict and parenting behavior of fathers. The data from fathers of 1703 4-year-old children participating in the Panel Study of Korean Children was analyzed. Findings of this study from structural equation modeling analysis indicated that marital conflict was associated positively with depression. Parenting behavior was predicted by depression. Marital conflict had a negative effect on parenting behavior. This study showed that the relationships between marital conflict and parenting behavior were mediated by depression.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.63 no.2
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• pp.179-205
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• 2011

Recently, problems regarding marital adjustment of cancer patients are recognized as serious matter of concern for it had been reported that these issues have severe negative effects on relationship stability within marriage. It is noteworthy how marital adjustment is found to be critical for the cancer patient's mental stability, healing process and chances of survival as reported in the research. Thus, the ultimate goal of this research is to contribute to improvement of the stable relationship and also to formulate the social service related strategy for marriage adjustment for married cancer patient married couples in Korea. Actor and Partner Interdependence Model was formed in order to observe how the communication of the married couple affects marital adjustment and how this has an actor effect as well as partner effect. In order to authenticate this research model, dyadic data which sample the cancer patient and the spouse as a pair. Survey was conducted as the cancer patients who had been diagnosed with cancer and their respective spouses. The survey was taken from 160 married couples which totals to 320 people all together. Results indicated the cancer patient and the spouse have a significant relationship in marital adjustment. Through this, it had been concluded that marital adjustment is not separated but co-dependent with dynamic relationship. And the mutual constructive communication had proven to have a significant positive effect on one's marital adjustment. In demand-withdrawal communication, its negative effect on the self effect was found to be significant in both the patient and the spouse to both of their marital adjustment. Mutual avoidance communication had shown to only cause significant negative effect on self effect to the patient. In verifying the partner effect, significant negative effect was caused by patient's demand-withdrawal communication in partner effect on the spouse's marital adjustment. The results of this study are discussed in term of their implications for clinical interventions for the betterment of marital adjustment among cancer patients and their spouses. The suggestions for future research are discussed also.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.38
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• pp.284-308
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• 1999

This study is about the nationwide research concerning the degree and trends of marital conflict and instability. The research samples are 1,217 married. As the result of the research, the most conflict able issues in Korean couples are on the husband-wife relations, such as habitual differences, sharing in houseworks, conflicts in the role expectation, and the communication problems. In this study, We devide the marital relationships into 4 types (A, B, C, and D) in the view of the satisfaction & instability of marriage. First, the marriage with unsatisfaction and instability (A) was portioned 8.3%, and the satisfactory & stable type (D) was portioned 68.4%. It seems the marital relationships in Korea are relatively stable. However, the portion of type B-unsatisfactory, but stable couples-is 17.1% and the type C-satisfactory, but unstable marriage 6.2%. The result implies that the indication of marital instability should consider not only the divorce rate, but also the quality of marital relationships. In other words, the intervention for the conflict couples yet not divorce is needed. The differences of conflict areas among the relational types is not so much, but the degrees on conflicts are very serious. Especially, in the areas of marital conflict, love issues and personal value system affect the division of relational types of marriage most. It means the interaction factors are the most important variables about maintaining the marital relations with stable and satisfaction.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.7-13
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to develop and apply the convergence program to improve the marital satisfaction of the elderly couples. The purpose of this study was to overcome the divorce crisis of elderly couples and to provide a basic plan for divorce prevention through rapid aging and increase of divorce rate. The subjects of this study were 9 elderly women's welfare centers located in P city. The convergence program for improving the marital satisfaction of elderly couples in this study shows that marital satisfaction is improved by 52.1% from pre - test (cumulative complaint of marriage) to 32.1 (post - test). The results of a qualitative evaluation of the observational records show that it is very helpful to improve the relationship by acquiring the skill of sharing experience and communication between the elderly couple through the program, Marital satisfaction was improved. The results of this study show that the convergence program developed in this study is effective in improving marital satisfaction for elderly couples.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.47-62
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship beteween the adolescents' perception of marital conflict and the adolescents' offensive character. The subjects of this study were 340 adolescents from 5 middle schools located in Seoul. The Adolescents' perception of marital conflict was assessed by The Adolescents' Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale developed by Grych and his colleagues(1992). The Adolescents' offensive character was assessed by Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory by Buss and Durkee(1957). For data analyses. t-tests. one-way ANOVAS. Scheffe Tests for pairwise comparison. pearson's correlations were used. In testing all hypotheses. .05 was used as a significant level in this study. Results showed that the adolescents' perception of marital conflict was positively associated with the adolescents' offensive character. That is, the way the adolescents saw marital conflict often resulted in the adolescents' offensive character.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.1-15
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• 2011

The prolongation of life expectancy has expanded the duration of marriage in old age. In the meanwhile, the change of life style emphasizing privacy and sociodemographic environment favoring independent living has increased the number and proportion of the elderly living with spouse only. This study, focusing on those aged 60 and over who live with spouse only the elderly, explores their marital relationship. The study pays a special attention to compare whether and how the satisfaction on the relationship with spouse would differ between husband and wife. The ordered logit model analysis is conducted based on the nationwide survey '2008 Korean National Survey of Welfare Need in the Elderly'. The results show that the marital relationship satisfaction of husbands is influenced by their own characteristics but hardly affected by his wife's. In contrast, the satisfaction of wife is influenced by husband's characteristics as well as hers. These finding reflect that women are more strongly family-centered and dependent on their husband.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.93-103
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• 1994

본 연구는 부부의 감정적 자기노출 정도를 알아보고 그 유형을 분류한 뒤 관계되는 변인을 밝힘으로써 부부간의 감정적 자기노출에 관한 이해를 명확히 하는데 연구의 목적을 두었다. 248쌍의 부부를 대상으로 분석한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1) 부부의 감정적 자기노출 정도는 부인이 남편보다 높은것으로 나타났다. 2) 부부의 감정적 자기노출에 가장 영향을 미치는 변인은 긍정적 노출의 경우는 심리적 변인이었으며 부정적 노출의 경우는 가정환경적 변인으로 나타났다. 3) 남편과 부인의 감정적 자기노출유형은 남편의 경우는 완전폐쇄형(43.3%), 부인의 경우는 완전노출형(48.2%)이 가장 많았으며, 부부간의 감정적 자기노출유형은 긍정적 자기노출에서는 상호노출형(43.7%), 부정적 자기노출에서는 상호폐쇄형 (38.4%)이 가장 많은것으로 나타났다. 4) 감정적 자기노출유형을 판별하는 가장 강력한 변인은 남편의 경우는 남성성, 부인의 경우는 자아개념으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.23-35
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• 1993

현대사회에서 맞벌이부부 가족이 증가하고 있고 맞벌이부부가족으로써 가족체계가 유지되고 발달됨에 따라 맞벌이부부 가족의 스트레스 관리 방식을 밝히기 위해서는 가족간의 정서적, 관계적 상호작용 과정을 이해하는 것이 중요하다. 맞벌이부부 가족에 관한 이전의 연구들은 가족의 스트레스와 대처방안에 촛점을 두었고 정서적 상호작용과정에 대해서는 중요시 하지 않았다. 이 연구의 목적은 맞벌이부부 가족의 스트레스 관리에 대한 이해를 돕기위하여 가족의 발달적인 측면에 중점을 두어 두가지 이론―가족자원관리 이론과 Family FIRO모델의 통합을 제시하는데 있다. 가족자원관리 이론과 Family FIRO모델의 통합은 이론이 설명하지 못하는 측면에 대해 상호보완적이 시각을 제시해 준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Community Living Science Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.247-252
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• 2004

우리사회에 이혼률이 급증하고(조이혼률 : 1990년 1.1건$\longrightarrow$2002년 3.0건), 가족생활주기 중에 학령기 부부의 결혼만족이 가장 낮다는 연구결과들(서동인ㆍ정현숙, 1994등)이 제기되면서 어느 때보다 가족관계 또는 부부관계의 질적인 향상에 관한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 실제로 Mace(1979) 등은 가족향상에서 가장 중요한 것은 부부중심(couple-focused)이며 해동중심(action-oriented)이라고 하였다. 더 나가가 부부관계를 평가함에 있어서는 자기역할보다는 배우자역할 평가가 중요하다고 보고 (최규련, 1988; 서광희, 1992)되고 있다.