• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.233-253
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• 2017

This study focused on differences in factors of subjective well-being between children who are raised at their own homes and those raised at the residential institutions. This study used two kinds of data sets, one from survey on subjective well-being of children in residential care supported by National Research Foundation of Korea, the other from survey on children's subjective well-being in Korea conducted by Social welfare research center in Seoul National University and Save the Children Korea. The results are as follows; There are no significant difference statistically between children raised at their own homes and children raised at residential institutions in children's subjective well-being, satisfaction with him/herself, and satisfaction with school. However, there is higher satisfaction with family in children raised at their own homes. On the other hand, there is higher satisfaction with community in children raised at residential institutions. There are difference factors effect on children's subjective well-being between the two groups. Most of all, satisfaction with him/herself is very important factor to improve children's subjective well-being in residential care.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.29-55
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• 2017

This study aims to examine how children's life satisfaction is interrelated with parents' life satisfaction longitudinally. Autoregressive cross-lagged model was employed to analyze the interrelationship between children's and parents' life satisfaction. This study used 6 waves (Elementary school 4th year to Middle school 3rd year) from the Korean Children and Youth Panel Study (KCYPS). The sample size was 1,963 families with child and parent. Key findings are as follows: First, children's and parents' life satisfaction, respectively, was found to influence each other during the study period. Second, parents' life satisfaction were found to have positive and significant cross-lagged impacts on children's life satisfaction. Third, similarly, children's life satisfaction was positively related to parents' life satisfaction longitudinally. The findings suggest that children's and parents' life satisfaction are interrelated in an autoregressive cross-lagged model. This study concludes with implications for enhancing children's and parents' life satisfaction.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.149-158
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of ego-resilience on life satisfaction and the mediating effects of school adjustment between them among first graders, and to provide basic data for improving children's life satisfaction. For this purpose, the investigator collected data from 601 first graders at 25 elementary schools in the Jeonju area and analyzed them with the SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 22.0 statistical programs. The findings were as follows: first, there were significant correlations among the three factors of children's life satisfaction, ego-resilience, and school adjustment; and secondly, both of their ego-resilience and school adjustment had impacts on their life satisfaction, and their ego-resilience had influences on their life satisfaction via school adjustment. These findings indicate that there is a need for supports at various levels to increase the school adjustment abilities of first graders as well as their ego-resilience in order to improve their life satisfaction.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.257-267
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• 2016

This study sought to clarify the relation of children's suicidal ideation and parental depression/life satisfaction, and the mediating effect of the self-esteem in child. With regard to suicidal ideation in children, most studies have used children's depression as predictor, not parental depression. Similarly, parental life satisfaction have not been included in spite of its general influence on child development. Relations among these variables were examined in 512 children and their parents in $7^{th}$ Korean welfare panel data using the structural equation model. Results showed that the maternal life satisfaction was the only significant factor affecting the suicidal ideation of children, no having the mediating effects of the self-esteem in child. The implication of these results and suggestions for intervention and prevention work, and future research are discussed.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.137-142
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• 2022

This study examines the effect of parental attachment on children's life satisfaction based on the relationship between parent attachment, life satisfaction, and ego resilience for children (5th grade elementary school). The purpose is to find out if it mediates the relationship. For this reason, data from the 12th year (2019) of the Korean Children's Panel of the Research Institute for Parenting Policy were used. In the 12th year data, most of the panel children who participated so far went on to the 5th grade of elementary school and became the upper grade of elementary school, so the variables were modified and expanded to reflect the developmental characteristics of the panel children. Data from 1,171 people who responded to all of parental attachment, ego resilience, and life satisfaction among the 1,600 currently maintained sample of 2,150 households in the Korean Children's Panel were analyzed. As a result of this study, first, parental attachment was found to have a positive effect on children's life satisfaction. Second, parental attachment was found to have a positive effect on ego resilience. Third, it was found that ego resilience mediates the relationship between parental attachment and children's life satisfaction. Therefore, this study intends to examine the relationship between parental attachment and life satisfaction in detail through ego resilience. Through this, it is intended to prepare an in-depth academic understanding and action plan for changes in children's life satisfaction.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.69 no.3
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• pp.97-119
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• 2017

There has been no studies that compare services of residential care centers, group homes, and foster homes although out-of-home care services differ from each other depending on the types of out-of-home care. This study compared care satisfaction of 481 children in residential care centers, group homes, and foster homes for five years. Futhermore, factors that predict care satisfaction of the children were identified using multi-level modeling analyses. As results, this study found that care satisfaction of children in group homes was the higher than that in foster homes and residential care centers. In addition, self-esteem, social support, and types of out-of-home services were identified as significant predictors of changes in care satisfaction. Based on the study results, suggestions to help children adapt to out-of-home care and improve out-of-home care satisfaction were made.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.7-16
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• 2020

We aimed that increasing the life satisfaction of children using the Community Child Centers, starting from the interest in healthy growth and development of children. The research was conducted to analyze the effect of stress on the life satisfaction of children using the local children center and the mediated effect of self-esteem. The subjects of this study are 438 children who were surveyed in 2017. They were originally extracted from the 2^nd survey of Community Child Center. For data analysis purposes, SPSS 250 and SPSS PROCESS macro v2.16 were used. The results of this study are as followed. Firstly, school stress has direct influence on life satisfaction, but it has no indirect effect on life satisfaction through self-esteem. Secondly, friend stress and consumption stress have no direct influence on life satisfaction, but they have indirect effect on life satisfaction through self-esteem. On the basis of the results, this study provided the social welfare policy and practical suggestions to reduce school stress and to enhance self-esteem, which are the key to achieving the life satisfaction of children.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.139-145
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• 2021

This study was conducted to find out the effect of job-crafting of social workers at community children's centers on the satisfaction of children. This study used a multi-level analysis model that calculated the child factor (level 1) and the social worker factor (level 2) by utilizing the responses of 31 social workers and 216 children used at 31 community children's centers. The main research results are as follows: First, it was found that 34.3% of the total variation in child satisfaction was due to differences by community children's centers. Second, it was found that the number of hours used per day in the child factor (level 1), and gender, age, and job-crafting in the life worker factor (level 2) affect the satisfaction of children. Based on these results, measures to improve the satisfaction level of children using community children's centers were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.335-345
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to understand parent's influencing factors on life satisfaction of child with ADHD through path-analysis. 297 cases of children with ADHD and their caregiver were selected by children and adolescents psychiatric clinic and community mental health center in Korea as the research targets. ADHD symptoms of the children, nurturing stress, self-esteem and depression of the caregiver, and the children's life satisfaction were measured for every case. As a result, it was found that severity of ADHD symptoms lowered the children's life satisfaction through decline in parents' self-esteem, depression and nurturing stress. Based on these results, it is important to control child's ADHD symptoms in order to increase child's life satisfaction, but intensive intervention for caregiver should also be accompanied.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.518-529
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• 2022

This study noted that the social support and service satisfaction in care services consist of a continuous process of realizing children's rights beyond a single-line effect on children's happiness. This study was to examine the effects of Caregiver' social support on happiness among children using Community Child Center and mediating the effects of service satisfaction. For this, the questionnaire survey was made on targeting 4, 5, 6th grade students using 185 Community Child Centers located Jeonbuk. To this end, survey data were collected 1,241 data, SPSS 23 and Amos 23 were carried out description statistics, correlation analysis and structure equation analysis. The results were as follows. First, caregiver's social support had a direct effect on happiness. Second, service satisfaction had a significant mediating effect on the relationship between social support and happiness. Based on this, this study suggested the policy and practical implication to promote the children' happiness.