• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.109-119
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to determine the variables that directly affect self-rated health and life satisfaction, and to examine the mediating effect of self-rated health on life satisfaction. The study utilized multiple regression to analyze the data obtained from interviewing 169 older adults aged 60 and over in G-gun in 2015. The results are as follows. First, the number of diseases had a negative effect on self-related health, whereas self-rated economic status and length of exercise time had a positive effect. Second, self-rated economic status, length of exercise time, regular meals, and the number of meals per day positively affect life satisfaction. Third, self-rated economic status and the length of exercise time affect life satisfaction by partially mediating self-rated health, whereas the number of diseases affected life satisfaction by totally mediating self-rated health. Based on the results, policies related to healthcare and provision of meals for older adults have been suggested.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.135-143
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of early adolescents' depression on suicidal ideation and the mediating effects of self-esteem and life satisfaction in the process. For this purpose, the path analysis model for depression, self-esteem, life satisfaction, and suicidal ideation were used to examine the 225 early adolescent students of grades between 4 and 6 attending elementary school. The main results are as follows. First, the self-esteem of early adolescents was partially mediated between depression and suicidal ideation. Second, the satisfaction of life of early adolescents was partially mediated between depression and suicidal ideation. In other words, in order to lower the suicidal ideation of early adolescents, various programs are need to be developed to improve self-esteem and life satisfaction, as well as apply them to practice.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.115-125
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• 2024

The purpose of this study was to verify the mediating effect of self-esteem in the relationship between family conflict, self-esteem, and life satisfaction perceived by multicultural adolescent. The analysis data used the data of the '2nd MAPS (Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study) 2020' surveyed by the Korea Youth Policy Institute. At the time of the survey, 1,533 multicultural adolescents enrolled in the fifth grade of elementary school were selected as samples. The analysis method was verified for the significance of the indirect effect by technical analysis, correlation analysis, and PROCESS MACRO Model Number 4 with mediating effect and bootstrapping. As a result of the study, first, family conflict perceived by multicultural adolescent negatively affected life satisfaction. Second, self-esteem was partially mediated in the relationship between family conflict and life satisfaction. In other words, it is significant in that it presented policy alternatives and practical programs to improve life satisfaction of multicultural youth.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.127-134
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effect of depression and social relationships on the effects of physical satisfaction on life satisfaction of multicultural adolescents. For this purpose, data from the 7th year of the 2017 Multicultural Panel (MPAPS) surveyed among young people were used. The sample was subjected to frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, and correlation analysis to identify the characteristics of 1,146 students in the first year of high school at the time of the survey. In addition, the mediating effect of depression and friendship was analyzed, and as a result, it was found that depression and friendship were partially mediated in the effect of physical satisfaction on life satisfaction of multicultural adolescents. Based on the research results, it is significant in that it provides basic data on programs and practical implications that can be used in the social welfare field to reduce depression and promote amicable friendships for multicultural adolescents to improve life satisfaction.

• The Journal of Korean society of community based occupational therapy
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.97-104
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• 2012

Objective : This research was conducted in order to identify the influence of leisure activity by the spinal cord injury(SCI) on quality of life and present it as evidence for occupational therapy intervention. Methods : The experiment was conducted from October 2010 to March 2011 and was subjected 120 SCI of 9 administration. In use of SPSS 12, 94 samples from 120 SCI were analysis by freqency analysis, T-test and One-way ANOVA. Results : The satisfaction of leisure depending on SCI level and level of paralysis had a significant differences statistically(p< .05). Conclusion : From the research, it was identified that satisfaction of leisure can be improve depending on the level of injury and classification of paralysis, and leisure activity is related to the satisfaction of leisure and quality of life.

• 한국노년학
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.521-536
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is examining the effect of aging attitudes of older people on their life satisfaction, and investigating the mediating role of solidarity between parents and children. To achieve this, the survey was conducted with 2,076 Korean elderlies who were sampled with proportional stratified, and performed multi-mediated regression with SPSS macro PROCESS v.2.16. The results are following. First, aging attitude that older people recognized significantly affects to their life satisfaction. Second, aging attitude significantly affects to the five sub-categories of solidarity between parents and children. Especially, as elderly shows more negative attitude on aging, the solidarity also goes higher. Third, among sub-categories of solidarity between parents and children, affectional, identical, and functional solidarities play roles of mediator on the relationship between aging attitude and life satisfaction, and affectional solidarity shows the biggest influence on the relationship. Based on the results, practical and policy intervention were suggested for better life satisfaction of Korean elderly.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.359-368
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• 2017

This study is empirical research to understand degree of social support and to analysis influence of social support on life's satisfaction of the marriage immigrant women. By precedent study, social support was classified by emotional support factor, evaluating support factor, material support factor and informational support factor. To achieve oblectives of study, it was sampling, aurvey and statistical anlysis. According to result of study, only evaluating support factor was appeared to attentional influence statistically on life's satisfaction of them. Therefore for life's satisfaction of the marriage immigrant women, it have to evaluating support, for example acceptance of valuation and personality, praise, and encouragement on them.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.167-176
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• 2013

This study aims firstly to examine whether adolescents' life satisfaction influences their fandom activities, then to analyze whether the influences of ego resiliency and peer relations on fandom activities vary by adolescents' life satisfaction and how, if they do, and finally, using multi-group analysis, to identify whether there are gender differences in their fandom activities. The results are as follows: Firstly, as adolescents' life satisfaction is lower, their involvement into fandom activities are increased. Secondly, peer relations and ego resiliency has different relations to fandom activities, that is the former have indirect impact on fandom activities. Ego resiliency has both direct and indirect influence on fandom activities, that is adolescents who have higher ego resiliency participate more actively into fandom activities and this influence is mediated by life satisfaction. Finally, the degree of participation into fandom activities depends of adolescents' gender, that is girls involve in fandom activities more actively. One consistent finding of this study is that fandom activities are negatively related to life satisfaction. The results of this study show that more various programs to enhance life satisfaction, self respect and peer relations of adolescents are necessary to facilitate healthier culture of adolescents.

• The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.291-299
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• 2011

Purpose: This study was designed to measure patient satisfaction and oral health-related quality of life and to assess an association between patients' satisfaction and oral health-related quality of life after implant surgery by using structural equation modeling. Materials and methods: A total of 257 participants who visited 6 dental clinics located in Daegu city for the purpose of implant treatment participated in this study. Six months after completion of implant surgery, the patients' satisfaction and oral health-related quality of life were surveyed. The effect of factors associated with patients' satisfaction such as functions and aesthetics, maintenance and cost on oral health-related quality of life after implant surgery was analyzed using AMOS 4.0. Results: Oral health-related quality of life was improved in all dimensions of OHIP-14 after implant surgery. Functions and aesthetics as well as maintenance had a significant effect on oral health-related quality of life (P<.05), while cost was not a critical factor influencing oral health-related quality of life. Conclusion: High satisfaction with functional aspects and maintenance aspects significantly affected good quality of life. The result of this study supported the fact that education and management for patients after implant therapy were positively related to good quality of life based on a theoretical model.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.371-381
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• 2019

This study explored how retirement satisfaction or dissatisfaction influences on retirees' life satisfaction, comparing to workers and the gender differences were examined. The study sample was 2,609 persons (1,886 workers, 723 retirees) aged 45 or older who participated in the 1-2 waves of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA), and the retirees were classified into continuously dissatisfied retirees and satisfied retirees during wave 1 and 2. Using SPSS 21.0, the multiple regression models were examined, and in order to clarify the gender difference, the multi-group analysis and the wald-test were conducted to test the difference of the regression coefficients according to gender using Mplus 7.3. According to the results, the life satisfaction of dissatisfied retirees was lower than that of the employed, but when satisfied with retirement, the life satisfaction was higher than that of the employed. In addition, the dissatisfied retirees in both gender were less satisfied with life than the employed, and this effect was greater in female group. However, the life satisfaction of female satisfied with retirement was higher than that of the employed, whereas the evidence of the male influence was not found to be significant. Based on the results of this study, discussion about heterogeneity of retirees and gender differences in life span were presented.