• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.154-160
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• 2021

Objectives: This study identified the association between excessive exposure to screen media and behavioral and emotional problems in elementary school students. Methods: A total of 331 parents of children aged 7-10 years were recruited from "The Kids Cohort for Understanding of Internet Addiction Risk Factors in Early Childhood (K-CURE)" study. Children's demographics, household media ownership, screen time, and behavioral/emotional problems were assessed using a parental questionnaire. Children's behavior/emotional problems were measured using the Korean version the of Child Behavior Checklist (K-CBCL) score. Results: The total K-CBCL score in the screen overuse group was 51.18±9.55, significantly higher than 47.28±10.09 in the control group (t=2.14, p=0.05). For each subscale, the externalization score (51.65±10.14, 48.33±8.97, respectively; t=2.02, p<0.05), social problem score (55.41±6.11, 53.24±5.19, respectively; t=2.27, p<0.05), and rule breaking behavior score (55.71±6.11, 53.24±5.19, respectively; t=2.27, p<0.05) were significantly higher in the screen overuse group than in the control group. In addition, the screen overuse group also had a significantly higher usage rate than the control group, even if limited to smartphones, not only on weekdays (3.56±2.08, 1.87±2.02, respectively; t=-4.597, p<0.001) but also weekends (1.62±0.74, 1.19±0.83, respectively; t=-3.14, p=0.003). Conclusion: The study suggested that screen media overuse patterns in children in Korea are particularly relevant to the excessive use of smartphones and are related to higher risks of emotional and behavioral problems.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.23-31
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• 2022

Background: Potato is the main crop of Ardabil Plain (accounting for one-fifth of potato production in Iran). Its health hazard risk to farmers is rising due to the increasing rate of pesticide use. The present study analyzes potato farmers' health hazard risk in the use of chemical pesticides. Methods: The rate of pesticide use by farmers (n = 370) was first compared with the recommended dosage (on pesticide label). Then, a composite index was employed to estimate the health hazard risk of farmers during pesticide use, and the variables accounting for pesticide overuse and nonoveruse were analyzed. Safety behavior was examined in four steps, namely of pesticide purchase and storage, preparation, application, and postapplication. Results: It was found that 74.6 percent of potato farmers used pesticides in higher concentrations than the recommended dosage. The higher average rate of pesticide use versus recommendation (label instruction) was related to Chlorpyrifos and Trifluralin, and the highest average health hazard risk among farmers was related to the use of Chlorpyrifos and Metribuzin. Farmers with a higher risk of health hazard displayed much lower safety behavior than the other farmers at all steps of pesticide use. Conclusion: The most important variables discriminating the health hazard risk of farmers' overuse included health behavior identity, attitude, knowledge and awareness, and cues to action. Therefore, using social media, holding local exhibitions, and engaging local leaders and skilled farmers in the region to improve farmers' attitudes and health behavior identity toward the dangers of chemical pesticides can play a significant role in motivating farmers' display of overuse preventive behaviors.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.183-193
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the influence of parental media use, parents' educational needs regarding media use, and parents' media guidance for children on the children's media use. Methods: The participants were 161 parents of elementary school children in the 1st and 4th grades. Data were collected through self-report questionnaires, and analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 19.0 IBM program. Results: The average times for watching television and using the internet in the children were 11.44 hours and 5.89 hours per week, respectively. Children's time watching television was influenced by parents' time watching television, children's gender (girl), and parents' educational needs. Children's television dependency was influenced by parents' educational needs, parents' time watching television, and parents' age (under 36 years). Time using the internet and internet dependency in the children were influenced by parents' educational needs, family monthly income (under 3 million won), and parents' guidance for children on watching television. Conclusion: The findings indicate that elementary school children's media use is influenced by parental media use, parents' educational needs, and parents' media guidance for children. Therefore parental factors should be considered in developing approaches to provide education programs to prevent media overuse in children.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.173-184
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• 2022

본 연구는 숏폼 동영상 플랫폼 TikTok을 중심으로 미디어 매력성, 미디어 유용성, 이용자 특성 등 세 가지 측면에서 중장년층의 사용 의도, 몰입, 중독에 영향을 미치는 요인을 정량적 연구 방법으로 연구하였다. 최근 중장년층의 숏폼 동영상에 대한 이용자수가 늘어남에 따라 그들의 신체적, 심리적 건강에 대한 위험성이 야기되고 있다. 따라서 연구자들은 중장년층의 숏폼 동영상 이용의도와 중독 경로를 확인할 필요가 있다고 보았다. 연구 결과 TikTok의 매력성과 중장년 이용자의 특성이 매체의 유용성에 적극적인 영향을 주었으며, 또한 미디어의 유용성이 사용의도와 사용행위에 영향을 미치고 몰입과 중독으로 발전할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 고전적인 TAM 이론을 보완할 뿐만 아니라 중장년층이 인터넷을 건강하게 이용할 수 있도록 돕는 데 참고가 될 것으로 보이며, 향후 더 많은 지역의 중장년층의 다양한 인터넷 사용을 위한 미디어 서비스 연구가 확대되길 기대한다.

• 분석과 대안
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.163-194
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• 2022

A transboundary environmental problem refers to an environmental problem that goes beyond a country's territory and damages neighboring countries. It is a difficult problem because, basically, it is a natural, rather than intentional, effect, and it is extremely hard to make a scientific consensus on the cause-effect relations between upstream and downstream nations. Air pollution, especially PM 2.5 and PM 10, is one of the typical cases of transboundary environmental problems in the Northeast Asia. This paper analyzes the constraints of environmental cooperation between China and South Korea to address transboundary air pollution issue. It argues that lack of trust and ideological hostility, rather than, scientific uncertainty, is the biggest obstacle for effective cooperation, and these hostile discourses and ideas are mostly generated by media in the downstream nation, the South Korea. In order to identify how South Korean media frames this issue, this paper searched newspaper articles in the six representative South Korean newspapers during the period of 2014 and 2020, and analyzed about 2,000 articles selected. It finds that South Korean media has framed the transboundary air pollution as a China bashing and related domestic political cleavage issue, while it neglects to show the cooperation attempts that the two countries have made to date. Also, while the media focuses on China hate frame, it has never reported the Chinese government's domestic policies to reduce air pollution and their results. Media's overuse of hate and blame frames not only has disrupted trust building but also it will delay a possible turning point of environmental cooperation between the two countries in the future.

• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.84-92
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• 2022

Background: Topical corticosteroids (TCs) are available both as over-the-counter drugs and prescription medicines at pharmacies. Although they are generally safe drugs, inappropriate and excessive use could result in potential side effects. Thus, it is important to have appropriate knowledge regarding the use of TCs. We performed a cross-sectional survey to assess public knowledge and the potential misuse or overuse of TCs. Methods: A cross-sectional and nationwide online survey was conducted among participants who were aware of TCs. The survey items included sources of information, indications, potential side effects, and methods of application of TCs. A comparative analysis was conducted between those with (TC users) and without (TC non-users) an experience of using TCs. Results: Among 3,000 participants, 74.4% were TC users. The mass media was the most common information source of TCs, and only one-third of the surveyed people relied on pharmacists or doctors for information. Regarding indications and application methods, incorrect answer rate was high in some items, but respondents showed adequate knowledge. However, awareness of the safety of TCs was low. Overall, the TC users showed a higher knowledge of TCs than TC non-users. Conclusions: Public knowledge of the use of TCs appears to be appropriate. However, we found potential misuse or overuse of some items and a lack of awareness of the side effects concerning TCs. Thus, healthcare professionals' significant role is required.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.17-23
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• 2021

SNS 사용자들이 많은 시간을 투자하여 적극적으로 이용함으로써 SNS는 괄목할만한 높은 성장으로 이어지고 있다. SNS의 적극적인 이용으로 인해 점점 스트레스를 경험하거나 중독으로 이르는 부정적 영향도 함께 나타나고 있다. 개인이나 소비자와 기업을 연결해 주는 새로운 매체로써 SNS 사용자들의 이용률이 증가하면서 중독경향성 즉, 중독을 보이는 경우들이 발생하는데, 이에 이용자들이 어떻게 중독에 이르게 되는지에 관심을 기울일 필요가 있다고 본다. 본 연구는 20대 대학생들을 대상으로 하여 SNS 중독에 영향을 미치는 스트레스의 매개효과에 대해 실증적으로 규명하기 위한 목적으로 진행되었다. 본 연구의 분석결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, SNS 특성으로 인한 과다사용에 대한 부정적 평가가 높을수록 SNS 스트레스는 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, SNS 스트레스와 중독과의 관계를 분석한 결과, SNS 스트레스와 SNS 중독에는 유의적인 영향력이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 SNS 스트레스를 받게 되면 이를 해소하기 위해 SNS를 중단하는 것이 아니라 지속적으로 다른 SNS로 이동하여 계속 SNS를 이용하게 된다. SNS를 사용함으로 인해 스트레스를 경험하게 된 사용자들은 또 다른 SNS로 이동하여 계속 SNS를 이용함으로써 스마트폰이나 SNS의 중독을 경험하게 되는 것으로 볼 수 있다. 셋째, SNS 특성으로 인한 과다사용은 SNS 중독에 통계적으로 유의하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 이는 SNS 특성으로 인해 과다사용하는 것은 직접적으로 SNS 중독에 영향을 미치지 않는다고 볼 수 있다. 본 연구는 개인수준뿐만 아니라 소비자-브랜드 간의 관계에서 SNS에 대한 중독적인 행동과 같은 SNS의 부정적 측면을 연구하는 데 도움을 제공하고자 한다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.395-406
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• 2014

본 연구는 최근 급증하는 청소년의 소셜 네트워크 서비스(SNS) 이용이 인터넷을 포함한 미디어 이용시간과 어떠한 상관관계가 있는지를 살펴보고, 그 관계구조 속에서 부모의 이용 제한과 대안활동 참여가 어떠한 매개효과로서 작동되는지를 검증하고자 한다. 이는 청소년의 올바른 미디어 이용 유도를 위해 부모를 통한 이용지도나 활동적 대안활동에 초점을 두는 다양한 가이드와 프로그램이 과연 효과가 있는 것인가에 대한 시사점을 제공하기 위함이다. 분석을 위해서 본 연구는 전국 초, 중, 고등학교 청소년 1572명을 대상으로 설문한 정보통신정책연구원의 "한국미디어패널조사" 자료를 이용하였다. 최종 분석대상은 성별은 남학생이 818명, 여학생이 754명이었고, 초등학생 672명, 중학생 416명, 고등학생 484명이었다. 연구에서 제안한 모형의 적합도 검증을 위해 구조방정식을 통해 분석한 결과, SNS 이용은 미디어 이용시간에 직접적으로 영향을 주는 것이 아니라 대안활동을 매개로 하여 간접적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 보호자의 이용제한은 미디어 이용시간에 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구결과는 진화하는 스마트미디어 환경에서는 더 이상 미디어 이용시간의 감소를 위한 부모의 이용제한 방식과 대안활동 참여가 유의하지 않은 이유를 찾고, 더 나아가 국가와 사회가 미디어중독 현상을 이해하고 해소 대안을 찾는데 의미있는 정책 시사점을 제안해 줄 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.197-201
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• 2017

Populus. caspica L. is an Iranian indigenous poplar species which naturally distributed in the northern part of country. Unfortunately, overuse has removed many of the stems of better form, so that natural stands now usually appear small and crook. Therefore genetic variation for selection of new superior clone of this species is needed. Conventional hybridization system is currently used to induce genetic variation in poplar species but incompatibility barriers have been observed between them. In vitro ovule embryo culture was used to overcome incompatibility obstacle for interspecific hybridization between Populus caspica L. with Populus deltoids L.62/75. Female flowers of Populus caspica L. have artificially been pollinated with pollen grain of P. deltoides 62/75 in one direction using twig and pot crossing system. Ovaries at different ages (7, 14 and 21 days after pollination) were disinfected through 70% ethanol for 1 minute, 5% of sodium-hypochlorite solution for fifteen min followed by three time rising with sterile distil-water. Isolated ovaries were then transferred to MS hormone free medium containing 30 and 60 g/L sucrose for embryo development and germination. Collected data have been analyzed by two factorial experimental designs. The results indicated that there were significant differences between age of embryos for development and germination at ${\alpha}=0.01%$. Highest embryo germination (45%) was observed from 21 days old ovaries. No significant differences were observed between MS culture media containing 30 and 60 g/L for percentages of ovary-embryo germination and number of germinated embryo per ovary at ${\alpha}=0.05%$. Fourteen percentage of embryo germination obtained in MS medium supplemented with 60 g/L sucrose, while only 35% of isolated ovaries were able to germinate in MS containing 30 g/L sucrose. Induced plantlets in 4 cm height were transferred into pots containing soilless (1:1:1 peat, per lit and vermiculite) medium for acclimatization. After successful acclimatization, plants were delivered to nursery.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.667-676
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• 2021

최근 우리나라의 청소년들은 스마트폰 과사용, 많은 학습량에 따른 신체활동 부족 등으로 인하여 자세 불균형의 위험에 노출되어있다. 또한 코로나 19로 인해 효과적인 비대면 운동 서비스에 대한 니즈가 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 이에 착안해 본 연구에서는 청소년들을 대상으로 둥근 어깨 개선의 효과를 제공하면서 비대면 서비스의 한계를 극복하기 위해 근전도 센서를 활용한 운동 서비스를 제안하고자 한다. 둥근 어깨를 개선할 수 있는 운동 프로그램을 구성하고, 효과적으로 운동할 수 있도록 근전도 센서를 연동한 어플리케이션을 구현하였다. 운동 프로그램은 4주 동안 타깃 근육 부위를 번갈아 가며 운동할 수 있도록 구성했고, 이에 따라 변화하는 근전도 수치를 측정하여 피드백을 제공할 수 있는 기능을 부가했다. 본 연구를 통하여 운동 기반의 자세 교정 디지털 서비스의 바탕을 제공하고, 이를 통하여 불균형한 신체를 개선함으로써 건강 증진의 가능성을 도모하고자 한다.