• 한국교육학연구
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.205-230
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• 2017

본 연구는 탈북청소년 교육 종단연구 3-5차년도 자료를 사용하여 탈북청소년의 사회자본과 학교적응의 변화 및 그 관계를 종단적으로 분석하고자 수행되었다. 잠재성장모형 분석을 실시한 결과, 탈북청소년의 사회자본이나 학교적응은 고정된 것이 아니라 시간의 경과와 함께 변화하는 것으로 드러났다. 이 같은 변화에서 뚜렷한 평균적인 흐름은 발견되지 않았으나 변화의 개인차는 존재하는 것으로 파악되었다. 한편 탈북청소년의 초기 사회자본은 당시의 학교적응에는 영향을 미치지만, 학교적응의 변화에까지 지속적으로 영향을 주지는 않는 것으로 확인되었다. 탈북청소년의 학교적응 변화는 그들의 사회자본이 어떻게 달라지는지에 의해 영향을 받는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 이러한 결과는 탈북청소년의 사회자본을 강화시킴으로써 그들의 학교적응 수준도 점진적으로 개선시킬 수 있는 여지가 있음을 시사한다.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.324-331
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• 2000

A deteriorating North Korean economy, coupled with a devastating natural disaster such as flooding and drought in recent years, brought about a severe food shortage and malnutrition problem which caused a migration of its population including young children to neighboring countries. We conducted a nutritional survey on a total of 436 children, aged 4-19 years old, who migrated to the China side of the border from July to September, 1999. The study subjects were interviewed by Korean-Chinese interviewers who were trained for anthropometric measurements and dietary surveys. Heights, weights, and chest circumference of the subjects were 70-90% of the South Korean reference values for the corresponding age and sex. Dietary intakes of the subjects were found to be extremely poor-the average number of food, mostly of plant origin, consumed in a day was 2.8, and the proportion of the subject who reported to take all three meals in a day while residing in North Korea was as low as 36.2%. Ninety five percent of the subjects had at least one clinical symptom related to malnutrition, 68.6% had 2-4 symptoms, and 15.1% had 5 or more symptoms. The results of this study provided an objective data for the first time on the severity of the food crisis and malnutrition problem that afflicted North Korean older children and adolescents as well as children aged 7 or under as previously reported elsewhere. the wasted and stunted children and youths prevailing in North Korea could exert a negative influence on the country's health and economy. More researches are needed in the future to investigate on the impact of malnutrition in North Korean children on the country's social, economic, and cultural state as well as on the health and nutrition situation.