• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.380-390
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• 2017

This study examined the relationship between social support, social participation and physical functioning among older adults in community senior centers. The subjects of this study were 194 persons aged 60 years or older who participated in the senior center in K province and D city, from June 16 to June 30, 2016. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, T-test, one way ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and structural model analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0 and IBM AMOS 21.0. The result showed that the social support and physical functioning of the elderly in the community were above normal, and social participation was somewhat low. Interestingly, an analysis of the physical functioning between social support, social participation and depression revealed significant correlations. The factors affecting the physical health were 23.4% of the respondents who had a significant influence on social support and leisure activities. In addition, the result of structural model analysis showed that social support had a significant influence on the social participation, depression and physical functioning. Therefore, the results suggests that the development of educational programs and an age-friendly environment should be actively provided to older adults in the community by strengthening the physical function through social support for active ageing.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.264-278
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• 2016

This study aims to examine the participation status and working conditions of seniors that participate in senior social activity support project, and analyze the influential relationship with subjective participation satisfaction based on participant attributes. In terms of the participation status, participating seniors became aware of the project through facilities and about 70% participated in the public interest type; the primary goal was for a short-term financial preservation. As an analysis result on participation effectiveness, longer participation period and time affected the participation seniors' working conditions and self-esteem negatively, implying that a flexible and effective operation of participation period is necessary. Also, while seniors with financial stability were more positively affected on their subjective satisfaction, other significant variables had negative effects. This study holds a significance in providing political implications as the basic data to improve and vitalize future senior social activity support project through the analysis of effectiveness, such as working conditions, self-esteem and subjective satisfaction based on participant attributes, including participant characteristics, participation status and participation degree.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.173-208
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• 2017

Along with its expertise and yearning for freedom, Science has been seduced from Society. Coupled with societal uncertainty and complexity, the Science has faced the difficulty of solving societal issues and recognized its limitation on the control of quality it has kept. This leads to yield its way for opening up the societal participation. With this situation in mind, this paper explores the ways of societal participation on science based on previous studies but limited to evaluation. While the classical evaluation on science is conducted by only experts and not opened to the public, both the participatory and deliberative evaluation on science are open to the public and fitted to this research subject. Both evaluations are in common to expand its involvement to the broader stakeholder than classical one, but have discrepancy in the perspective of evaluands, evaluation methology applied, scope of participants and role of mediators. Along with the main obstacles such as political acceptance, representative of participants, competency of mediators, epistemic limitation and institutional path-dependency, this paper articulates the ways to implement both evaluations. Last but not least, this paper puts an importance on various and consequent research activities on this domain, reorganizing societal system and weighting efforts.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.149-150
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• 2012

레저스포츠 중심의 관광활동이 새로운 여가트렌드로 떠오름에 따라 스포츠 및 관광산업 활성화를 위하여 지상, 수상, 항공레저스포츠 관광활동 참여자의 여가만족이 웰니스에 미치는 영향을 규명하였다. 지상, 수상, 항공 레저스포츠 관광활동 참여자의 여가만족(교육적 만족, 사회적 만족, 긴장이완, 신체적 만족, 심미적만족)은 지상, 수상, 항공레저스포츠 관광활동에 참여하는 집단 간에 유의한 차이를 나타내었으며, 지상, 수상, 항공 레저스포츠 관광활동 참여자의 웰니스(신체적 웰니스, 사회적 웰니스, 정신적 웰니스, 지적 웰니스, 정서적 웰니스)는 지상, 수상, 항공레저스포츠 관광활동에 참여하는 집단 간에 유의한 차이를 나타내었다. 지상, 수상, 항공 레저스포츠 관광활동 참여자의 여가만족은 웰니스에 유의한 긍정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.363-372
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of sportsclub on social integration through the sportsclub participation and social integration index. To achieve this goal, 26 countries among OECD members were selected. Life satisfaction, mutual trust, social isolation, happiness index, social conflict index were selected for correlation analysis. Main findings were as follows. First. Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden had higher sportsclub participation, on the contrary, Korea, Poland, Hungary, Greece, USA had lower sportsclub participation. Second, sportsclub participation had significant correlation with life satisfaction, mutual trust, social isolation, happiness index, and social conflict index. Specifically, sportsclub participation had positive relationship with life satisfaction, mutual trust, happiness index and negative relationship with social isolation, social conflict index.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.199-206
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between intention to participation in sharing economy, digital cultural capital, and social connectedness and then analyze the variables affecting the intention to participate in sharing economy. This subjects were university students. Collected data were statistically processed by PASW 18.0 program using reliability, frequency analysis, T-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation and multiple regression analysis. The results were as follows. First, redistribution participation and cooperative lifestyle participation were relatively high. Second, intention to participate in sharing economy activities differs according to gender, age, monthly allowance, and SNS usage time. Third, intention to redistribution participation increases as the recognition of objectified digital culture capital, embodied digital culture capital, and social connectedness increases. And the intention to cooperative lifestyles participation and information sharing participation increased as digital culture capital increased. Forth, the most significant variable affecting the intention to participate in sharing economic activities was digital cultural capital.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.59 no.1
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• pp.27-53
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• 2007

Until now, the strategies for increasing community participation has been focusing on the administrative legal institutionalization, but these have not brought substantive effects. So, the need of strategies utilizing the community culture which was formed by the residents and community has been issued on recently. The purpose of this study is to explore the strategies utilizing the community culture. So, it was identified the socio-demographic variables affected the community cohesion (community social networks, community solidarity, place-attachment), that is called community spirit and culture. And through path analysis, it was analyzed the relationship among residents' socio-demographic background, community cohesion, and community participation. The findings are as follows. : the community cohesion's three elements altogether affected positively to the community participation. When regarding the residents characteristics, the strategies for increasing the participation relating to community solidarity was most relevant. the socio-demographics affecting to community solidarity are gender, age, the beneficiary, religion, job type, household income, the length of residence. the women was low at level of participation. The most important variables affecting the community cohesion are the age, the residence duration. Based on these results, the relevant strategies or approaches for increasing community participation are as follows. : using and sharing of the aged's community knowledge, making the long term living and final settlement of community residents, increasing and creating the income for the low-income residents, increasing of religious organization and its members' responsibility to community, and the purposeful extension and relevancy of women's participation. Ultimately, this study is to contribute to fomulate the residents- cultural asset driven's community welfare planning.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.61-93
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• 2015

This article assesses and examines democratic potentials of the Internet for U.S. citizens' political participation. The empirical analysis on the data from Pew Research Center's questionnaire survey focuses on four different political activities in both online and offline modes: casual political talk, contact with a government official, petition, and political contribution. The study answers two research inquiries: 1) How does the Internet influence the established patterns of political participation?; and 2) How does the Internet influence the demographic distribution of participatory inequality? Firstly, the Internet, by providing existing participants with additional tools for participation, reinforces conventional participation, rather than mobilizing new participation in politics. Secondly, the online patterns of the participation divide with respect to demographic characteristics imitate the traditional patterns of inequality and disproportionate representativeness in political participation. The Internet is still not a predominant medium for political activities. Citizens' utilization of its transformative and mobilizing potentials remains limited.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.323-324
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• 2013

본 연구는 충남 아산시 "찾아가는 맞춤형 여성교육" 프로그램 참여하는 중년여성의 참여를 통해 지역사회 발전을 위한 여성이 사회참여 필요성 증대 및 여성들의 다양한활 동 등 삶의 질 향상 등 맞춤형 여성교육 프로그램 확충 방안을 모색하기 위함이다. 4주간 매1회씩 인터뷰를 통해 여성의 전문성 향상 및 지속적인 사회참여활동을 지원하는 것에 만족감, 대인관계 및 인맥을 확장등의 긍정적인 반응들이 나타났다. 반면 전문 강사진, 프로그램에 대한 체계적인 관리가 필요함이 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.261-272
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• 2009

This paper explores the key facts of residents' participation in local development projects and activities. Analysing in what ways indifferent residents pay attention to local issues and participate in local activities, this paper aims to suggest the effective ways of residents' participation for local capacity building. By in-depth interviews with active participants in local projects, this paper elucidates three key facts for boosting residents' participation: first, the approval of community about what they have done in community: second, social networking which contains full of trust and solidarity: third, the effort to coincide their personal interest with their local issues.