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Spiritual Well-Being, Social Support, Life Satisfaction and Depression in the Community Dwelling Elderly (지역사회 거주 노인의 영적안녕, 사회적 지지, 생활만족도 및 우울의 관계)

  • Kim, So Nam;Lee, Sang Bok
    • Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.186-194
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: The purposes of this study were to identify correlation of spiritual well-being, social support, life satisfaction and depression in the community dwelling elderly, and to explore a possibility to apply the spiritual well-being, and social support as resources to promote welfare of the elderly. Methods: A structured questionnaire was used to obtain data from a convenience sample of 222 senior citizens, who visited social welfare centers in Gangwon-do from September to October, 2010. Data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, and multiple regression. Results: There were significant differences in spiritual well-being based on religion, satisfaction to religion, economic status, physical health, and life satisfaction. Social support was significantly different according to economic status, physical health, life satisfaction, and social gathering. The existential well-being, family support, and special support had a significant effect on life satisfaction, and demonstrated positive correlations with the well-being of the elderly. Conclusion: Spiritual well-being and social support have significant effects on depression and life satisfaction of senior citizens. Thus spiritual well-being and social support can be considered as important factors that improve the elderly's quality of life.

The Relationships between Well-Being Lifestyle, Well-Being Attitude, Life Satisfaction, and Demographic Characteristics (웰빙 라이프스타일, 웰빙태도, 삶의 만족도 및 인구통계학적 특성간의 관계)

  • Park, Kwang-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.49 no.7
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    • pp.39-49
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the attitude towards well-being and life satisfaction, to investigate the effect of healthy lifestyle and attitude towards well-being on life satisfaction, and to explore the differences in well-being lifestyle factors, well-being attitude, and life satisfaction against demographic variables. This study gave a questionnaire survey to adults between the ages of 10 and 60 who lived in the Seoul, Daegu and Kyungbuk regions of South Korea. Data collected from the 285 respondents was analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, t-tests, ANOVA, factor analyses, and regression analysis. The lifestyle for well-being was categorized into four areas, social welfare oriented activity, use of environmentally friendly products, self-esteem enhancement, and sports activity. Three of these factors were significantly correlated with the attitude towards wellbeing. The results of the regression analysis suggested that healthy lifestyle and attitude towards well-being affected people's life satisfaction.

The Effect of Music Therapy on the Elderly People's Depression and Life-Satisfaction (음악요법이 노인의 우울과 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Mi-Jeong;Chung, Young
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.241-248
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    • 2005
  • Purpose: This research was carried out to examine if music therapy is effective in decreasing elderly people's depression level and in increasing their life satisfaction level Methods: This study used the quasi-experimental design with nonequivalent control group and the pre-test and post-test design, and was conducted from the 26th of July to the 26th of September in 2004. Data were collected using a questionnaire developed by Y.esavage et al. (1983) to measure depression level and one developed by Yoon (1982) to measure life satisfaction level. The subjects were 80 elderly people who were the members of an elderly welfare center in G city. The subjects were divided into an experimental group (n=40) and a control group (n=40). Results: The first hypothesis 'The depression level will be lowered in the experimental group who received music therapy' was supported (t=3.856, p=.000). The second hypothesis 'The life satisfaction level will be raised in the experimental group who received music therapy' was supported (t=2.040, p=.045). The results above suggest that music therapy can be an effective nursing intervention for reducing the depression level and increasing the life satisfaction level of elderly people.

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Effects of Self-Control, Parent-Adolescent Communication, and School Life Satisfaction on Smart-phone Addiction for Middle School Students (중학생의 자기통제, 부모-자녀 간의 의사소통 및 학교생활만족도가 스마트폰 중독에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Su Jin;Moon, Hyuk Jun
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.587-598
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    • 2013
  • This study is to examine (the) effects of self-control, parent-adolescent communication, and school life satisfaction on smart-phone addiction for middle school students. The 127 students who were classified as smart-phone addicts among first to third grade at two middle schools located in Gyunggido were sampled with a survey. T-tests, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression analysis were used. The results of study were as follows. First, smart-phone addiction make no difference according to adolescent's sex and grade. Second, the relations between smart-phone addiction and the factors included self-control, parent-adolescent communication, and school life satisfaction were negatively correlated. As a result, the higher self-control, parent-adolescent communication, and school life satisfaction were, the lower smart -phone addiction was. Third, it is significant as variable that adverse effect, low rank class of parent-adolescent communication and personal relationship, same class as the former of school life satisfaction exert influence on smart phone addiction.

The Mediating Effect of Emotional Behavioral Problems on the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Middle School Students' Life Satisfaction: A Multi-group Analysis According to Parental Composition and Parents' Life Satisfaction (가정의 경제적 수준과 중학생의 삶의 만족도 관계에서 정서행동문제의 매개효과: 부모구성 및 부모의 삶의 만족도에 따른 다집단분석)

  • Ha, Gyuyoung;Lee, Minyoung
    • Korean Journal of School Psychology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.39-63
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    • 2020
  • This study examined the relationship between family socioeconomic status, emotional behavioral problems, parental composition, and parents' life satisfaction, all of which are factors that affect the life satisfaction of Korean middle school students. To this end, multi-group analysis was conducted on KCYPS panel data. The results showed four major patterns. First, family socioeconomic status has a significant direct effect on the students' life satisfaction only when the student has two parents and when the student's parents have high life satisfaction. Second, family socioeconomic status only significantly influenced students' emotional behavioral problems when parents had low life satisfaction, regardless of parental composition. Third, the mediating effect of emotional behavioral problems (aggression) in the relationship between family socioeconomic status and student life satisfaction was only significant when the student had two-parents and when the student's parents' had low life satisfaction. Fourth, depression was the variable most stronly correlated with student life satisfaction. This paper discusses the limitations of this study and the impliations of its results about how to improve students' life satisfaction.

A Study on the Factors that Influence Life Satisfaction of Child with ADHD: Focused on Caregiver's Factors (초등학교 ADHD 아동의 삶의 만족에 영향을 미치는 요인: 양육자 요인을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Jong-Ha;Jung, Ji-Young
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.18 no.9
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    • pp.335-345
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to understand parent's influencing factors on life satisfaction of child with ADHD through path-analysis. 297 cases of children with ADHD and their caregiver were selected by children and adolescents psychiatric clinic and community mental health center in Korea as the research targets. ADHD symptoms of the children, nurturing stress, self-esteem and depression of the caregiver, and the children's life satisfaction were measured for every case. As a result, it was found that severity of ADHD symptoms lowered the children's life satisfaction through decline in parents' self-esteem, depression and nurturing stress. Based on these results, it is important to control child's ADHD symptoms in order to increase child's life satisfaction, but intensive intervention for caregiver should also be accompanied.

The causal relationship between consumers 'life-style and motivation, satisfaction of attributes at fast-food restaurant - Focused on college students eastern area of Kangwon Province (패스트푸드 전문점 이용객의 라이프스타일과 동기, 속성만족과의 인과관계 - 강원도 영동권 대학생들 위주로)

  • Yoon Tae-Hwan
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.21 no.6 s.90
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    • pp.867-876
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    • 2005
  • The purposes of this study were, 1) to investigate the causal relationship between customer's life-style and motivation of eating-out, and 2) to research the causal nexus between motivation of eating-out and satisfaction of attributes to choose the restaurant. Reliability analysis, factor analysis, and Structure Equation Model(SEM) were adapted by Windows SPSS 10.0 and Amos 4.0. Life-style was divided into 7 factors and eating-out motivation into 5. Life-style influenced significantly each motivation of eating-out. It had positive influence on 'Reception and congratulation', 'Change of dietary life', 'Economic saving', "'Preference motivation', and 'Advertisement and companion's need', but negative influence on 'Reception and congratulation', 'Change of dietary life', and 'Preference motivation'. Customer's motivation of eating-out also influenced significantly the attributes. Factorl 'Reception and congratulation' had positive influence on all attributes except for 'Transportation convenience and distance to the shop'. Factor 2 'Change of dietary life' had negative influence on 'Food's taste, quantity, price', 'Sanitation and cleanness', and 'Staff's service quality' Factor 3 "Economic saving' had positive influence on 'Food's taste, quantity, price' and 'Transportation convenience and distance to the shop'. factors 'Advertisement and companion's need' had positive influence on 'Atmosphere of restaurant' and negative influence on 'Food's taste, quantity, price'.

Relationship among User's Security Need Sufficiency, Customer Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction in Electronic Security System (기계경비시스템 이용자의 안전욕구충족과 이용만족 및 생활만족의 관계)

  • Kim, Chan-Sun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.9 no.7
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    • pp.257-267
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    • 2009
  • This study aims at diagnosing the relationship among user's security need Sufficiency, customer satisfaction and life satisfaction in electronic security system. For the achievement of this study selected electronic security system users in Seoul as a population for about 25 days from June 20th, 2008 to July 15th, 2008, segmented. This study selected 378 peoples by distributing 400 unities in total for each 80 peoples throughout purposive sampling method. The final 302 samples were used in statistics. Collected data was analyzed based on the aim of this study using SPSSWIN 16.0, and factor analysis, reliability analysis, stepwise multiple regression analysis and path analysis were used as statistic techniques to analyze. The conclusions are the followings; First, The higher bodily, environmental, mental, informational, and physical security need the more body and property protection satisfaction and facility customer satisfaction. The higher bodily, environmental, and mental security need the more employee service satisfaction. Second, The higher bodily, environmental, informational, and physical security need are perceived, the more influence is marked with life satisfaction and security life satisfaction. Third, The higher personal and property protection, facility, and employee service satisfaction the more security life satisfaction. Also, the higher customer service and personal and property protection satisfaction are perceived, the more influence is marked with life satisfaction. Fourth, Security need sufficiency has little influence on life satisfaction directly, but it has high influences on life satisfaction through customer satisfaction of electronic security system.

The Effect on the Life Satisfaction of the Workers in the Shift Work Service: The Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey (교대근무 서비스 종사자의 생활만족도에 미치는 영향: 제 5차 근로환경조사를 이용하여)

  • Kim, Hyeon-Ah;Lim, So-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.178-187
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    • 2021
  • This study is a descriptive correlation study to identify the factors affecting life satisfaction for shift service workers and is a secondary data analysis study using the raw data from the Fifth Korean Work Environment Survey. Five hundred and seventy-seven study subjects were selected from 20-year-old wage workers who had more than one year of work experience at the time of the survey and had worked more than 40 hours a week. The analysis used SPSS 23.0 WIN, including a t-test, one-way ANOVA by Scheffe test, Pearson's correlation oefficients, and Hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Regarding the general characteristics of the subjects, there was a difference in life satisfaction according to age, educational level, industrial type, and subjective health status. The higher the work-life balance and work satisfaction of the shift service worker, the higher the life satisfaction. In addition, social support had a moderating effect on the relationship between work-life balance and work satisfaction of shift service workers. Active social support, work satisfaction, and work-life balance improvement promotion programs were developed and applied to shift work service workers considering the factors influencing life satisfaction, thereby improving the life satisfaction of work shift service workers.

Housing consumption and the propensity of residential mobility over family life cycle (가족생활주기별 주거소비 및 주거이동 지향성에 관한 연구)

  • 김순미
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.233-248
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this study were 1) to identify housing consumption over family life cyle and 2) to analyze the propensity of residential mobility and its contributing factors over family life cycle. For these purposes the 1993 KHPS data was used. The sample in this study consisted of 2,796 couple households. Satistics employed for the analysis were frequencies means and logistic regression analysis. As the number of children and the children's age increased the housing consumption increased. There were many factors such as husband's education satisfaction of health and family relations monthly income wealth debt owning a car home ownership duration of residence and the satisfaction with housing contributing to housing consumption and propensity to move. Those with home ownership higher wealth higher satisfaction with health higher expenditure, longer duration of residence and higher satisfaction with housing tend to move more frequently. However those with low educational attai ment less satisfaction with family relation less income and having no debts were likely to move.

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