• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.209-220
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• 2011

Purpose: This study aimed to develop a model that describes factors influencing meaning in life among the middle-aged in Korea, and to verify the appropriateness of the model. Methods: The participants were 424 middle-aged residents of Daegu city, Korea. The data were collected through a structured questionnaire from October 4 to 30, 2010 and analyzed using SPSS/WIN 18.0 and LISREL 8.30. Results: Reported life satisfaction and religion had observed to have a significant direct effect on meaning in life, and coping behavior and self-esteem exhibited significant direct and indirect effect. In addition, depression, economic status, and life stress had a significant indirect effect on meaning in life. Life satisfaction was the most influential factor, and all of these variables explained 53% of the variances in meaning in life among the middle-aged. Conclusion: The findings from this study add to the body of knowledge about the factors that influence meaning in life and need further study. The variables in this study could be used as part of the assessment of the middle-aged.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.635-644
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• 2007

Purpose: This study examined what characteristics and variables predict participation in support groups for women with breast cancer. Method: 282 women with breast cancer from 4 hospitals located in Busan were included in the study. Data was measured on each participant from September 2006 to February 2007. Data was collected using structured researcher-administered sheets and analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, chi-square test and logistic regression analysis. Results: The clients reported medium levels of illness perception, anxiety and depression, stress with coping, social support and self-efficacy. 48.9% of women with breast cancer participated in support groups. Significant influencing factors on the participation in support groups were 'operation time(+)', 'illness perception(+)', 'social support(-)', and 'self-efficacy(+)' Those variables explained 73.4%. Conclusion: It is necessary to develop a strategy or promoting program for promotion of illness perception and self-efficacy of women with breast cancer. Thus, it is essential to provide participation to a support group to a women with breast cancer.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.77-96
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• 1996

The purposes of this study were to understand caregiving situation and to develop education program for families with the demented elderly,. Family caregivers of elderly patients with dementia clearly experience high levels of stress which often leads to such negative caregiver outcomes as depression interference with social activities and health difficulties. That is providing care is stressful for caregivers because the demands of the caregiving situation threaten to overwhelm the caregivers' coping resources. Therfore the families with demented elderly persons need assistances in order to alleviated burden of caregiving, In this study the educational program was designed to increase caregivers' confidence in problem-solving, And it was designed to provided information to demented elderly. The educational program of this study was given 5 session. And it was included the understanding of dementia the family caregiving experiences of the demented elderly persons the time for elf-care the search for helping the improving of interpersonal relations and communications.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.12-25
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• 1995

본 연구는 수험생 자녀를 둔 가족의 정신, 신체적 건강이 크게 위협받고 있음을 중시하고, 부모와 수험생 자녀가 겪는 스트레스를 인지, 대처, 디스트레스의 각 측면으로 측정하고 관련 변인을 분석함으로써, 이들 가족의 스트레스 극복을 위한 적절한 방안을 강구해보고자 하는데 그 목적을 두고 고등학교 3학년 재학생과 그 부모 3인을 한쌍으로 360가족, 1080명을 대상으로 자료수집 하였으며, 주요 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 1) 자녀의 학업스트레스가 가장 높게 나타났으며 다음은 모, 부의 순으로 나타났으나 모, 부간의 차이가 크지 않아 부, 모, 자녀의 순으로 대처능력이 높게 나타나 자녀는 높은 스트레스를 인지하면서도 적절한 대체방안을 사용하지 못하고 있음을 알수 있다 2) 부모자녀의 스트레스 상관도는 자녀의 경 우 스트레스 인지와 디스트레스간의 상관이 비교적 높고 부모의 경우는 스트레스 대처와 디스트레스간의 상관이 높다. 또한 부부간 스트레스는 상관이 높지만 부모 자녀간에는 상관이 높지 않게 나타나고 있다. 3) 자녀의 지원대학 수준모의 학력이나 가족의 소득부의 직업 수준등이 낮은 경우 부모나 수험생 자녀의 스트레스가 높게 나타나고 가족응집성, 자녀의 자아 정체감 학업성취욕, 부모의 결혼만족도, 부와의 친밀성, 부모 자녀 갈등등은 스트레스 수준에 영향을 미치는 중요변인이며 이러한 영향력은 모두 자신의 지각에 따라 반응한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.419-420
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• 2019

본 연구는 학년별 임상실습 스트레스 대처와 실습 만족도를 규명하는 조사연구이다. 연구대상자는 K도 J시에 소재한 임상실습 경험이 있는 간호대학생 3학년은 141명, 4학년 142명 총 283명이다. 자료 분석은 SPSS 18.0 WIN 프로그램을 사용하였고, 대상자의 스트레스 대처 중 소극적인 대처 유형은 총 96점에서 3학년 63.75(${\pm}6.57$)점으로 4학년 62.21(${\pm}6.45$)점 보다 높게 나타났으며, 학년간 차이는 통계적으로 유의미하게 나타났다(t= 1.75, p=.045). 대상자의 실습 만족도는 학년간 차이는 실습시간에 대한 만족도가 통계적으로 유의미하게 나타났다(t=2.87, p=.003). 대상자의 스트레스 대처와 실습만족도와의 관계에서는 적극적 대처 유형과 실습내용 만족도(r=.151, p<.05), 소극적 대처 유형과 실습시간 만족도(r=.138, p<.035)는 양의 상관관계를 나타났다. 종합해보면 추후 실습 스트레스에 대한 대처방법으로 임상 실습 전 긍정적이고 목표지향적인 형태를 유지할 수 있는 자극적이고 효율적인 교과과정과 비교과과정에서의 융합 연구가 필요하다고 사료된다.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.138-141
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• 2015

The South Korean construction industry has shown a high proportion of industrial accidents (approximately 28% of whole injuries) and the continuously increasing accident rate. Although many safety research emphasized that the 3E (Enforcement, Education, and Engineering) approach is a potential solution to enhance workplace safety, there should be benefits to consider psychological (i.e., Emotional) effects on the safety performance since most construction works are human-oriented. Thus, understanding construction workers' psychological conditions can be a priority. This research studied the relationships between psychological conditions-which cover stress, personal temperament, emotional disturbance, and drinking habit-and specific safety-related factors including safety motivation and knowledge, and safety performance of individual workers at a construction site. This study conducted a survey of 430 respondents and analyzed the data with the multiple linear regressions. The results imply persistence, trait anxiety, and problem-focused coping style are the critical factors that should be controlled for enhancing jobsite safety. Finally, the research outcomes could be applied to build a strategic safety management plan for a construction manager.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.973-988
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• 2023

In real-life scenarios, we may have to deal with real numbers or numbers in intervals or a combination of both to solve multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems. Also, we may come across a situation where we must combine this interval and actual number membership values into a single real number. The most significant factor in combining these membership values into a single value is by using aggregation operators or scoring algorithms. To overcome such a situation, we suggest the cubic hypersoft set (CHSS) concept as a workaround. Ultimately, this makes it simple for the decision-maker to obtain information without misconceptions. The primary aim of this study is to establish some operational laws for the cubic hypersoft set, present the fundamental properties of aggregation operators and propose an algorithm by using the technique of order of preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS) technique based on correlation coefficients to analyze the stress-coping skills of workers.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• v.56 no.5
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• pp.440-448
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• 2023

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess predictors of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in elderly Asian American and non-Hispanic White cancer survivors. Methods: We conducted cross-sectional secondary data analyses using the combined datasets from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program and the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey. Results: Elderly Asian American cancer survivors reported a lower mental HRQoL but a comparable physical HRQoL relative to elderly non-Hispanic White cancer survivors. Stress factors, such as comorbidities, difficulties with activities of daily living, and a history of depressive symptoms, along with coping resources like self-rated health and the ability to take the survey in English, were significantly associated with mental and physical HRQoL. Among elderly Asian American cancer survivors, a significantly lower mental HRQoL was observed among those taking the survey in the Chinese language. Conclusions: The findings suggest that race exerts a differential impact on HRQoL. Interventions should be designed to address the distinct cultural, linguistic, and systemic needs of elderly Asian American cancer survivors. Such an approach could assist in reducing cancer-related health disparities.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.71-84
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• 2014

Background: Informal care is increasingly recognized as placing a significant burden on the lives of family caregivers. The purpose of this study is to investigate factors related to family caregivers' burden with the community-dwelling disabled elderly under the long-term care insurance system, using the Stress Process Model developed by Pearlin (1990). Methods: Total 1,233 family caregivers with the disabled elderly, using the long-term care services in their home from May to June 2009, completed questionnaires finally. The questionnaire of this study consists of a total of 32 questions, including 11 questions related to background and context, 17 questions related to objective stressors, and 4 questions related to coping resourses. Family caregivers' burden is measured by the Korean Revised Caregiving Appraisal Scale (K-RCAS, Cronbach's alpha=0.86). To investigate factors related to family caregivers' burden, multiple regression analysis was conducted. Results: The average score of caregivers' burden was 22.0 (${\pm}6.12$). In multiple regression analysis, there were statistically significant factors affecting on the family caregivers' burden, that are related to background and context (region, living status, education level, relationship with beneficiary), objective stressors (duration of caregiving), coping resourses (caregiver's health status). Conclusion: This study found that family caregivers experience a considerable burden. The findings suggest that policies must be taken to relieve family caregivers of their duties temporarily, and to support them with counselling and education.

• Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.65-70
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• 2019

Objectives The objective of this study is to investigate differences in clinical characteristics between female panic disorder (PD) patients with abortion history (PD+A) and without abortion history (PD-A). Methods We examined data from 341 female patients diagnosed with PD. We divided the patients with PD into PD+A (82 patients) and PD-A (259 patients) to compare demographic and clinical characteristics. The following instruments were applied : stress coping strategies, NEO-neuroticism, the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-Revised (ASI-R), the Albany Panic and Phobia Questionnaire (APPQ), the Beck Depression Inventory, the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and the Sheehan Disability Scale. Results Compared to the PD-A, the PD+A group showed no significant difference in coping strategies. However, significantly higher scores in neuroticism, the ASI-R, the APPQ and the BAI were observed. In terms of health-related disability, the PD+A group did not show significant difference. Conclusions Our results suggest that the PD+A group may differ from the PD-A group in trait markers such as neuroticism and anxiety sensitivity, and abortion history may be associated with panic-related symptom severity. Our study suggests that further consideration is needed on such clinical characteristics in PD patients with abortion history.