• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.386-395
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• 2014

Sexual satisfaction depends a lot of various factors. The study was conducted to understand middle-aged women's sexual function, sexual communication, and sexual satisfaction and to determine factors influencing sexual satisfaction. As a descriptive correlation study, data was collected during Oct. in 2012 to Jan. in 2013 from 126 middle-aged women in Korea. Sexual function, sexual communication, and sexual satisfaction were averaged 25.02 (range of score 2~36), 3.12 (out of 5), and 2.36 (out of 4), respectively. Sexual satisfaction had a positive correlation with sexual function and sexual communication. Sexual function, sexual communication, and last formal education were influencing factors on sexual satisfaction. Sexual satisfaction of middle-aged women was considered their physical and psychological aspects. Nurses should become aware of the wider consideration that need to be made in relation to the general and sexual quality of life when caring for middle-aged women.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.51-58
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• 2020

Middle-aged women who have experienced the depression have been in pain for a long time. Depression in middle-aged women, which is rapidly increasing from their forties, has a problem that do not decrease in spite of various treatment methods. If the essential cause of depression in middle-aged women is due to the inability to detect the meaning of life because of the lack of the perception about the identity resulting from self-loss, a more qualitative research for a fundamental treatment method is required. The purpose of this study is to find out the essence and meaning of the experience of depression in middle-aged women and to help them to find their own selves through the process of individualization and to recover the whole health as well as to live as a self-transcendent being. Three Christian middle-aged women falling on critical and serious condition by BDI diagnosis were selected for the study. In-depth counseling and interviews were held from January to August 2018. In-depth counseling has provided detailed statements about the process of individualization of middle-aged women who have experienced depression, which applied 5 stages of Giorgi's Phenomenological Research Methodology. As a result, 261 semantic units and 11 sub-components were derived and structured by dividing them into two themes: depression experience and the process of individualization process, which are the subject group. This study has its significance in realizing essential meaning of pain by middle-aged women who experience depression and fundamentally preparing an opportunity to be cured through the process of individualization, as well as contributing for such middle-aged women to have abundant living by suggesting preventive measures to general middle-aged women who prepare for their old age.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.449-456
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• 2014

This study aims to contribute to our knowledge on gender role identity of middle-aged women within the Korean context. This research adapting Q methodology created a sampling distribution of P with 40 middle-aged women between 40-60 years old. We put each of 40 Q samples to become a forced distribution into 9 scales. And then we conducted a secondary analysis of the results from the principal component factor analysis by the PC QUANL program. Gender role identities of middle aged women were classified as four types: "affectionate-sensitive type", "affectionate-confident type", "assertive-confident type", and "sensitive-dominant type". Most of the middle-aged women in Korea tend to keep their original gender role identities. Some of women, however, experience the gender role identity change over time that their traits of traditional caring become more prominent than their affectionate character.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.163-171
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• 2022

This study was conducted to understand the research trends and central concepts of middle-aged women' health in Korea. For the analysis of this study, target papers published from 2012 to 2021 were collected by entering the keywords of 'middle-aged woman' or 'menopausal woman'. 1,116 papers were used for analysis. The co-occurrence network of key words was developed and analyzed, and the research trends were analyzed through topic modeling of the LSD by dividing it into five-year units (2012-2016, 2017-2021), and visualized word cloud and sociogram were used. The keywords that appeared the most during the last 10 years were obesity, depression, body composition, stress, and menopause symptom. Five topics analyzed in the thesis data for 5 years from 2012 to 2016 were 'postmenopausal self-efficacy and satisfaction enhancement strategy', 'exercise to manage obesity and risk factors', 'intervention for obesity and stress', 'promotion of happiness and life management' and 'menopausal depression and quality of life' were confirmed. Five topics of research conducted for the next five years (2017-2021) were 'menopausal depression and quality of life', 'management of obesity and cardiovascular risk factors', 'life experience as a middle-aged woman', and 'life satisfaction and psychological well-being' and 'menopausal symptom relief strategy'. Through the results, the trend of research topics related to middle-aged women's health over the past 10 years have been identified, and research on health of middle-aged women that reflects the trend of the future should be continued.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.201-211
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• 2009

Korean middle-aged women, who are securing economic stability of their own along with the national economic growth, have had much concern in their outward appearance. Especially, middle-aged women's concern of appearance triggered by their various social/leisure activities and appreciation of aesthetic sense leads to the interest in their outward appearance, thus naturally stimulating their purchasing sentiments. This paper attempts to identify the level of middle-aged women's concern of appearance and analyze how this level of concern affects their behavior in purchasing cosmetic products. Our analytical findings include: 1. From the t-test and distributional analysis of points of each factor on the group, the high-interest type 1 (108 persons) and low-interest type 2 (91 person) in terms of 'concern of appearance' turned out to exist. 2. Five factors of cosmetics-purchasing behavior were derived that are fashion-leading type, compulsive buying type, brand-dependent type, pondering type, planned buying type and loyal-to-brand type. 3. Cosmetics-purchasing behavior varied according to the subjects' level of concern of appearance.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.05b
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• pp.913-916
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• 2011

본 연구는 중년의 건강지각과 양생 이행간의 관계를 파악하여 중년의 건강증진에 도움이 되고자 본 연구를 시도하였다. 방법 : 부산광역시 K 대학 사회교육원 및 K대학 야간 재학생 및 사회교육원에 수강중인 250명 가운데 일부 자료가 누락된 56명을 제외한 총 194명을 대상으로 분석하였다. 자료 분석은 spss win 18.0 을 사용하여 다음과 같이 분석하였다. 일반적 특성은 빈도와 백분율, 건강지각 정도와 양생 이행정도는 평균과 표준편차로, 일반적 특성에 따른 건강지각과 양생 이행 정도는 t-test와 ANOVA, Scheffe' test, 건강지각과 양생 이행 정도의 상관관계는 Pearson's correlation으로 분석하였다. 결과 :중년여성의 일반적 특성에 따른 건강지각은 연령에서 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다. 중년여성의 일반적 특성에 따른 양생은 결혼여부, 직업 상태와 음주 경험에 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다. 건강지각과 양생 간의 상관관계에서는 유의한 상관관계가 없었다. 결론 : 본 연구의 추후 효과를 규명하기 위한 반복연구와 건강지각과 양생의 간호중재프로그램의 효과 검증하는 연구가 필요하다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.67-74
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• 2020

Middle-aged women experience physical and mental changes along with the loss of femininity, and they feel psychologically empty according as their child's growth and independence reduces the role of care and parenting. These women understand the sense of loss and emptiness caused of their role reduction as an opportunity to maintain their values and beliefs for their leisure life. Accordingly, middle-aged women overcome negative emotions facing in the middle-aged such as depression or empty mind, and establish self-esteem and social support in recognizing it as an opportunity for building relationship and self-realization in social relations, which come through human to human communication by doing craft activities. In this study, in order to analyze the effect of the experience factor of craft activity to self-esteem and social support for middle-aged women, we set up a research model with the experience factor of craft activity as an independent variable and self-esteem and social support as dependent variables. As a result of the study, educational experiences, recreational experiences, and deviant experiences had a meaningful effect on self-esteem, but aesthetic experiences did not have meaningful effect. And, recreational experiences and aesthetic experiences had a meaningful effect on social support, but educational experiences and deviant experiences did not have meaningful effect on social support. Therefore, the institutional system for craft experiences, that can provide content of environmental characteristics for aesthetic factor and visual elements are required. It influences to the change of senses and emotions of middle-aged women. Also, there are limitations that this study did not consider factors of ultimate life changes through craft activities. Thus this study suggests development of new model for variables of wellbeing-related matters.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.1633-1644
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• 2001

이 연구의 목적은 중년여성들의 체형을 분류하고 이들 체형을 분류하는 판별기준을 세우고자 하는 것이다. 이 연구에서 개발한 판별방법은 중년여성들의 체형을 간편하게 판별할 수 있도록 해주므로 이 방법을 활용하여 중년여성복을 제작할 경우, 소비자들은 인체적합도가 높은 의복을 구입 할 수 있고 의류업 체들은 이에 따른 매출증대를 가져올 수 있다. 연구의 진행절차와 이에 따른 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 만 40세~59세 중년여성 279명에 대 한 인체 계측을 하였다. 인체 계측항목은 34개의 직접 계측항목과 측면사진 촬영을 통한 3개의 간접계측항목,11개의 지수치, 5개의 계산치 등의 총 53개 항목이다. 인체 계측치에 대한 통계분석 방법으로는 분산분석과 SNK검정, 판별분석 방법을 사용하였다. 2. 피험자는 몇 가지 체형으로 분류되었다. 상반신 체형분류는 인체측면 자세와 유방크기를 분류기준으로 하여 바른-유방중소 체형, 바른-유방대 체형, 젖힌-유방중소 체형 , 숙인/휜-유방중소 체형, 숙인/휜-유방대 체형의 5가지로 분류하였다. 하반신 체형분류는 배와 엉덩이의 돌출정도에 따라 분류하여 배정상-엉덩이정상 체형, 배 정상-엉덩이돌출 체형, 배돌출-엉덩이정상 체형 , 배돌출-엉덩이돌출 체형의 4가지로 분류하였다. 3. 분류된 체형은 다음의 판별변수에 따라 체형이 판별되었다. 상반신 체 형 의 판별변수는 앞품/뒤품, 가슴둘레/밑가슴둘레 , 앞길이/뒤 길이, 앞허리선$\longrightarrow$어깨선 길이/어깨선$\longrightarrow$뒤허 리선 길이의 4가지 항목이고, 하반신 판별변수는 엉덩이상부각도, 배 하부각도, 배상부 각도, 엉덩이둘레/엉덩이 최대둘레, 뒤엉덩이둘레의 5가지 항목이다. 상반신 체 형과 하반신 체형 판별함수 모두 70% 이상의 높은 적중률을 나타내었다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.601-608
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• 2021

This study was conducted using data from the 2019 National Statistical Office's Life Time Survey, It was to investigate the effect of time-perception on the time-use pattern of 594 single middle-aged women in the city. This study found that there were differences of time management for daily behaviors between the insufficiently-percieved group and the sufficiently-percieved group. The both spent the most time with personal management. Secondly, the sufficiently-perceived group spent the more time with leisure activities than the insufficiently one did; the insufficiently-perceived one did the more work than the sufficiently-perceived one. The founding suggested the difference of time-use pattern by time-perception of the middle-aged women in the city. Also, the leisure activities and work were key factors to understand the daily life of the city-living middle-aged women.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.52-64
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to understand and describe the illness experience of middle-aged women who underwent craniotomy for meningioma. Data were collected through individual in-depth interviews with 7 middle-aged women who underwent craniotomy. Verbatim transcripts were analyzed using Giorgi's phenomenological analysis to uncover the meaning of the illness experience of the participants. As a results, seven themes were identified: serious attack of fear in middle age, strengthening self-confidence in healing, escape from fear of death, care for my own body, two types of conflict for family harmony and disease, nurse as a healing partner, and opening the second life. Based on the results of this study, it will be possible to plan more comprehensive nursing intervention through understanding of participants' experience. Also, the main reason of fear that participants felt was lack of information about craniotomy. Therefore, the development of educational programs to provide information and knowledge about cranial surgery is suggested.