• The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.290-298
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• 2020

Purpose: This study aimed to grasp the correlation between communication ability, empathy, and interpersonal relations among nursing students, and to explore the mediating effect of empathy on the relation between communication and interpersonal relation in nursing students. Methods: Participants were 209 college students in the Department of Nursing at two universities. The data collection period was from October 1, 2019 to November 1, 2019. The questionnaire consisted of measuring tools for general characteristics, communication ability, interpersonal relation and empathy. SPSS/23.0 program was used. The analysis used descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficient, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, multiple regression analysis, and Sobel's tests. Results: The communication ability was nursing major satisfaction (t=8.25, p<.001), and last year's average grade (t=7.29, p=.001). Interpersonal relationships showed significant differences in gender (t=2.51, p=.013) and nursing major satisfaction (t=10.99, p<.001). Communication ability and empathy (r=.37, p<.001), communication ability and interpersonal relation (r=.77, p<.001), empathy and interpersonal relation (r=.43, p<.001) showed a significant static correlation. In communication ability and interpersonal relation, empathy had a partial mediating effect (Z=2.97, p<.001), and explanatory power was 62%. Conclusion: To improve the communication ability and interpersonal relation of nursing students, it is necessary to develop a personalized and empathy-enhanced education program for each grade.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.385-395
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to investigate the difference between communication ability and interpersonal relationship ability according to the types of Sagunja Temperament. As a result of studying 350 university students in Busan, the first, Temperament type was chrysanthemum, orchid, plum, and bamboo temperament. Second, as a result of analyzing the differences in communication abilities by types of the Sagunja Temperament, there was the highest communication ability of bamboo substrate, and there were significant differences in plum, orchid, and chrysanthemum. The ability of interpersonal relationship according to the types of the Sagunja Temperament showed significant difference in 'first relationship', 'claiming other people's displeasure', 'emotional support and advice' excluding self-exposure and interpersonal conflict handling. Third, there was a significant correlation between communication ability and interpersonal relationship ability. In conclusion, this study proved that the difference of communication ability and interpersonal relationship ability difference according to the types of the Sagunja Temperament is statistically significant, and the significance of this study can be found that tried to reinterpret our tradition in various aspects by applying the Sagunja Temperament that matches the Korean emotion.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.2780-2787
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• 2013

This research was conducted to find out the relation between sensory processing ability and Interpersonal Problem of university students. The subjects were 177 university students whose curricula were similar. The researchers made the subjects fill out the Adolescent/Adult sensory profile and Korean inventory of interpersonal problem(KIIP). The analysis of the relevancy between the Adolescent/Adult profile and the Interpersonal problem showed that 'Low Registration' is related to all aspects of KIIP. 'Sensation Seeking' showed relation with Domineering/Controlling(r=0.150, p<0.05), self sacrificing(r=0.175, p<0.05), Intrusive (r=0.218, p<0.01), Interpersonal sensitivity(r=0.196, p<0.01), and Need for social approval(r=0.149, p<0.05). 'Sensation Sensitivity' showed relation with all aspects of KIIP. 'Sensation avoiding' showed relatively high relation with Domineering/ Controlling(r=0.403, p<0.01), Vindictive(r=0.420, p<0.01), Interpersonal ambivalence (r=0.452, p<0.01), and aggression(r=0.417, p<0.01). Through this research, it turned out that 'Sensory Processing ability' and the Interpersonal Problem are generally related, especially 'Low Registration' and 'Sensation Sensitivity' are highly related to the Interpersonal Problem.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.145-151
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to find out whether there was a meaningful change in the learning perception and interpersonal relations of nursing students after completing clinical practice. Participants were 32 nursing students in the third grade. The research data were collected by questionnaire consisting of interpersonal relations and learning perception. The analysis of data was analyzed by SPSS 21 Version. General characteristics were analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation between variables was analyzed by Pearson's relation, and differences of variables before and after clinical practice were analyzed by paired t-test. The results of the study are as follows. In clinical practice, interpersonal abilities showed a significant correlation with learning outcomes (R =.351, p =.049). The interpersonal abilities of nursing students improved significantly(t =2.264, p =.13) after completion of clinical practice. Nursing college students recognized that their interpersonal abilities had improved after completion of clinical practice, and the improvement of interpersonal abilities was statistically supported. Considering that the interpersonal relationship was an important factor in the clinical practice related stress of the nursing college students, it was meaningful that the interpersonal ability improved after the clinical practice. The positive correlation between interpersonal abilities and learning perceptions in clinical practice of nursing college students suggests future directions for future research. The results of this study will provide basic data on education that will enhance the satisfaction of students' clinical practice and improve their learning outcomes.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.189-198
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• 2023

This study aimed to identify the effects of nurses' interpersonal relationship ability on retention intention and turnover intention. The participants were 192 general duty nurses from a general hospital (95 with 36 months of experience or less, 97 with 37 months of experience or more) recruited using convenience sampling. Data were collected between February 15 and February 22, 2022. The data were analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, regression analysis, and more. The results demonstrated that turnover intention was higher among females. Also, a positive correlation between interpersonal relationship ability and retention intention was found to be significant among the nurses with at least 37 months of experience(r = .35, p < .001). The effect of interpersonal relationship ability on retention intention was found to be significant among the nurses with at least 37 months of experience(B = 0.71, t = 3.44, p < .001). However, the effect of interpersonal relationship ability on turnover intention was found to be nonsignificant. Based on these findings, this study concluded with the need for a strategy to strengthen interpersonal relation ability. during which the work experience should be considered, to promote nurses' retention intention.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.103-111
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• 2019

Purpose - This paper aims to examine a spirituality's impact on the posttraumatic interpersonal relationships of family violence with a structural equation model(SEM). This article starts with the research idea that family violence experience bring about negative emotion in terms of interpersonal relationship leading to the distribution of negative affect in social relationship. The research question of this study pinpoints on how family violence experience affects interpersonal relationship problems and how spirituality affects interpersonal relations problems. Based on the idea, we attempts to deal with spirituality's impact as a driving factor of transforming the distribution of negative affect. Research design, data, and methodology - The structural equation modelling(SEM) is employed as a analysis method of this study. SEM provides a chiefly cross-sectional statistical modelling method, and moreover it allows multiple variables to be associated with a latent variable in this analysis. 300 samples from Seoul, Gyeonggy and Gangwon are selected in the survey. We chose available 271 among them. Results - The results verify that trauma have placed an negative impact on personal relations. The study results also shows that the more serious get the degree of family violence trauma, the worse become interpersonal relationship problems. What is more interesting is that the degree of trauma's impact on interpersonal relation problems in male is higher than that of trauma's impact in female. It is mainly attributed to the fact that women are superior to men in terms of empathy ability and interpersonal relationship orientation. It can be noted that the well-managed spirituality will be able to make a great contribution towards reducing the degree of trauma caused by interpersonal relationships. Conclusions - The study results demonstrates that family violence have negative impacts on spirituality, while spirituality have an positive impacts on reduction the problems of interpersonal relationship. It has been found out that family violence trauma may cause negative affectivity in personal relations, which can distribute negative impacts regarding interpersonal relationship in society. This study also supports that spirituality will be able to function well as a helper, which may reduce the distribution of negative affect in society.

• The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.276-284
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• 2015

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the factors that affect subjective well-being in nursing students. Methods: A total of 236 nursing students participated in the study. Data was collected from November through December 2013 using a self-reporting questionnaire that surveyed the level of gratitude, interpersonal relationship ability, subjective happiness, and life satisfaction. Data was analyzed by descriptive analysis, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with the SPSS/WIN 18.0 program. Results: Subjective happiness positively correlated with gratitude (r=.41, p<.001) and interpersonal relationship ability (r=.55, p<.001). Life satisfaction positively correlated with gratitude (r=.53, p<.001) and interpersonal relationship ability (r=.37, p<.001). Significant predictors of subjective happiness included gratitude (${\beta}=.38$, p<.001), interpersonal relationship ability (${\beta}=.28$, p<.001) and major satisfaction (${\beta}=.17$, p=.002). The regression model explained 39.3% of subjective happiness. Significant predictors of life satisfaction included gratitude (${\beta}=.42$, p<.001), academic achievement (${\beta}=.15$, p=.006), interpersonal relationship ability (${\beta}=.16$, p=.008) and major satisfaction (${\beta}=.12$, p=.035). The regression model explained 35.3% of life satisfaction. Conclusion: To improve subjective well-being among nursing students, nurse educators should develop educational intervention programs to promote gratitude and interpersonal relationships.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.171-176
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• 2019

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of undergraduates' self-directed learning on the school life satisfaction and interpersonal relation ability. For this purpose, 341 undergraduates were targeted and analyzed. The results of the study are as follows. First, as a result of analyzing school life satisfaction, a sub-factor of self-directed learning, all of gender, grade, and age affected. In addition, sub-factors such as study confidence, study passion, study responsibility seemed to affect positively significantly in order. Second, as a result of analyzing the effect on interpersonal relation skills of self-directed study, there was no significant relation in gender, grade, and age. Based on the results of this study, it was confirmed that school life satisfaction and interpersonal relation abilities are closely related to self-directed learning. This is significant in that to revitalize institutions such as educational service, study support for students, self-directed learning programs development in education field at the university, etc. are required.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.273-299
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• 2011

The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship of mother's emotional expressiveness, parenting self-efficacy, verbal control style and children's peer interaction, ability to solve interpersonal problem in an attempt to help improve mother's practical parenting style for promoting children's peer interaction and ability to solve interpersonal problem. The subject of this research were four to five year-old 212 children from five day care center in J city and their teachers. Teachers were tested by questionnaires and children were interviewed. There were the results of this research. There were significant positive correlation among mother's positive emotional expressiveness, positive peer interaction and ability to solve interpersonal problem. There were significant positive correlation among negative emotional expressiveness, negative peer interaction and ability to solve interpersonal problem. There were significant positive correlation between parenting self-efficacy and positive peer interaction. There were significant positive correlation among imperative verbal control pattern and negative peer interaction and ability to solve interpersonal problem. There were significant positive correlation among hierarchical verbal control pattern and negative peer interaction and ability to solve interpersonal problem. There were significant positive correlation among humanitarian verbal control pattern and positive peer interaction and ability to solve interpersonal problem. There were significant negative correlation between parenting self-efficacy and negative peer interaction. There were significant negative correlation between imperative verbal control pattern and positive peer interaction.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.47 no.7
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• pp.45-58
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of individual variables, mother related variables, and timemanagement ability on self-management of adolescents. In addition, the direct and indirect effects of these variables on self-management were also assessed. The subjects of this study were 496 students who were selected at random from middle schools in Daegu. The questionnaire was used for this survey, consisted of a self-management, a timemanagement, a self-efficacy, an internal locus of control, mother’s home management, and mother’s support scale. Factor analysis, multiple regression analysis and path analysis were employed for data analysis. The major findings of this study were as follows: First, mother’s home management planning ability had the most affect on adolescent time-management ability in terms of planning and implementing, while self-efficacy had the most affect on time-management evaluating ability. Second, adolescent’ time-management planning ability had the most affect on lifestyle and money management, time-management implementing ability on studies management, self-efficacy on health management, and internal locus of control on interpersonal relation management of adolescents. Third, among adolescent self-management, lifestyle management, studies management and money management can be achieved through the mediation of adolescent time management ability. They exhibit indirect influence through adolescent self-efficacy, internal locus of control, mother’s home-management planning ability, and mother’s home-management implementing ability. Furthermore, time-management ability is also influenced through the mediation of health management and interpersonal relation management, but is not indirectly affected by selfefficacy, internal locus of control, time planning ability, and time implementing ability.