• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.1747-1753
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• 2013

Background: It is projected that low and middle-income countries will bear a major burden of tobacco related morbidity and mortality, yet, only limited information is available on the determinants of smoking initiation among youth in Africa. This study aimed to assess the determinants of smoking initiation and susceptibility to future smoking among a population of high school school students in Lagos, Nigeria. Materials and Methods: Baseline data from an intervention study designed to assess the effect of an anti-smoking awareness program on the knowledge, attitudes and practices of adolescents was analyzed. The survey was carried out in six randomly selected public and private secondary schools in local government areas in Lagos state, Nigeria. A total of 973 students completed self-administered questionnaires on smoking initiation, health related knowledge and attitudes towards smoking, susceptibility to future smoking and other factors associated with smoking. Results: Of the respondents, 9.7% had initiated smoking tobacco products with the predominant form being cigarettes (7.3%). Males (OR: 2.77, 95%CI: 1.65-4.66) and those with more pro-smoking attitudes (OR: 1.44, 95%CI: 1.34-1.54) were more likely to have initiated smoking. Those with parents and friends who are smokers were 3.47 (95%CI: 1.50-8.05) and 2.26 (95%CI: 1.27-4.01) times more likely to have initiated smoking. Non-smoking students, in privately owned schools (OR: 5.08), with friends who smoke (5.09), with lower knowledge (OR: 0.87) and more pro-smoking attitudes (OR 1.13) were more susceptible to future smoking. In addition, respondents who had been sent to purchase cigarettes by an older adult (OR: 3.68) were also more susceptible to future smoking. Conclusions: Being male and having parents who smoke are predictors of smoking initiation among these students. Consistent with findings in other countries, peers not only influence smoking initiation but also influence smoking susceptibility among youth in this African setting. Prevention programs designed to reduce tobacco use among in-school youth should take these factors into consideration. In line with the recommendations of article 16 of the WHO FCTC, efforts to enforce the ban on the sales of cigarettes to minors should be also emphasised.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.953-956
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• 2012

Introduction: In order to control the tobacco scourge, an array of measures is required. Among them is focusing on adolescent relationships as it has been shown that being in a close relationship with a smoker or a non smoker will in the long run be a major factor in deciding whether the individual adopts smoking for initial non-smokers or ceases the habit for initial smokers. Objectives: To assess the attitude of youth towards other smokers and towards marrying a smoker. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 415 students from five universities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Self-administered structured questionnaires were used for data collection. The Chi square test was used to detect significant differences between frequencies. Results: Of the 415 participants who provided their gender information, 99 (24%) were males and 314 (76%) were females. Of all the participants, 83.5% were not willing to marry smokers, while 16.5% were willing. Of those whose parents smoked (106) 68% did not like it when their parents smoked, 13.6% had no opinion, 17.5% did not mind, while the other 1% had other thoughts. Of those whose close friends smoked, 43.4% did not like it, 16.2% did not have any opinion, 36.9% did not mind while 3.5% had other thoughts. Conclusion: Most participants, both males and females are not willing to marry smokers and prefer to have non-smokers as spouses. Also, smokers are seen as less attractive by both genders in contrast to what appears as popular beliefs amongst youngsters and what is depicted in tobacco advertisements. Tobacco control activities can be undertaken in the community and colleges by incorporating students as facilitators.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.43-54
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• 1999

Taiwan has plural agricultural education system and has accelerated its social and economic growth through Agricultural Extension Education. This study has been carried out centering around the work plans which analyzed the project of cultivating young farmers supported by the Republic of China Government. Taiwan has promoted administrative and financial support systems with the government as the central figure in order to equip the efficient and continuous development system of agricultural human resources for securing agricultural skilled personnel, developing farmers' organizations and cultivating young farmers that can cope with the open world. The main training programs are for developing farmers' organizations and they are as follows. 1) The Agricultural Production and Marketing Group(APMG) 2) Expert Farming Training Program for Rural Youth 3) Agricultural Extension Service Worker Training Program 4) Rural Youth Development Program 5) School 4-H Club Activities for Student Development Program 6) International Rural Youth Exchange Program Development 7) Agricultural Extension Education Program for Minority People 8) Job Change Training Program for Rural People The training programs are organized for all the rural residents and students to develop their individual careers systematically and continuously, and they are very encouraging in whole development. Also they offer us many suggestions.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.69-81
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• 2005

The objectives of this study were to measure role conflict of 4-H leaders and to verify the differences of role conflict and self-efficacy according to individual characteristics. The data were collected from 99 leaders who took charge of guiding 4-H youth organization in school as teacher advisor. The statistical techniques used for this study were frequency, t-test, one-way analysis of variance and correlation. The major findings of this study were as follows; 1) The 4-H leaders had some role conflict and role ambiguity in guiding youth activities in the school. 2) The leader advisor group with teaching experience of $5{\sim}9$ years showed higher role conflict and lower role ambiguity. 3) The 4-H leaders with age over 45 felt higher role conflict and lower role ambiguity. 4)The leaders' self-efficacy was positively correlated with self esteem, and negatively associated with role ambiguity.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제40권
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• pp.97-130
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• 2000

The purpose of this paper is a case study on welfare QC circle which is considered as one of the management techniques to improve service quality among recently changing welfare environment. Futhermore this paper is also to suggest a new introduction of the welfare QC circle in korean social welfare agency. To accomplish these purpose, this study theoretically examines activity process and techniques of welfare QC circle. In practice, three social workers and one supervisor working at 'D' community welfare center in pusan are participated during six months. As a result, we founded the specific problems that is aroused from youth volunteer group within by fish bone chart, and proposed the alternative choices by 5W1H check sheet, and also certified to decrease turnover ratio in youth volunteering by pareto chart. This study, however, has its limitation in selection only one case study on welfare QC circle of youth volunteering. Welfare QC circle could be much contributed as one of the management techniques to enhance the quality of social welfare service from the viewpoint of the customer, If it is well developed korean welfare QC model which is suitable to social welfare organization and service. Therefore, in order to introduce welfare QC circle in korean social welfare organizations, I would like to suggest to find out a useful text of welfare QC and organize some welfare QC study groups including other suggestions.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.54-81
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• 2007

The paradigm of health promotion requests community participation and its active problem-solving. Community is conceptualized as a resource pool to be organized. Such resource is called community capacity. Community participation is a process of capacity building. Community voluntary associations are considered as valuable resource to be used for health promotion. This paper tried to identify the network structure among community voluntary associations and to infer the possibility to make such network of organizations participate in health promotion programs. Two survey data were used for this research: 1) Measurements and Evaluations of Community Capacity on Dobong-gu (N=94) 2) A development plan of health medicine service to be Healthy Gangdong-gu (N=69). The questionnaire included such variables measuring community capacity as leadership, membership, organizational resources, and inter-organizational network, etc. Both regions had the following common characteristics: 1) There were positive correlations between the organization's budget and membership. 2) Organizational types were associated with their founded years. Two regions showed the following differences: Dobong displayed the high density of community organizations, but Gangdong showed the low density. Dobong community organizations were able to be classified into three network clusters such as women & environments, youth & adolescent, and sports organizations. Each cluster of organizations favored the different type of health promotion programs. Gangdong community organizations were less developed, and not possible to be clustered. Depending upon the level of community capacity or community organizations' differentiation, the strategy of community participation could be settle down in different ways. Particularly the health agency had to pay more attention to support the growth of civil organizations.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to find out how family, school and community variables influence internet behavior problems in adolescents. By focusing on sex differences, this study analyzes female as well as male behavior problems. The data used in this study are gathered from 1,046 middle and high school students in a national sampling. The results are as follows. Internet addiction is the most frequently occurring problem. A chi-square test shows that male students have higher experience rates than female students in obscene chatting and violent games. A series of logistic regressions are performed to blow the relative influence of independent variables controlling for each other. In the case of male students' internet behavior problems, region, communications with their parents, interactions with their close friends, and satisfaction with community facilities are significant variables. Interactions with friends are significant in predicting behavior problems of both female and male students. Suggestions and implications with regard to intervention strategies for adolescents are discussed.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제52권5호
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• pp.473-482
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• 2014

Focusing on the holistic concept of health, which embraces both physical and mental health, we investigated the effects of parenting and community factors on the health of 1,248 first- and second-year middle school students, on the basis of the data of the Korean Survey on the Activities and Culture of Youth and Children in 2009. The latent class analysis revealed three types of holistic health groups from the data, named as follows: (1) the healthy group, (2) moderate group, and, (3) fragile group. Then, we analyzed the effects of parenting factors and community safety on these health types according to the students' year in school and their mother' s status of employment. The results showed that the first-year students had consistent parenting effects on their own type of health, while the safety of the community only partly contributed to the probability of affiliation to healthier types. However, in the case of the second-year students, a neglectful parenting style and community safety consistently had significant effects on the students' type of health, while parental concern about an adolescent's health did not contribute to the probability of affiliation to healthier types when only the mother was unemployed. The discussion considers how these results provide basic resources for formulating policies and creating intervention programs for addressing the health problems of adolescents.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.31-43
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• 2018

본 연구의 목적은 청소년의 자아정체성과 다문화수용성의 관계에서 공동체의식의 매개효과를 검증하는 것이다. 이를 위해 한국청소년정책연구원에서 실시한 한국 아동 청소년 패널조사(KCYPS) 중에서 초등학교 1학년과 중학교 1학년의 6차년도 데이터를 분석하였다. 6차년도의 학년은 초등학교 6학년 고등학교 3학년이다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 초6과 고3의 자아정체성, 공동체의식, 다문화수용성은 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 청소년의 자아정체성, 공동체의식, 다문화 수용성은 상관관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 회기분석을 통하여 자아정체성과 공동체의식이 다문화수용성에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 자아정체성, 공동체의식, 다문화수용성의 관계를 검증하기 위해 부분매개와 완전매개모형을 비교 분석한 결과 청소년 전체와 초6은 부분매개모형이, 고3은 완전매개모형이 적합한 것으로 나타났다. 이를 통해 청소년 초기에는 자아정체성의 형성이 다문화수용성에 직접적인 역할을 하고, 청소년 후기에는 공동체의식이 다문화수용성을 향상시키는 것을 확인하였다. 이를 근거로 청소년의 다문화 수용성을 향상시키기 위해서는 발달에 따른 자아정체성 정립과 공동체의식을 향상 시킬 수 있는 교육적 프로그램이 필요함을 제언하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.685-695
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• 2016

본 연구는 초등학생과 중학생의 다문화 수용성에 영향을 미치는 요인을 비교하여 차이를 파악하고 그에 따른 구체적인 실천방향을 제언하고자 한다. 본 연구는 5차 한국아동 청소년 패녈 데이터를 통해 초등학교 5학년과 중학교 2학년 학생 4,092명의 자료를 위계적 회귀분석을 통해 요인을 살펴보았다. 본 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다: 첫째, 다문화 수용성의 정도는 유의미한 차이가 있었는데, 초등학생의 다문화 수용성이 중학생보다 높았다. 둘째, 초등학생과 중학생 다문화수용성에 영향을 미치는 요인에는 차이가 나타났다. 초등학생과 중학생의 다문화 수용성에 영향을 미치는 공통요인은 어머니의 학력, 삶의 만족도, 또래관계, 교사관계, 공동체 의식으로 나타났다. 그러나 초등학생의 다문화 수용성에 영향을 미치는 요인으로 주관적 학업성적, 지역사회인식, 문화적 활동경험, 해외방문경험이 발견되었으나, 중학생의 경우에는 가족 및 단체여행경험이 다문화 수용성에 영향을 미치는 요인이었다. 이러한 연구결과는 청소년의 다문화 수용성을 증진시키기 위해 아동과 청소년의 발달단계에 따른 적절한 프로그램이 제공될 수 있어야 함을 보여주는 것이다. 즉, 중학생들에게는 공동체의식을 증진시킬 수 있도록 또래관계 증진 등의 그룹프로그램에 다문화이해 내용을 제공함으로써 다문화 수용성을 증진시킬 수 있도록 하는 것이 필요하다. 그리고 초등학생들에게는 지역사회에 대한 인식과 공동체 의식을 증진시킬 수 있는 다양한 활동중심의 비교과 프로그램, 다문화 강사 등을 통한 다문화이해교육 및 지역사회에 대한 관심을 증진시킬 수 있는 교육을 교과와 연계하여 제공하는 것이 필요하다.