• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.125-140
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to find out the high school student's need for the program. The data was collected from 1125 high school students and their parents. The results of this study are like the following. 1 High school students and their parents all showed more than 3 points on the need for the program. 2. They revealed the highest need for programs on school as well as peer-related tasks and self-related tasks, respectively. On the other hand, parents were found to have the need for programs than student do. 3. Significant differences were found among students in their major, class type, and also among parents in gender of their children, class type, residential area, education status, and monthly average income. 4. Highschool-students and their parents all showed the highest points and displayed interest in selecting academic course suitable for their aptitude.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.530-536
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to classify the clusters based on two behavioral intentions toward purchasing originals and counterfeits of foreign fashion luxury brands and to examine the differences in personality characteristics and demographics. This study included attitude toward counterfeit, consumer ethnocentrism, materialism, and need for uniqueness as personality characteristics and gender, monthly household income, and pocket money as demographics. Data were gathered by surveying university students living in Seoul metropolitan area using convenient sampling, and 320questionnaires were used in the statistical analysis. In analyzing data, cluster analysis, x-test, and One-way ANOVA were conducted. As a result of the cluster analysis based on two behavioral intentions toward purchasing originals and counterfeits, four groups were identified. There were significant differences in attitude toward counterfeit and materialism according to the purchasing intention clusters. x-tests also showed there were significant differences between the number of male and female subjects in each of the four clusters. Females are significantly more represented than females in all four clusters.

• The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.191-206
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• 2015

This study investigates the differences in retirement preparation and asset type in the elderly life of employees in their forties and fifties. Retirement preparation showed a score of 3.30, and the emotional preparation dimension of retirement preparations showed a slightly higher score. The retention of guarantee assets(insurance and, national pension) scored higher than other types of assets. There was a high correlation between economic preparation and the type of asset retention. According to the hierarchical regression analysis, economic preparation, monthly income, home ownership, and the education level had significant effects on assets retention, and the explanatory power of these independent variables was 39.7%.

• Women's Health Nursing
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.115-122
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• 2007

Purpose: This study was done to identify health behaviors, physical function, and life satisfaction in elderly women. Also, the study was done to identify the relationship among the variables of health behaviors, physical function, and life satisfaction in elderly women. Method: The subjects of this study were 205 elderly women. Data were collected through personal interviews using questionnaires from March to October 2005. Data were analyzed with the SPSS program, Result: There was a significant difference in health behaviors related to spouse, life satisfaction and education, social security and monthly income. There were significant relationships among health behaviors, physical function, and life satisfaction for elderly women. Conclusion: The findings of this study give useful information for constructing a health-welfare program for elderly women.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.151-159
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• 2001

This study was conducted to determine the image of functional foods and the meal patterns for health behavior of 242 persons in Daegu area. Anthropometric data showed that female and male were 38, and 204 respectively. The most BMI group was standard group(55.4% )The most eaten functional foods were Lactobicilli goods while the lowest functional foods were Taurine goods. The highest functional food image score on the basis of Likert's 5 scales was 3.89(expensive) and the lowest score was 2.98 (experienced in eating functional food). Accepted food groups were significantly associated with eating rate of protein food and age(p < 0.01),eating rate of cabohydrate foods and sex(p < 0.05), eating rate of mineral foods and monthly average income, eating rate of vitamin foods and sex.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.127-142
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• 2004

This paper examines the relationship between children's English proficiency in grade three and English learning environment and experiences before entering elementary school. In English learning environment and experiences, three influences consisting of children, home environment, and environmental influences of English learning are used to find out which influences contributed to children's English proficiency in grade three of elementary school. The result of this study shows that children with high interest in English have higher proficiency in all language skills reading, writing, listening, and speaking than that of children with low interests. For parents' influences, parents' high interests toward their children's English leaning and high monthly income result in children's high English proficiency. For English environmental influences, children who start at the early age and continue studying English have higher English proficiency.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.872-881
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• 1998

The purposed of this study was to investigate the dimensions of clothing purchasing motives and to examine differences of these dimensions according to the demographic variables, and to examine the relationship between the clothing attitudes and clothing purchasing motives. The subjects selected for the final analysis were 595 adults rainging from 20's to 40's in age. As for the analytic method. Cronbach's $\alpha$, factor analysis, one-way ANOVA, Tukey's multiple range test, frequency and percentage were applied. The conclusions of this study were as follows: 1. The clothing purchasing motive was classified into five dimensions: advertising and promotion, finding of clothing meeting one's own taste, extra income, practical purchasing needs and impulse purchase. And the dimensions of clothing purchasing motive were significantly different according to monthly expenditure on clothing, sex and educational level. 2. The relationship between the clothing attitudes dimensions and clothing purchasing motive dimensions were significant.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.21-32
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• 2003

This study analyzed the influences of personal variables and perception of social support on the anxiety, depression and self-esteem of 102 children with cancer living in Seoul. Data were analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, and hierarchical multiple regression. Results showed that personal variables that influenced depression, anxiety and self-esteem of children with cancer were sex, grade in school, monthly income of the family, and regularity of school attendance. Perception of social support influenced depression and self-esteem; subjects higher in perception of social support were lower in depression and higher in self-esteem.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.105-119
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• 1999

A human being's pursuit is that of a better quality of life and the disabled naturally want to do so. But challenged people's lives have not improved apace with the general development of our society as a whole. Specially, in a patriarchal society like Korea, challenged women are in a less favorable situation. Challenged women can enjoy more healthy and more happy life in a given condition. Thus, in this research, we closely examined the women's general characteristics, disabled characteristics, health condition(subjective health condition, experiences of diseases, stress value, etc), satisfaction value of life who have handicaps of limb or/and body. On the 17th of September through the 14th of October '98, a nation-wide retardation compaign was held and 200 people were served by telephone. Then we analysed primary factors on quality of life. As results, monthly income, how they think of their economic level, their subjective health condition, and the stress level that the success depends on self influenced quality of life.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.103-118
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• 2003

This study is aimed to investigate Internet Addiction among youths who are main users of computers and internet and related variables. The survey was conducted to 520 students from middle and high schools on Jeju and analyzed catmod Regression. model was used to analyse the efficients of the independent variables on the three groups according to Internet addiction level. The major results of this study are as follows; First, By the viewpoint of Young's criteria, it revealed that most young people(68.5 ％) use the internet at the level of occasional problem-solution users. The percentage two groups of average on-line users and internet addicts were 27.3% and 4.2%, respectively. Second, the variables having significant effects on the of internet addiction group are gender, the number of brothers, adaptation to school life, mother's age, and family control of internet use. Third, the variables which have a significant effect on the of average internet users group referred to internet addicts group are gender, adaptation to school life, satisfaction with family life, average monthly household income, and the number of visits to private computer establishments.