• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제46권10호
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• pp.958-965
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• 2003

목 적 : 근래에 우리나라에서는 소년범죄자수가 계속 증가하고 있고 그 범죄의 질이 점점 악화되어가고 있다. 저자는 소년범죄의 원인을 발견해서 그에 대한 대책을 강구하는데 목적을 두고 이 연구를 시행했다. 방 법: 저자는 대검찰청의 통계를 기초로 해서 소년범죄자수의 증가하는 경향과 그들의 원인분석을 참조했으며, 통계청의 통계를 이용해서 대가족제도의 붕괴와 핵가족의 증가, 맞벌이가족의 증가, 이혼율의 증가상태 등 급격한 사회환경 변화를 조사했다. 저자는 수감 중인 비행청소년군과 학생군의 가정환경을 비교했으며, 남녀 중고등학교 학생들의 가치관을 조사해서 기성세대에 없었던 풍습이 얼마나 늘어났는지를 알려고 했다. 결 과 : 근래에 우리나라에는 핵가족, 맞벌이가족, 이혼율이 현저하게 증가하게 되었고, 이들 모든 조건은 가정교육 내용을 부실하게 하는 요인으로 되었다. 비행청소년군과 학생군의 가정환경 및 비행점수 비교에서도 비행청소년군에 결손가정이 많았고, 경제적으로 빈곤했으며, 부모의 교육 정도도 학생군에 비해서 낮아서 가정교육 내용이 부실화할 수밖에 없다고 생각되었다. 남녀 중고등학생 중에 가치관 조사 결과도 예전에 보지 못했던 경박한 것이 많음을 알았다. 결 론 : 산업화는 근래 한국에 사회환경과 가정환경을 급격하게 변화시켜서 그로 말미암아 자녀교육이 부실해저서 청소년범죄자수와 이상행동아동이 증가하는 주된 원인의 하나로 되었다고 생각한다.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제59권1호
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• pp.113-125
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• 2021

Previous research on the association between marriage and life satisfaction is limited due to the lack of attempts to investigate the time profiles of life satisfaction around marriage. This study addresses unresolved questions about the positive association between marriage and life satisfaction as well as tests if it is moderated by childhood parental divorce. Using 14 waves of the Korean Welfare Panel Study(N=3,890 individuals or 25,338 person-year observations), the author first used an ordinary least squares model with clustered standard errors and found that married people reported higher life satisfaction before marriage, compared to people who remained single during the survey. This result supports a social selection perspective. Next, the author used a fixed effects regression model and found that the transition into marriage was associated with an initial rise and subsequent decline in life satisfaction. Life satisfaction increased after reaching its lowest level in the third year of marriage. Life satisfaction after the transition into marriage was significantly higher than that observed three or more years prior to marriage. The result supports a social causation perspective. Such changing patterns were not moderated by parental divorce during childhood. This study advances the current literature on marriage and life satisfaction by using a nationally representative longitudinal data set as well as by testing social selection and causation perspectives.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제61권4호
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• pp.565-583
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• 2023

This study sought to examine the effects of current single-parent family policies on the psychological adaptation of family members in single-parent homes, while also confirming that visitation and child support are indeed in the best interests of children in such cases. An online survey was conducted in 2021 for divorced single mothers and their children (aged 11 to 19) living in metropolitan regions (Seoul, Kyunggi, and Incheon). A total of 171 dyads, comprised of single mothers and their adolescent children, participated in this study. Using the collected data, descriptive statistical analysis and structural equation modeling were performed. The major results of this study are as follows. First, visitation with fathers was not significantly associated with self-esteem, aggression, or life satisfaction among the participating adolescent children. On the other hand, when child support was paid, aggression among adolescents was lower than when child support was not paid. Second, neither visitation nor child support was significantly associated with single mothers' levels of depression and life satisfaction. The enforcement of child support guarantees the welfare of children and conforms to the principle of promoting the best interests of minor children. Therefore, child support should be continuously encouraged and supported by agencies in accordance with current law. In order for the implementation of visitation to be in the best interest of the child, the amount and quality of visitation should be secured so that the child can still recognize their non-custodial parents as "caregivers."