• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.163-190
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• 2011

This study assessed the manner in which social activities, religious experiences, and spiritual practices related to depression and life satisfaction among 217 Korean elderly individuals, aged 65 to 80. The Social Activities Scale and Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiosity/Spirituality were employed to assess social activities and six domains of religiosity/spirituality: daily spiritual experiences, values, forgiveness, private religious practice, religious/spiritual coping, and religious support. In addition, depression was assessed with the Geriatric Depression Scale, and life satisfaction with the Satisfaction with Life Scale. After controlling for demographic variables, lower depression scores were predicted by higher levels of religious and spiritual coping, social activities, higher income, and ower daily spiritual experiences. In addition, identifying as female, advanced old age, and lower social activities predicted lower life satisfaction in this study. The implications of this study's findings on social work practice are also discussed, along with some future research directions.

• 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.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.57-81
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• 2007

Current discussions on productive aging are going towards the direction to sustain a social productivity and lessen a social burden, and this becomes distinct as it gives a strong value to the activity and independence of older people. This study highlights complex situations of productive activities in the group of older people by analyzing the survey of Among the productive activities of older people, two areas of activities - paid labor and social support - were interpreted differently according to their economic stability, spontaneity and family relations. This difference becomes more remarkable in the analysis on life satisfaction of older people. In paid work, which is the most common productive activity, there was a big difference in life satisfaction between those who work spontaneously and those who work inevitably to make a living. And in the comparison of life satisfaction for those who participate in homemaking and care working according to their economic situations and family relations, those who were unsatisfied with family relations showed lower life satisfaction.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.171-179
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationships among social activities, self-efficacy and the level of life satisfaction of the elderly. 394 structured questionnaires were collected from the elderly aged 60 plus who live in Joonggu, Dajeon City, and the frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis and hierarchical regression analysis were carried out through SPSS Ver 18.0. The results were as follows. First, the frequencies of the learning and cultural activity, social collective activity and family community activity showed relatively high. The participation frequencies showed as 30% for one or two times per week and 20% for nearly no. And the participation time lasted only one or two hours which meat very low level. Second, the positive cognition on the participation in social activities and taking an active part in social activities had an positive effect on self-efficacy and the level of life satisfaction of the elderly.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.560-566
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of the changes between leisure and social activities, life satisfaction, and happiness of the disabled according to the time before and after COVID-19, and to examine the moderating effect of living alone. For the analysis, the data of 3,773 persons from the employment panel for the disabled were used for the analysis, and as a result of the analysis, it was confirmed that the decrease in leisure and social activities further reinforced the decrease in life satisfaction, and consequently the decrease in happiness also increased. In addition, it was found that the effect of leisure social activities on life satisfaction increases according to living alone. In other words, the decrease in leisure and social activities of the disabled led to a decrease in life satisfaction and decreased happiness. Through these results, although social distancing is important, support such as online gatherings, participation in cultural and artistic activities, and education is necessary as an intervention in reducing leisure and social activities, which can be an important protective factor in the lives of the disabled. Furthermore, it was suggested that screening for mental health and intervention for persons with disabilities living alone are necessary in case management of persons with disabilities.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.673-691
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• 2017

This study was to examine the causal relationships among extraneous variables, social participation, and life satisfaction among the elderly persons. This study analyzed 4014 elderly persons out of 2010 KLoSA. The path analysis and mediating effects were examined by AMOS. Except educational level, family income, health status, functional capacities, K-MMSE, and CES-D10 were direct effects on the life satisfaction among the elderly persons. The mediating effects of causal meeting activities, leisure activities, and membership based activities were significant on life satisfaction. This study proposed implications of improving life satisfaction for the elderly through utilizing of social participation activities.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.604-606
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• 2010

이 연구는 한국인의 여가활동 제약과 생활만족의 관계를 규명하고자 한다. 이 연구는 성균대학교 동아시아학술원 서베이리서치센터에서 실시한 2007년 한국종합사회조사 데이터를 활용하였다. 한국종합사회조사에서는 다단계지역확률표본추출법을 이용하여 1,431명의 표본을 추출하였다. 이 연구에서는 SPSSWIN 17.0과 AMOS 5.0 프로그램을 적용하였다. 결론은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 여가활동 제약이 클수록 여가활동 동기는 약화된다. 둘째, 여가활동 제약은 여가활동 참가에 영향을 미치지 않는다. 셋째, 여가활동 제약은 생활만족에 영향을 미치지 않는다. 넷째, 여가활동 동기가 강화될수록 여가활동 참가는 증가한다. 다섯째, 여가활동 동기가 강화될수록 생활만족 또한 높아진다. 여섯째, 여가활동 참가가 증가할수록 생활만족 또한 높아진다.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.295-317
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• 2012

Corporate interest and participation to the corporate philanthropy have increased since sustainable business management and win-win business management is on the rise to be the major task of the corporation, due to global economic recession and shrinking of consumption market. Employee participating corporate philanthropy, such as giving or volunteering, are especially increasing recently. This study analyzed the effects of giving and volunteering participation of the employees on job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior mediated by recognition and attitude about corporate philanthropy. Structural equation modeling was employed for statistical analyses. As a result of the study, it is clear that giving participation of the employees has a positive influence in job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior, mediated by the recognition and attitude about corporate philanthropy. However, the effects of volunteering participation of the employees on job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior mediated by recognition and attitude about corporate philanthropy was non-significant. Based on this result from the study, factors to increase the inner stakeholder effect of employee participating corporate philanthropy are proposed.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.157-170
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• 1990

본 연구는 미 L-A에 거주하는 한국이민 노인들의 특성을 파악하고, 그들의 생활만족도에 기여하는 결정요소들이 무엇인지 가려내며, 그 얻어진 결과를, 동일한 시각과 접근으로 시도되었던 미국 노인들에 대한 선행연구들의 결과와 비교 분석하였다. 연구는 1986년 12월에서 1987년 2월까지 3개월간 미 L-A 카운티에서 거주하는 55세 이상의 한국 이민노인 390명을 대상으로 설문지 조사를 실시하여 그중 192명을 자료분석에 사용하였다. 단계별 중다 회귀분석의 결과, 활동성의 제약정도, 결혼상태, 재정적인 안정, 교육정도, 연령증가 등 5가지 변인들의 특별히 한국노인의 생활만족도가 강한 연관성이 있었고, 반면 자신들이 평가한 건강상태, 지인과의 사회적인 상호작용, 미국거주 년한 등은 노후생활의 안녕에 전혀 직접적인 영향력을 행사하지 못했다. 그러나 자신들이 평가하는 건강상태는, 활동성의 제약 등과 같은 다른 변인에 미치는 효과를 통해서 생활만족도에 간접적으로 강하게 영향을 미치고 있었다. 이러한 결과를 선행연구에서 나타난 서구나 미국노인의 생활만족도 결정의 세 요인인 건강상태, 사회경제적 지위, 사회적 활동성과 비교해 볼때, 사회적 활동성과 연령증가 변인에서 서로 상반되는 대조를 보이고 있었다. 즉, 백인노인들은 나이가 듦에 따라 생활만족도가 낮아지거나 혹은, 연령증가와 생활만족도 사이에 별로 유의할 만한 관계를 보이지 않고 있으나, 본 연구에서의 한국노인은 나이를 먹으면서 오히려 생활만족도가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 사회적 활동성은, 백인노인의 생활만족도에 긍정적 혹을 부정적으로 가장 강하게 영향을 미치는 요인중 하나임에 반하여, 한국노인들은 이것이 자신들의 생활만족에 중요한 것이라 믿고는 있었지만 실제 통계학적으로는 영향력을 행사하지 못하는 요인이었다. 주거환경(자식과의 동거여부) 역시, 이제껏 한국사회에서 기대되어왔던 통념과는 달리, 한국노인의 생활만족도에 아무런 영향을 주지 못하고 있었다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.189-210
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate the casual relationship among social activity, leisure activity and subjective quality of life of the rural elderly. For this end, this study analyzed the differences of the factors by the demographic characteristics and the effects of the social activity and leisure activity on subjective quality of life of the rural elderly. The data was collected using structured questionnaires, and total 324 responses were used in the data analysis. According to the results of this study, the social activity, leisure activity and subjective quality of life was shown to the partially differences by the demographic characteristics. The social activity and leisure activity of the rural elderly had a positive effect on the satisfaction and expectation of life as the subjective quality of life. The religious activities and leisure activity had a positive effect on the satisfaction of life, and the leisure activity through hobbies had a positive effect on the expectation of life. The economic activity had a positive effect on the subjective economic satisfaction, expectation of living standard and municipal government. Also, the volunteer activity and pastime had a positive effect on the subjective health satisfaction. Finally, this study was discussed the theoretical and practical implications as well as the solution to the subjective quality of life of the rural elderly.