• The Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.80-97
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to identify and describe a process of sexual adjustment of individuals with spinal cord injury: and to describe and explore positive and negative influences on the adjustment process. This qualitative study was conducted with 10 Korean individuals with spinal cord injury who had been physically disabled for more than one year. Data were collected and analysed at a same time using grounded theory method. Major categories of this study showed a process how the individuals with spinal cord injury adjust to their individual life as sexual beings. The process included and individual responses to the behavioral efforts including and . Initially physical aspects of sexuality seemed to be affected by spinal cord injuries. The changed physical aspects then influenced other aspects of their sexual life. Life satisfaction of each individual as a sexual being revealed as very subjective. It could be defined according to how the individual approved their sexual life no matter what and how much behavioral effort the person had done. In this study 3 types of sexual adjustment aspects were explored: 'Active adjustment' 'Passive adjustment' 'Maladjustment'. There were negative and positive factors influencing the adjustment process of individuals with spinal cord injury. Those factors might come from themselves, from families, or from social situations. Findings of this study suggested that sexual life of individuals with spinal cord injury should not be understood as a physical or behavioral matter. It was a combination of physical, psychological and social aspects of life. Therefore, appropriate rehabilitation programs for the sexual adjustment of individuals with spinal cord injury need to concern heterogeneous life values of them and obtain individualized services for each individual at a different stage of the sexual adjustment process.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.97-108
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• 2024

Purpose : In this study, we aimed to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing students' adjustment to college life by focusing on their empathic ability, perceived stress, and resilience. Methods : We applied a descriptive survey research design, which included a self-report questionnaire. The participants comprised 307 nursing students in B city. The data were analyzed by calculating the percentages, means, standard deviations, t-tests, ANOVA, Scheffé test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and hierarchical regression using SPSS 23.0. Results : The participants' empathic ability score was 3.30±.42, perceived stress score 1.85±.49, resilience score 3.44±.64, and adjustment to college life score 3.25±.52. Adjustment to college life was positively correlated with resilience (r=.43, p<.001) but negatively correlated with perceived stress (r=.27, p<.001). Factors affecting adjustment to college life include, among general characteristics in Model 1, in descending order, major satisfaction-satisfied (β=.54, p<.001), interpersonal conflict: never (β=.26, p=.018), health status: healthy (β=.25, p=.002), character: positive (β=.21, p=.006), character: optimistic (β=.19, p=.015), parents' economic power: high (β=.15, p=.047), and gender: male (β=.11, p=.016). Model 1 was statistically significant (F=11.67, p<.001), and the explanatory power was 41 %. In Model 2, empathic ability, perceived stress, and resilience were added as independent variables. When including the dependent variables, the factors that most influenced adjustment to college life were perceived stress (β=-.37, p<.001), major satisfaction-satisfied (β=.36, p<.001), health status-healthy (β=.25, p<.001), gender-male (β=.10, p=.015), and resilience (β=.10, p=.029). Model 2 was statistically significant (F=17.65, p<.001), and the explanatory power was 56 %. Conclusion : We found that gender, major satisfaction, health status, perceived stress, and resilience affected adjustment to college life among nursing students who had experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. To increase their ability to adjust to college life, a gender-specific intervention program should be developed that can improve the students' health status, major satisfaction and resilience, and reduce their perceived stress.

• The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.443-452
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• 2018

Purpose: This purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) counseling program on self-efficacy and adjustment to college life for nursing freshmen. Methods: This study used a nonequivalent control pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design. Thirty-eight new nursing students were randomly assigned to either an experimental group (n=18) or a control group (n=20) recruited from a four-year nursing college. An REBT counseling program was composed of 8 group sessions of orientation, understanding the theory of REBT, finding irrational beliefs, internalizing rational beliefs, and closing over a duration of 5 weeks. The duration of each session was 90 minutes. Self-efficacy and adjustment to school life were measured by the Sherer's Self-Efficacy Scale and Baker & Siryk's Student Adjustment to College before and after the REBT counseling program. Data were analyzed using t-tests and paired t-tests. Results: The experimental group showed a significant improvement in self-efficacy compared to the control group. There was no significant change in college life adjustment between the experimental and control groups. Conclusion: An REBT counseling program could be applied as an effective program in enhancing self-efficacy resulting in positive and goal-oriented behavior for new nursing students in college.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.75-82
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• 2021

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the causal relationship between university students' aggression and college life adjustment and to test whether smartphone addiction had a mediating effect between the two variables. A sample of 368 students from 5 universities in G Metropolitan City were included in the analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to test the hypotheses. The major results were as follows. First, university students' aggression had a significant positive effect on smartphone addiction. Second, the effect of aggression on college life adjustment was not significant. Third, university students' smartphone addiction had a significant negative effect on college life adjustment. Fourth, university students' aggression had a significant effect on college life adjustment through smartphone addiction. Finally, theoretical and practical implications were discussed in terms of enhancing college life adjustment.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.121-129
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• 2023

This study was conducted to confirm the effect of interpersonal ability on college life adjustment of nursing students and the parallel multiple mediating effect of emotional intelligence and self-efficacy. Participants in this study were 130 nursing students at a college. Data were collected from 24 July to 1 August 2023, and analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation, and PROCESS macro model 4 using SPSS/WIN 27.0. As a result of the study, interpersonal ability was positively correlated with emotional intelligence, college life adjustment and self-efficacy. Interpersonal ability had a significant total effect(B=0.48, p<.001) on college life adjustment. And the mediating effect of emotional intelligence(B=0.20, 95% bootstrap CI=0.06~0.36) and self-efficacy(B=0.17, 95% bootstrap CI=0.05~0.31) was also significant. Therefore, it will be necessary to develop and research various training programs that can enhance emotional intelligence and self-efficacy together in developing programs to help nursing students improve their college life adjustment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.430-440
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• 2019

This study analyzed the moderating effect of mindfulness on the relationship between college students' mental health and college life adjustment. The study subjects were 246 college students. Data were analyzed using ANOVA, Pearson's correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study were as follows. First, the group with high satisfaction regarding their major showed significantly higher mindfulness and college life adjustment than the group with low satisfaction. Second, ta negative correlation was found between mental health(hypochondriasis, depression, psychopathic deviate, paranoia, schizophrenia, introversion) and mindfulness. Third, a significant negative correlation was found between mental health (depression, psychopathic deviate, paranoia, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, introversion) and college life adjustment. Fourth, mindfulness positively impacted college life adaptation. Fifth, mindfulness also had a significant moderating effect on the relationship between mental health (depression, psychopathic deviate, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, introversion) and college life adjustment. Thus, this study focused on the role and importance of mindfulness as a way to improve mental health and adjustment among college students.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.66-75
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• 2019

In an attempt to provide basic information for the development of programs geared toward facilitating college adjustment of nursing students, this study was undertaken to verify the meaning of life, empathy skills and resilience, as factors affecting the adjustment of nursing students to college and factors influencing relationships of the variables. Between March 1 to April 30, 2019, 531 nursing students in two different colleges located in Gyeonggi Province were enrolled to undertake a survey. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficient, t-tests, ANOVA, and stepwise multiple regression. Results reveal that the meaning of life had a significant positive correlation with empathy skills, resilience and the degree of college adjustment. It was also ascertained that college adjustment was better when the meaning of life, empathy skills and resilience were greater. Factors affecting college adjustment include gender, grade, education at admission, health status, major satisfaction, stress, family economy, meaning of life and resilience; these variables had a 44.8% explain ability of college adjustment. Considering the findings of this study, we propose that sustained education and program development are required to enhance the meaning of life, empathy skills and resilience of college students to ensure their successful college adjustment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.82-95
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• 2017

This study is to examines how cognized parental attachment influence college life adjustment and measures the mediating role of dispositional optimism. 253 Chinese international students participated this study. The data were analyzed by frequency analysis, factor analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regressions analysis, Sobel Test via SPSS 18.0 program. Age, educational background, proficiency of Korean, along with cognized communication, faith yielded positive correlation with college life adjustment. And alienation was negative correlation. The data were collected through convenience sampling method. Age, proficiency of Korean, alienation which is one of the lower factors of cognized parental attachment and dispositional optimism have a positive effect on college life adjustment respectively. The results indicate that the mediating effect of dispositional optimism is statistically significant on the relationship of cognized parental attachment and college life adjustment. Based on the aforementioned results, In order to improve the college life adjusting ability of Chinese international student, not only stable parental attachment, but also seek method to improve filial personal optimistic cognition.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.4459-4466
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• 2015

This study was conducted to identify the factors that influence nursing students' adjustment to college life. Self-report questionnaire surveys were conducted toward 333 South Korean nursing students to measure emotional intelligence, perfectionistic self-presentation, and clinical stress. Data were collected from October 20th to December 8th, 2014. The collected data were analyzed by using t-test, one way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression analysis. The results indicated that emotional intelligence, religion, perfectionistic self-presentation significantly influenced on the adjustment to college life and the explanatory power of the model was 27.2%. Based on the study results, we suggest that it is necessary to develop and apply the educational strategy to improve the emotional intelligence for the adjustment to college life.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.581-589
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• 2020

This study aims to examine the effects of adjustment factors to college life on the work values of public health major students. We sampled 530 undergraduate students majoring in public health administration and engineering from Kyunggi-do, and analyzed the data using t-test, correlation and regression methods obtained from SPSS Win 21.0 software. We found that (1) a student's intrinsic work value is positively related to their adjustment to college life factors but extrinsic work value is positively related to 'professor-student interaction', 'college life satisfaction' and 'expectation for the service college'; (2) 'social integration', 'professor-student interaction' and 'expectation for the service college' influenced to intrinsic work value; (3) 'career identity', 'family support', and 'college life satisfaction' influenced to extrinsic work value. Based on the results of this study, that the improvement of adjustment to college life factors influence on the work values were discussed.