• 한국가족관계학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.201-228
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• 2018

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to classify never-married types of adult men and women and explore factors related to these types. Never-married types were categorized into 4 types according to continuity and voluntariness: continuous voluntary type; changed voluntary type; continuous non-voluntary type; and changed non-voluntary type. Factors related to types of being single were examined in terms of socio-demographic factors, individual and psychological factors (self-esteem, depression), dating relationship factors (current relationship status), original family factors (parental conflict, relationship with parents, parents' demand for marriage), marriage related factors (division of roles after marriage), and occupation related factors (work values, employment instability). Method: As for research method, a survey was conducted with never-married adult men and women between the ages of 35 and 49 living in Seoul, Gyeonggi or Incheon areas. Of 300 copies of questionnaire distributed, data from 295 copies were processed using SPSS 24.0 program for multinomial logit analysis. Results: The study results showed that, of never-married men respondents, continuous voluntary type accounted for 20.5%; changed voluntary type 18.9%; continuous non-voluntary type 49.6%; and changed non-voluntary type 11.0%. It was found that the factors related to continuous non-voluntary type among never-married men are age, religion, average monthly income, while the factors related to changed voluntary type are religion, self-esteem, depression, and frequency and strength of parental conflict, while the factor related to changed non-voluntary type men was living with parents. Examining never-married women respondents, it was found that, continuous voluntary type accounted for 33.9%; changed non-voluntary type 19.6%; continuous non-voluntary type 22.6%; and changed voluntary type 23.8%. The factor related to continuous non-voluntary type among never-married women was parents' demand for marriage, while the factors related changed voluntary type were age, depression and strength of parental conflict. Also, the factors related to changed non-voluntary type of never-married women were age, religion, living with parents, depression and parents' demand for marriage. Conclusion: In conclusion, it was found that continuous non-voluntary type formed the largest group among never-married men, whereas continuous voluntary type was the majority in never-married women. Both never-married men and women chose to remain single when they are living with their parents and their parental conflict is intense. Parents' demand for marriage was related to women, but not to men.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.151-166
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• 2016

This study examined frequency of contact between parents and their non-coresident, never-married daughters and sons compared to children in other marital statuses. Despite an increasing number of never married adults, little is known about the extent to which they may be willing to remain connected to and exchange support with their parents. The data were drawn from first wave of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA, 2006). For analyses, respondents who had at least one non-coresident child aged 40 or older were selected, resulting in the analytic sample of 2,755 parents with 7,741 children. Both sibling fixed effects regression models and regression models with robust standard errors were estimated using the xtreg and reg procedures in STATA. Findings revealed significant marital status by gender interaction effects on face-to-face contact. Never-married daughters were more likely to see their parents compared to their married, divorced, or widowed counterparts. Never-marred sons, on the other hand, reported slightly lower levels of in-person contact with their parents in comparison to married sons and lower levels of contact compared to divorced or widowed sons. More frequent contact via phone, mail, or email was reported in daughter-parent relationship compared to son-parent relationship, but no significant marital status by gender interactions were observed.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제60권3호
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• pp.391-406
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• 2022

This study examined the experience of middle-aged women, centering on the home as the residence of never-married children. I conducted interviews with four such women in their 50s and 60s who had experienced the residential independence of never-married children within the past five years, and a variety of field texts were used as research texts. Through reconstructing the participants' experiences, two main themes emerged: experiencing anxiety regarding alienation from their child and expecting to resolve this anxiety through the marriage of their child. The participants were anxious about their never-married children, and this study found that at the root of this was anxiety regarding being alienated from their children. The participants often attempted to visit their children's homes to relieve such anxiety but, as their children often discouraged this, the situation was aggravated. Thus, the participants wished for their children to marry, as they aspired to restore an intimate relationship with them through such an event. These results imply that tensions and conflicts between parents and children may arise due to the independence of never-married children.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2010

This study uses qualitative data to examine the dynamics and barriers of the delayed family formation phenomenon among the never-married professionals in Korea. The data was drawn from focus groups of 14 never-married professionals aged 28 through 40. The investigation depicts several dimensions of the circumstances of never-married professionals that have not garnered much attention in the literature. This research provides initial evidence of critical influences within the socio-cultural contexts of the participants' dating behaviors as well as the willingness to many. Two different realities, based on gender, were discovered: both male and female voluntarily delayed marriage to pursue their career, education and success. As both reached their career goals, however, male participants experienced a rise in their value as a marriage prospect whereas females experienced decreased value as a marriage prospect. Hence, neo-traditional familism was the dominant value among the participants, but it also functioned as a major barrier to family formation because in the present value system, female professionals, must still struggle with the dual burdens of work and family management.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.51-59
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• 1992

Previous studies indicated that unmarried persons are subject to higher mortality than the married, and that the differentials are more marked for male than for females. There are two major approaches to explaining the marital status differentials in mortality ; selection function and protection function of marriage. Following protection fucntion, this study develops the new "instrumental / expressive sex-role" hypothesis in order to explain why marriage protects males more against death. The hypothesis expects that male's instrumental role and female's expressive role have direct effect as well as indirect effect through social integration on sex differential mortality by marital status. for the hypothesis testing, Korea and US vital statistics and census data are used to compute age-specific , age-adjusted mortality rates and their ratios for persons in different marital status. Major findings are as follows. 1)For both Korea and US being married is more advantageous to males than females, ad being widowed, divorced, and separated is more disadvantageous to males, while being never-married is more disadvantageous to females, 2) For Korea, the never married men and women have the highest mortality rates, 3) For US the never married women have the highest mortality rate, while the divorced, separated, and widowed men have the highest mortality rate. Fro both Korea and US data, selection function is rejected, but instrumental/expressive sex-role hypothesis succeeds in accounting for the sex and marital status differential in mortality.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.192-198
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• 2015

본 연구는 30세 이상 한국성인의 결혼상태와 채소섭취와의 연관성을 분석하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 2007~2010년 국민건강영양조사 자료를 이용하여 조사 참가자의 성별, 연령대별 채소섭취량을 비교하고, 채소를 권장섭취횟수보다 부족하게 섭취할 위험도를 분석하였다. 분석결과, 결혼상태에 따라 성별, 연령대별 채소섭취량에 차이가 있었다. 남녀 모두 유배우자 동거 집단의 김치를 포함한 채소섭취량이 결혼한 적 없는 집단과 별거/이혼/사별 집단과 비교해 가장 높았다. 김치를 포함한 채소를 권장섭취횟수보다 적게 섭취할 위험도는 유배우자 동거집단에 비해 결혼한 적 없거나 별거/이혼/사별인 경우 높아지는 경향을 보였다. 65세 이상 남자의 경우 결혼한 적 없음/별거/이혼/사별 집단은 유배우자 동거 집단과 비교해 채소섭취량이 낮았으며, 채소를 권장섭취횟수보다 적게 섭취할 위험도는 높았다. 결혼상태와 채소섭취량의 관계를 명확히 파악하기 위해서는 결혼상태와 식생활의 변화를 함께 조사할 수 있는 코호트 연구가 수행돼야 한다. 또한 결혼상태의 지속기간, 결혼상태의 만족도 등 결혼상태를 다양하게 파악할 수 있는 정보와 함께, 식생활 상태를 평가할 수 있는 자료를 수집해야 한다.

• 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.183-214
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• 2017

본 연구목적은 비혼 남녀들을 대상으로 결혼에 대한 생각과 비혼 선택 이유에 대한 심층면접 내용을 분석하여 비혼 선택에 영향을 미치는 심리적 특성에 대해 알아보고자 하였다. 이를 위한 연구방법으로는 장기적으로 결혼의향이 없다고 밝힌 9명의 20대 중반에서 30대 후반 남녀들을 대상으로 심층면접을 실시한 후, 합의적 질적 연구방법(Consensual Qualitative Research: CQR)을 활용하여 결과를 분석하였다. 심층면접 내용을 분석한 결과 2개의 영역, 10의 하위영역, 25개의 범주로 도출되었다. 그 연구결과 첫째, 참여자들은 결혼을 부정적으로 인식하고 있었으며, 결혼에 대한 기대가 없는 것이 아니라 오히려 비현실적인 기대를 가지고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 참여자들의 대부분은 부모의 가부장적인 역할수행에 대해 자녀로서 부정적인 감정을 느끼고 있었으며, 부모처럼 살고 싶지 않음이 나타났다. 또한 자신의 결혼생활을 부모로 부터 분리하여 바라보고 있지 못함도 보고하였다. 셋째, 참여자들의 대부분은 친밀한 대상과의 관계형성에서 어려움을 느끼고 있었으며, 반복되는 관계갈등 패턴으로 인해 배우자나 결혼에 대해 기대를 갖는 것이 더욱 어려웠음이 나타났다. 넷째, 참여자들이 결혼하지 않으려는 선택에 있어 경험 회피적 성향과 개별성 추구 성향이라는 심리적 측면이 나타났다. 참여자들의 대부분은 결혼생활에 대한 실패를 예견하였고, 비혼을 선택함으로써 자신이 예상하는 불편한 감정과 고통들을 사전에 차단하려는 시도임을 보고하였다. 또한 타인과의 연결(연합성)보다 개별성을, 집단적 가치보다 개인적 가치를 더 중요하게 여기고 있음을 보고하였다. 본 연구의 참여자들은 부모나 주변 사람들의 결혼생활에 대해 부정적인 평가를 내리고 있거나 부정적인 영향을 받고 있음을 나타내었다. 이는 비혼의 유형에 있어 소극적 요인에 더 가깝다고 보이는 바, 적극적 비혼 요인에 해당되는 대상들의 특성이 어떠한지 대해 차후의 연구로서 기대해 본다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.718-727
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• 2017

본 연구는 1인 가구의 경제적 노후준비가 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향이 미혼과 기혼에 따라 차이가 있는지 분석함으로써, 이를 바탕으로 1인 가구의 미혼과 기혼의 차별화된 정책적 대안을 마련하는데 필요한 기초자료를 제공하는 것을 목적으로 하고 있다. 분석 자료는 통계청의 2015년 사회조사 자료로 30세 이상의 1인 가구이며, 미혼, 기혼(이혼, 사별)인 4,406명을 대상으로 분석하였다. 분석 결과 첫째, 경제적 노후준비는 미혼과 기혼에 따라 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 있었고, 기혼보다 미혼이 경제적 노후준비를 더 많이 하는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 삶의 만족도는 기혼에 비해 미혼의 삶의 만족도가 더 높게 나타났다. 셋째, 경제적 노후준비가 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향에 대한 미혼과 기혼의 차이를 비교한 결과 미혼, 기혼 모두 경제적 노후준비가 삶의 만족도에 영향을 미치며 기혼의 경제적 노후준비가 삶의 만족도에 더 많은 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.177-193
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• 2014

In this study, we investigated the effect of family values and the resource factors provided by parents on marriage intention among men and women in their 30s and 40s who have never married. The study participants were 300 never-married men and women in their 30s and 40s living in Seoul and its suburbs. The participants were chosen via purposive sampling. The study results are follows. First, according to the analysis of the subjects' family values and the resource factors provided by parents, both family values and the resource provided factors by parents showed higher scores than the median. Subjects had higher scores than the median score in regards to marriage intention, indicating that they had a greater intention to marry. Second, a multiple regression analysis was conducted to identify the effect of the socio-demographic characteristics of subjects, family values, and the resource factors provided by parents on marriage intention. As a result, age, the need of marriage and gender-role attitudes prevalent in family values, and the economic resources among the resource factors provided by parents had significant effects on marriage intention. Thus, the older the age of the subjects, the more traditional the view of marriage and gender-role attitudes, and the greater the amount of economic resources provided by parents, the greater the subjects' intention to marry.

• 한국사회정책
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.97-115
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• 2017

전체 미혼모의 90% 이상이 입양을 선택했던 과거와 다르게, 최근 들어 자녀의 양육을 선택하는 미혼모가 눈에 띄게 증가하기 시작하였다. 이와 더불어 연령, 교육수준, 노동시장 참여 등의 인구사회학적 특성들도 과거에 비하여 전체적으로 향상되는 추세이다. 그러나 여전히 많은 미혼모들이 빈곤을 비롯하여 다양한 어려움을 호소하고 있다. 이는 오랜 사회적 편견과 차별 속에서 자녀 양육과 생계부양자의 역할을 동시에 수행하는 양육미혼모가 직면하는 어려움들은 개인적 특성의 발전 향상만으로 해결될 수 없으며, 미혼모의 자녀양육 지원을 위한 사회적 개입이 필요함을 보여준다. 이에 본 연구는 한국사회 미혼모 지원정책의 전개과정 및 패러다임의 변화를 살펴보고, 현재 미혼모 가족을 위해 제공되고 있는 정책의 현황과 한계를 전반적 정책 기조의 변화 속에서 검토하였다. 한국사회의 미혼모 정책은 2000년대 중반을 기점으로 기존의 입양 중심에서 미혼모의 자녀양육을 지원하는 쪽으로 패러다임 전환이 이루어진 것으로 관찰되었다. 그러나 현재 양육미혼모에게 제공되는 있는 사회적 지원의 수준은 정책기조의 변화에 미치지 못하고 있어, 미혼모가 자녀를 양육하기에는 아직도 상당한 어려움이 따르고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막 결론에서는 미혼모의 자녀양육을 효율적으로 지원하기 위한 정책적 함의를 제시하였다.