• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.149-168
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• 2008

The objective of this study was to expand understanding of children's exposure to domestic violence in Korean society. In-depth personal interview was conducted by a researcher on individual experience of domestic violence in childhood. The findings of this qualitative study are summarized as follows; 1) A person who experienced domestic violence in childhood is likely to feel powerless, and think of himself/herself worthless. 2) He/She needs to have sufficient social support and protective networks. 3) A person who experienced parental violence in childhood is to suffer from people's negative behaviors such as social prejudice, preconception, and discrimination. 4) He/She is worried about the cycle of violence from generation to generation. 5) It is necessary for him/her to overcome his/her negative emotions acquired by the experience of domestic violence in childhood to have a constructive goal for the future.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.1-6
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• 2005

This study is to investigate empirically the turnover awareness of key member working in Research & Development Division in high technology electronic R&D institute. Through the analysis of 106 questionnaires and individual depth interview with key member who is evaluated as core researcher and developer in their working project or has good results in the last 2-3 years, this study obtains the practical informations on the understandings of their professional consciousness and extend of turnover awareness etc. The findings are as follows. Two-thirds of the researcher has the mind of turnover to improve job stability and develop their career. They have an self-awareness that they are key member as a core competent person in working project and their organization, but are dissatisfied with the underestimation of their performances that are not recognized by the organization as they expected level. And the result indicates that many of them haven't find their visions in their organization.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.161-169
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• 1998

The purpose of this study is to find some major factors which can be used as basic design guideline for the elderly housing as the comfortable dwelling circumstances to keep life as self-reliant and secure as possible in their life. The subjects for this study were 200 elderly women in Taegu, data were collected through an individual visiting interview from 29th, Oct. to 15th, Nov., 1997. The major findings are as follows: 1) The elderly women preferred to live 30.3 pyung as the house size, and they desire to live with the married son's family in urban areas. 2) The evalution for the dwelling circumstance was unsatisfatory on the whole. All the preferred housing characteristics were different from the current housing characteristics. The comfortability of dwelling was least satisfied while the space size was most satisfied.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.163-180
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to look for the plan of reconstructing a textbook through error analysis and the process of its correction in numbers and operations of the first grade. The Research materials are collected and analyzed through the journal about every lessons, the recording sheets of students' activity, the recording videotapes during lessons, the individual interview and observation. This study investigated 4 errors which are useful for reconstructing textbook, the errors of understanding relation between numerical expression and number line, the errors of drawing-strategy, the errors of understanding relation between additive expression and subtractive expression, the errors of subtraction has to be regrouped. The errors are classified into some types and analyzed focusing on content of each error. Reinstructing are carried out based on material analyzed for correcting errors.

• Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.50-60
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• 2004

This is a Phenomenological study to describe the experience of nursing students on blind persons. Report and individual interviews were conducted on subjective experience of 5 nursing students. Data were analyzed through Giorgi's method in which meaningful statements. The results were from significant statements on reports and interview. These were clustered into 17 theme and 4 central meaning. Nursing Students started practice with prejudice, fear, and expectation at the same time. They also experienced complicated feelings (expansion of consciousness, growth of self, expansion of emotion, true presence)for the blind person. Make a situational structural description from theme and central meaning. Make a general structural description from situational structural description.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.34-41
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• 2003

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore college women's views of women for forming an upright sex role identity and sex values. Method: The data were collected through in-depth interviews of 10 college women on Jeju Island from February 2002 to March 2002. The interviews were conducted by the writer of this thesis. Each interview lasted for about 45 minutes. The data were analyzed by the Giorgi method. Result: Five main meanings were identified: 1) unfairness 2) majesty 3) mothering 4) womenishness 5) backward in capacity. In other words, women's roles are to look after their family and to take care of household affairs. Women should be beautiful and have womenish traits. Women are less intelligent than men. Women are dependent on men though they suffer from unfairness. This study presents an evidence that the traditional sex-role attitudes still prevail. Conclusion: In order to form an upright sex role identity and sex values, institutional programs in the society and individual efforts are needed.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.1-25
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to explore the potential of peer coaching for EFL teachers' professional development. For this study, 12 college teachers in Korea participated in a 10-week program. They were 7 males and 5 females, ranging in age from 24 to 37 years. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Reflective analysis was used to analyze individual interview data. From the findings, two significant categories of peer coaching were identified: positive and negative responses to peer coaching experience. However, the overriding themes that emerged from the data were the benefits of peer coaching. The participants were almost unanimous in their acknowledgement of the advantages of peer coaching, such as reflective support through other's eyes, improved working environments, greater teaching strategies, higher professional self-esteem, and awareness of self-directed learning. Negative responses also appeared, mostly in regard to the working principles of implementation; the major issues of difficulties were time management, complexities of implementation procedure, stress and personal vulnerability, and relative lack of reflection and feedback skills. Demonstrating the participants' experiences towards the peer coaching program, this study provides EFL teachers with useful insights into peer coaching as an effective tool of their professional development.

• Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.51-56
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to examine the needs of apartment residents for community programs by generations. For this study, the data from the focus group interview(35 participants) and the questionnaire survey(186 participants) were analyzed. The major results were as follows; 1) The residents in different generations had different characteristics and life values. Y generation showed higher value in Technology/Consumption/Individual than other generations. BB generation had higher value both in Health/Property/Family and Prudence/Reality. G generation scored a higher level in Tradition/Conservatism. 2) The residents in all generations showed a high level in needs of community programs and especially higher rates in needs of communication programs items. However, there were gaps in program needs among different generations. Therefore, the community programs should be specialized provided by considering unique needs of different generations.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.1-14
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to analyze the health expenditures of the elderly by examinning 1) the level of the health expenditures by socio-demographic characteristics, and 2) the factors influencing the health expenditures of the elderly. The data were collected by individual interview, consisting of a sample of 258 elders living in Chungbuk province. Of them, 244 elders were used for the analysis. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, t-test, Anova, Tobit anlysis using SAS program. The results were as follows: there were significant differences in the health expenditures of the elderly by income, age, level of education, residential area, level of health condition, type of marriage, illness. The factors influencing the health expenditures of the elderly were income, residential area, and illness.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.221-234
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• 2010

This study reviews domestic violence characteristics, violence factors, and violence solving from survey reports, to find ideas that support shelter or counseling centers. The research method is a literal review and interview. The results were as follows : First, immigrant women experienced emotional, physical, sexual and economic violence. Domestic violence factors were individual characteristics of korea husbands, culture gaps, communication problems and attitudes of mother-in-laws. Second, coping attitudes for immigrant women were passiveness and overt patience of violence situations. Third, professional social workers or counselors were lacking. There was no network link between related service agencies; in addition. Service content was limited, was a lack support for independence.