• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.47-58
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• 2004

This study is designed to provide some basic materials for finding better ways to promote student-parent communication in order to elevate the sense of self-esteem among middle school students and to talk about the importance of communication between students and parents through looking at the current student-parent communication reality resulting from socio-demographic changes among male and female middle school students and analyzing some influences student-parent communication has on students' self-esteem. To attain the aforementioned purpose, total 650 2nd grade and 3rd grade middle school students were asked to fill out the questionnaire. The schools that they are attending are 2 schools in Gwangju City and 2 schools in a township in Jeonnam. 617 students responded to the survey. In order to see the general characteristics and the distribution of major variables of the respondents, the data were used to produce frequency. percentile, standard deviation and correlation quotient. and t-test. one-way Anova, Duncan's multiple range test and multiple regression analysis techniques were put to use. The results from this study are as follows: student groups that have good relations with other students seemed to be more open and active in their communication with their mother and father. Female students and students in their 2nd grade had more open talking relations with their mothers than male students and students in their 3rd grade. Students had more open talking relations with their father when father's occupation is office worker. In the difference of self-esteem that results from variables in communication between students and parents, a significant variance was presented in the level of the self-esteem of middle school students. When they had open communication with both parents, they had a high sense of self-esteem. and when their communication style was problematic, they had a low sense of self-esteem. When they had better relations with other students, when they had more open communication styles with their mother, when they had better school records, when they felt more satisfaction with communication With their father, they showed a higher level of self-esteem.

• Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.85-94
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• 2007

Purpose: This study examined the effects of Interpersonal Relationship Improvement Program Applied MMTIC on self-esteem and interpersonal relationships. Method: The survey was carried out from September to November, 2005. The subjects were 32 middle school students in G City. To test the effects of the Interpersonal Relationship Improvement Program Applied MMTIC, the subjects were divided into two groups, 16 in the experimental group and 16 in the control group. The research design used in this study was a nonequivalent control group pre-test and post-test design in quasi-experimental research. The research tools included MMTIC(Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children), self-esteem scale, and interpersonal relationship scale. The collected data was analyzed using Chi-square test, paired t-test, and t-test on the SPSS/WIN 10.0 program. Result: Significant differences were found in the self-esteem scores and interpersonal relationship between the middle school students who had participated in the Interpersonal Relationship Improvement Program Applied MMTIC and those who did not. Conclusion: Therefore, it appears that the Interpersonal Relationship Improvement Program Applied MMTIC is a useful nursing intervention for improving the self-esteem and interpersonal relationships of middle school students.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.51-61
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• 2011

Objectives: The main purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with depression of middle school students in relation to self-esteem, type A behavior pattern, and locus of control. Methods: A survey was administered to a convenience sample of 309 middle school students. The data analysis procedure included frequency distribution, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression using depression as the dependent variable. Results: The prevalence of depression was 27.2%. Stepwise multiple regression revealed that the factors such as self-esteem(${\beta}$=0.422, p<0.001), type A behavior pattern(${\beta}$=0.166, p<0.001), and locus of control(${\beta}$=-0.165, p<0.001) turned out to be significant affecting factors. Forty nine percent of variance in depression was explained by these factors(40% of variance by self-esteem). Conclusions: The findings suggest that personal internalizing variables should be considered when developing mental health education program to prevent the occurrence of depression for middle school students.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.131-146
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• 2001

The purpose of this study were to develop cooperative learning lesson plan for middle school home economics class and to identify the effect of cooperative learning on students\` self-esteem. The content of lesson was chosen from the food and nutrition section of home economics textbooks for middle school. The main structure of the lesson plan stems from $\boxDr$Lesson Plan Guide of Structuring Cooperative Learning Lesson Plan for Teachers$\boxUl$ by D. Johnson. R Johnson and E. Holubec. Various kinds of references including media reading materials cooperative group activity reports and cooperative group activity checking lists were newly developed according to the content of lesson. Eight hour lesson plans were developed and applied to 2nd grade middle school students and pre-test and post-test were taken to test the effect of Johnson\`s cooperative learning method on students\` self-esteem. Students at a Middle School located in Seoul were divided into two grouts, the three classes as experimental group and the other three classes as control group. The data were analyzed by ANCOVA using SPSS/WIN program. As a result, the hypothesis that the degree of self-esteem of the experimental group is higher than that of control group was adopted (P.(001). Among the sub-factors of self -esteem. the global self-esteem and the social-peer self-esteem scores of the experimental group were higher than that of the control group(p.(001 each). but the school-academic self-esteem score was not different (p> .05) According to the post-experiment free-style report. student as a dynamic subject could get initiatives and interests in home economics class more effectively by cooperative learning. Therefore, it could be said that cooperative learning has positive effect on the promotion of students\` self-esteem and is considered to be a good teaching method of home economics subject.

• The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.43-56
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• 2012

Objectives: The main purpose of this study was to examine factors influencing depression of middle school students in relation to coping behavior, social support, and self-esteem. Methods: The questionnaire survey was carried out on a convenience sample of 442 middle school students. The data analysis procedure included frequency, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression using depression as the dependent variable. Results: The prevalence of depression was 16.7%. Multiple regression revealed that the factors such as "negative" coping(${\beta}$=.29, p<.001), friend support(${\beta}$=-.23, p<.001), "social support pursuing" coping(${\beta}$=-.22, p<.001), school record(${\beta}$=.15, p<.001), self-esteem(${\beta}$=-.13, p<.01), family support(${\beta}$=-.13, p<.01), "agressive" coping(${\beta}$=.11, p<.01) turned out to be significant affecting factors. Forty six percent of varience in depression was explained by these factors. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that to prevent the occurrence of depression, psychosocial aspects including emotional support should be considered when developing mental health education program for middle school students.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.21-46
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• 2005

This is to deal with the cure writing activities for middle school students who have lower self-esteem. It also tries to find out what the structure of human mind and self-esteem are. Furthermore, Bibliotherapy program to overcome the lower self-esteem are designed for the students with the problems.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.399-406
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• 2009

The goal of this research is to examine the influence degree of participant of sports on self-esteem of middle school students. By stratified cluster random sampling method 420, middle school student living in D city joined the survey; it was used to derive the result of this research. Among them, 25 results were excepted by the lack of reliability or un-enough answer rate, so 395 results were used for the research. To analyze collected data, used statistical technique statistical analysis technique frequency, factor analysis, t-test and ANOVA. Through such method of study and formality, this study deduced following result. First, self-esteem of middle school students shows change by the frequency of sports activity. Second, self-esteem of middle school students shows change by the interval of sports activity. Third, self-esteem of middle school students shows change by the intensity of sports activity.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2005

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of the lesson using Multiple Intelligence on self-esteem in the unit of Resources management and environment in Technology${\cdot}$Home Economics of middle school. In this study, the lesson using Multiple Intelligence theory for six hours was developed and applied to a class of 37 students of middle school as an experimental group. Lecture-style lesson was applied to the other class of 37 students as a control group. Significant differences between pre-test and post-test scores of self-esteem were found in the experimental group. Post-test scores of self-esteem were higher than pre-test scores of self-esteem in the experimental group. There were no significant differences between pre-test and post-test scores of self-esteem in the control group. It was found that the lesson using Multiple Intelligence theory was effective in improving self-esteem of middle school students.

• Korean Parent-Child Health Journal
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among TV involvement, body image concern, restrained eating behavior and self-esteem of middle school students in one city. Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was used. A total of 229 boys and 267 girls enrolled in the middle schools completed self report questionnaire in June, 2009. The data was analyzed by using SPSS/WIN 17.0. Results: Of boys, 24.5% was over-weight/obese while 12.7% of girls was over-weight/obese. Compared to boys, girls involved more in TV (p<.001), and showed more body image concern, and restrained eating behavior (p<.001), but had lower self-esteem (p=.020). A significant positive correlation between TV involvement and body image concern was found in both boys and girls. However, only girls showed a negative association between TV involvement and self-esteem, and as well as between restrained eating behavior and self-esteem. As grouped by BMI, both boys and girls showed significantly different scores in restrained eating behavior (p<.001). Conclusion: These results suggest that the increased number of obese young adolescent need a weight management program including control for unhealthy eating behavior. The influence of mass-media on distorted body image for adolescents should be corrected. Also, an intervention for young obese girls to promote their self-esteem needs to be developed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.52-61
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• 2023

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to compare the characteristics between adolescents who have run away from home before and who have contemplated running away from home before, and to find risk factors that predict runaway behavior among them. Methods: The data of 「the survey on adolescents' right to adequate housing and the way to ensure their housing with the focus on social exclusion」 by the National Youth Policy Institute (2020) were analyzed. A total of 494 adolescents were included in the study. Descriptive statistics, x2 test, t-test, and simple and multiple logistic regressions were carried out using SAS 9.2. Results: Gender, depression, anxiety, self-esteem, and school level were significantly different between the two groups. From the multivariate analysis, the adjusted odds ratio for runaway behavior was significantly higher in male students (AOR: 2.14, p<.001), lower in the middle economic class than in the high economic class (AOR: 0.64, p=.051), lower in the 4th quartile group of self-esteem (AOR: 0.52, p=.041), and higher in high school students (AOR: 1.55, p=.050). Conclusion: Considering that male students, students from wealthier families, students with low self-esteem, and high school students are high-risk groups for runaway behavior, among adolescents who have contemplated running away before, interventions targeting these groups are needed.