• 건강소식
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• v.37 no.10
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• pp.12-13
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• 2013

정신적인 문제를 겪는 많은 이들은 '행복하고 싶다'고 말한다. 그렇다면 행복이란 무엇일까? 전문가들은 추상적인 행복의 개념을 구체적이고 현실적으로 변화시킨다면, 현대사회의 각종 정신적 문제들로부터 몸과 마음을 건강하게 지키는 데 도움이 될 것이라고 말한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.403-416
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• 2022

This study was conducted to explore the relationship between social status and happiness in the virtual world, which was not dealt with in previous studies. In addition, this study checked whether people were interested in social status itself or social status growth according to their level of happiness. To this end, the researcher composed conditions of high and low social status, and conditions of large and small growth in social status in online games, and presented them differently depending on the participant. Next, the researcher measured how much happiness level changed before and after exposure to each condition. As a result, happy participants had less of an effect of status on happiness in online games. However, unhappy participants were found to be happy when their status in online games was high and unhappy when they were low. Happy participants also paid attention to whether their status in online game had grown. However, unhappy participants paid attention to their high and low status in online games. This study has implications in that it is a rare study on the effect of happiness on the judgment of social status in the virtual world.

• 열린충남
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• s.61
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• pp.44-51
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• 2013

우리는 지금 행복한 삶을 살고 있는가? 우리는 누구나 행복을 꿈꾸지만 물질적 풍요로움에 묶여 진정한 행복을 누리지 못하고 있는 건 아닐까? 이제는 이 '행복' 실현을 위한 패러다임의 변화를 인식하고 우리 사회의 지표로 만들어가야 한다는 목소리가 커지고 있다. 충남발전연구원(원장 박진도)은 한겨레경제연구소, 충청투데이와 공동으로 '행복한 삶 : 경제적 가치를 넘어'를 주제로 행복의 조건을 찾아보는 국제컨퍼런스를 지난 11월 30일 대전에서 열었다. 이날 행사에는 우리에게 <오래된 미래>로 잘 알려진 행복경제학의 전도사 '헬레나 노르베리 호지' 생태와 문화를 위한 국제협회(ISEC) 대표, 부유하지 않아도 국민의 행복도가 높은 나라 부탄의 국민총행복위원회(GNHC) 카르마 치팀 위원장, 삶의 질 연구의 권위자로 일본 내각부 소속 웰빙측정위원회 나오토 야마우치 위원장, 고승희 충남발전연구원 책임연구원 등이 참석했다.

• 건강소식
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.32-33
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• 2012

유명 연예인이 우울증으로 스스로 목숨을 끊었다는 소식은 우리 사회에 충격을 주는 뉴스다. 빼어난 외모, 명성, 그리고 재력까지도 있는 유명 연예인의 죽음을 볼 때 행복의 기준은 빼어난 외모도 인기도 재력도 아니라는 것을 실감한다. 행복이란 스스로 찾아 완성하는 것이지 상황이나 조건이 가져다주는 것은 아니다.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.423-445
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• 2010

Previous research have demonstrated that the external factors (ex., money, appearance) are more influential in Easterners' self-views and conditions for happiness than those of Westerners'. Based on these results, the current study examined whether 1) children and adolescents acquired these tendency as they grew up and 2) this tendency had relevance with social comparison. Total 954 students (260 elementary, 216 middle school, 260 high school and 218 college students) participated in the study. The results showed that elementary and middle school students regarded the internal factors (ex., thinking, feeling) as more important. But high school students considered the external factors as more important, and there was no difference in college students. Also, the results revealed that elementary and middle school students regarded the harmony of family and peace of mind as more important conditions for happiness. These results contrasted with preference for better educational backgrounds, better occupation, and money in high school and college students. In addition, age and social comparison tendency had positive relation with external self-concepts and negative relation with self-esteem. Especially, high school students showed strongest external self-concepts and social comparison tendency among four age groups. They also showed strongest preference for external conditions for happiness, but their self-esteem was the lowest. This might reflect fierce competition for college education in Korea, and the results of the current study have demonstrated that adolescents developed a tendency to prefer external factors to internal factors as they grew up in a competitive environment.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.399-420
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• 2014

The purpose of this narrative inquiry is to explore two gifted elementary students' 'happiness experience'. They narrated that they experienced strong happiness at the moment 'doing something they really like for themselves ', 'trying and achieving in self-directed way', and 'feeling trust, love, and support from their family'. Also happiness was the results of their effort. They made an effort to reduce their negative emotion against happiness by 'controling their feeling doing something their favorite activities' and 'working again and again until they succeed'. The results of the study show that social and emotional support as well as help in the cognitive aspects is important. Especially, parents variable was an essential condition for them to have happiness experiences. More specifically, the study show that overgovernment and excessive intervention from parents should be distinguished from 'good caring' of their child. Practical implication of the study was discussed in depth.

• 가정의 벗
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• v.36 no.9 s.421
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• pp.14-15
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• 2003

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.95-132
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• 2009

Can money buy happiness? If not, what are the factors that influence happiness? What makes people happy? What are the factors that influence happiness among Korean adults? How can we better explain factors that influence happiness? These are the research questions that led to the analyses of psychological, relational, financial resources that influence happiness. To examine differences in socio-economic status, adults and elderly from three different districts that vary wealth and income were interviewed in their own home. A total of 313 respondents (male=133, female=180) between the ages of 20 through 80 completed a questionnaire that contained background information, emotional support scale and happiness scale developed by the present researcher and resiliency of efficacy developed by Bandura(1995). The results are as follows. First, monthly income influence happiness to some extent, but when the variable was excluded from the path analysis, the goodness-of-fit did not change significantly. Although those who have more money can be happier, those without much money can also be happy. These results indicate that financial resource has limited influence on happiness. In addition, monthly income did influence self-efficacy of respondents indicating that those with more money were not necessarily more confident about themselves. Second, an important factor influencing happiness is the relational resource. Emotional support was the most powerful predictor of happiness, four to five times more important than monthly income. Third, self-efficacy influenced happiness. Those respondents with higher resiliency of efficacy had higher happiness scores and the influence was two times greater than monthly income. Moreover, self-efficacy played a mediating role between emotional support and happiness. Fourth, those respondents with higher occupational achievement reported higher happiness score and the influence was two times greater than monthly income. Fifth, success of children influenced happiness score and the influence was 1.5 times greater than monthly income. Sixth, education did not directly influence happiness, but had an indirect influence through self-efficacy and occupational achievement. Seventh, age was not related to self-efficacy and happiness.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.75-98
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to confirm whether adolescents with a tendency to compare online game positions are unhappier than their peers who do not. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to compare the status of their game character with the game world average (below, equal, or above average), and were then measured on their changes in happiness (changes before and after the participant's status comparison). In Experiment 2, participants compared the status of their game character with a person they knew (whether it was lower or higher than their acquaintance), and were then measured on their subjective changes in happiness. In Experiment 3, participants were told that the status of their game character was lower/higher than the average, and were either presented or not presented with the information that their acquaintance's character held a lower/higher position. The subjective happiness level of the two groups was then measured. As a result, Experiment 1 confirmed that adolescents with generally low subjective happiness were unhappier when their game position was lower than the average and were happier when their game position was higher than the average. However, it was found that the happiness level of adolescents with generally high subjective happiness did not significantly change. Experiment 2 observed that adolescents with generally low subjective happiness were unhappier when their game position was lower than others in the game world and were happier when their game position was higher than others. However, this was not true for adolescents with generally high subjective happiness. Experiment 3 showed that adolescents with generally low subjective happiness were unhappier when someone else had a higher game position than themselves and were happier when someone else had a lower game position than themselves, regardless of their status in either situation. However, a significant change was not detected among adolescents with generally high subjective happiness. As a rare study confirming the effects of social status comparison on happiness in the virtual world, this study is noteworthy.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.297-311
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• 2019

This study attempted to reveal the essential meaning of happy life for non-disabled children with disabled parents through a phenomenological research method for non-disabled children with disabled parents using welfare centers. As a result, 76 meaningful statements related to a happy life, eight categories of 20 topics have been drawn up, and the essential meaning of a happy life for a child is 'a happy life for parents', 'a life where parents are recognized' and 'a life where parents are no different from other families,' and 'a life where a child is living happily' as an 'economically stable life' and 'a life with disabilities' As such, I believe that since this period is important for children, there is a pressing need for ways to intervene and improve awareness of the disabled and the role of life.