• Human Ecology Research
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• 제59권3호
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• pp.369-386
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to examine which aspects of coresident intergenerational relationships were associated with the life satisfaction of unmarried children in established adulthood and of their parents. In this study, the coresident relationship characteristics included support exchange, emotion, interference-conflict, and perceptions of coresidence. Data were collected from (a) 250 never-married adults who were 35+ years old and lived in Seoul with at least one parent aged 75 years or younger and (b) 250 older adults who were 75 years old or younger and had at least one unmarried child aged 35+ years living in the same household. Our multiple regression analysis of unmarried children showed that the adult child's financial support, the adult child's psychological reliance on parents, the parent's psychological reliance on the child, and relationship quality were significantly related to higher levels of life satisfaction. In contrast, the parent's daily interference, daily conflicts, and anticipation of future care of parents were related to lower levels of life satisfaction. Second, the characteristics that were positively associated with the parent's life satisfaction were the parent's instrumental support, relationship quality, the coresident child's daily interference, positive perceptions of intergenerational coresidence, and expectation of future care of parents. In contrast, the parent's financial support, daily conflicts with the child, and taking intergenerational coresidence for granted were negatively related to the parent's life satisfaction. This study advances our understanding of coresidence between unmarried children in established adulthood and their older parents by focusing on the multiple aspects of intergenerational coresidence.

• 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.37-59
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• 2004

이 연구는 한국 청소년의 학업성취과정에서 부모자녀관계가 어떠한 심리적 역동을 갖는가에 대한 분석을 주된 목적으로 한다. 부모자녀관계는 부모의 사회적 지원, 성취압력, 자녀에 대한 기대, 부모에 대한 죄송함과 존경심 지각을 포함했다. 이러한 부모자녀관계가 자녀의 심리특성으로서 자기조절학습효능감과 성취동기, 그리고 행동특성으로서 공부시간과 학업성적에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 분석하였다. 동시에 학업성취과정에서 과거의 성취도가 어떠한 영향력을 갖는지에 대해서도 종단자료를 통해 분석하고자 했다. 1차 표집대상은 2개 초등학교 6학년 전체 961명이었으며, 그들이 중학교 1학년 시기가 되었을 때 7개 중학교에 분산된 856명이 2차 표집되었다. 그들이 중학교 3학년이 되었을 때 830명(남 411명, 여 419명)이 3차 표집되었고, 3차 표집대상 학생의 부모에게도 질문지를 실시하여 아버지 722명과 어머니 767명이 표집되었다. 3차 표집대상 중에서 학생과 아버지 어머니 자료가 모두 수집된 694명의 자료가 이 연구를 위한 최종분석대상이었다. 분석결과는 다음과 같다: 1) 과거의 학업성취도는 현재의 학업성적을 결정하는 가장 영향력있는 변인이었으며, 자기조절학습효능감과 공부시간에도 영향을 미쳤다. 2) 부모에 대한 죄송함은 성취동기를 높였으며, 성취동기는 공부시간에 직접적으로 관련되었다. 3) 부모에 대한 존경심은 자기조절학습효능감을 증진했으며, 높아진 효능감은 학업성적을 향상시켰다. 4) 부모의 사회적 지원은 자녀의 자기조절학습효능감과 성취동기를 증진했으며, 부모의 성취압력은 성취동기를 높였다. 5) 자녀에 대한 부모의 기대는 자녀의 학업성적에 정적인 영향이 있었다. 6) 자기조절학습효능감은 학업성적에 정적인 영향을 주었다. 이러한 결과로부터, 과거 학업성취가 현재 학업성취를 결정하는 가장 중요한 예언변인이며, 부모자녀관계와 자기조절학습효능감도 청소년의 학업성취에 영향을 주는 중요한 변인임이 확인되었다.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.111-133
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• 2014

The Purpose of this study was to explore the generational conflicts around adult children's taking care of elderly parents and grandparents' caring for grand children. The results of this study were as follows. First, the child care responsibility of the parents' generation is much more intense than that of the parent care responsibility of the children's generation. Second, the norm of parent care has changed from being the responsibility of the eldest son to being the responsibility of all of the children, which had led to an increased probability of conflicts between the two generations due to the differences in expectation and reward. Third, the bilateralization of the kinship increases the responsibility of women in taking care of their families, which leads to an increase in conflict among women of different generations. Finally, the generational conflicts related to family care appear across different social classes.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.75-89
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to explore whether the phenomenon of both married and unmarried adults' cohabiting with their parents in Korean society is "unilaterally parasitic" on the child's side, or is "interdependent", characterized by expectation and dependence from the parent's side. As a result of this study possessing the characteristics of theoretic research, the following propensities of parent-dependent adults have been discussed. First of all, it was discovered that the ratio of adult children dependent on and cohabiting with their parents is considerable. Second, parents cohabiting with their adult children have unfavorable sociological features, such as high age, low level of education and income, and lower standards of education and income, compared to parents in normal households. Third, it was found that parent-dependent adults in Korean society maintain a relatively high rate of financial activity and stable employment-based occupation status. Fourth, it was shown that the level of satisfaction on the relationship between parent-dependent adults and their parents was discovered to be high, which is contrastive to the prediction of negative results based on some previous researches. Single adult children's age, their level of education and financial activity status, and their parents' age and level of education were deducted as variables related to the level of satisfaction of the relationship between parents and their children. It seems that the issue of married and unmarried adults' cohabiting with their parents in Korean society should be approached from various perspectives such as political, economic, socio-cultural and developmental aspects. On the basis of this fundamental awareness and several of the materials, it is pertinent that approaches to both married and unmarried adults' cohabiting with parents in Korean society should be distinguished from approaches to those in Japanese or Western society because it reflects the uniqueness of Korean society. In the phenomenon of married and unmarried adults' cohabiting with their parents in Korean society, there are several factors besides the economic factor, especially the socio-cultural factor that have the characteristics of mutual dependence between parents and their children rather than those of unilateral parasitism, in contrast with the phenomenon in Japanese or Western society. This research was aimed to contribute by establishing basic data for policy making by providing necessary information to treat the issues of instability and anxiety related to families and reflection on the matters of generations and parent-child relationships in current Korean society.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2019

Objective: This study aims to examine the level of parental perceptions and practices on parental role responsibilities for children enrolled in preschools and to verify the differences. Methods: A total of 301 parents whose children were attending preschools participated in this study. The collected data were analyzed for frequency, factor analysis, and reliability. In addition, the t-test and the Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) were performed. Results: First, there are relatively high levels of perception and practices of parental role responsibilities. Second, parental perception of parental role responsibilities is higher than the level of actual performance. Third, although parents were highly aware of their role responsibilities, there is a great expectation of the role of preschools for the development of the social competence of children. Fourth, parents value the level of practice of role responsibilities in preschools relatively high. Conclusion/Implications: Support systems are needed to reduce the gap between parental perception and practice of their role responsibilities for children enrolled in preschools.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.97-102
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• 2008

Europeans are much more rigid in their thinking on robots and especially have a negative view on robots as peers since they regard robots as labor machines. Recently, Korea invented several educational robots as peer tutors. Therefore, study was needed to determine the difference in cultural acceptability for educational robots between Korea and Europe (Spain). We found that Europe seems to be much more rigid in its thinking on robots and especially has a negative view on educational robots. Korean parents have a strong tendency to see robots as 'the friend of children,' while on the other hand, European parents tend to see educational robots as 'machines or electronics'. Meanwhile, the expectation of children on educational robots showing identification content was higher in Europe than in Korea since European children are familiar with costume parties. This result implied that we may find a Korean market for educational robots earlier than a European market, but European children will be eager to play with educational robots even though their parents have a negative view of them.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.893-905
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• 2001

Korean students ranked the 3rd out of 32 participating countries in the first cycle of PISA(Programme for International Student Assessment) science field, which assessed 15-years-old students' scientific literacy. PISA developed several variables such as parents' socio-economic status, parents' educational attainment, family wealth, and cultural possession, to investigate the effects of background variables on scientific literacy. On the other hand, motivation and engagement in science study were not given much attention, partly because science was the minor area in the first cycle of PISA. Therefore, PISA Korea developed a series of variables to collect data on students' learning motives and out-of-school activities in science as a national option. The results are as followings. First, Korea was found to be one of the PISA participating countries with the scientific literacy achievement least influenced by parents' socio-economic status, family wealth, and parents' cultural possession. Second, the degree of achievement in scientific literacy according to parents' educational attainment was in a positive correlation, similar to the overall tendency of PISA. Third, the most crucial learning motive for Korean students was their desire to develop scientific thinking abilities or obtain science knowledge. On the other hand, choosing jobs in the field of science or parental expectation was the least important learning motive. In particular, the motive for scientific learning was found to have a positive relationship with the degree of scientific literacy achievement. Therefore, the higher the students achievement, the stronger the motive for scientific learning in order to develop their ability to think scientifically or acquire science knowledge. Fourth, Korean students were shown to participate very little in out-of-school scientific activities other than watching TV programs related to science. Whatever the activities may be, the more actively involved students are in out-of-school scientific activities, the higher their scientific literacy achievement. Fifth, Korean girls were rather passive compared to boys in all areas, including science learning motive and out-of-school scientific activities. The gender difference was especially more pronounced in out-of-school scientific activities with wider gaps in such activities as reading scientific books or articles and visiting science-related web sites.

• 아동학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.83-97
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of sand play therapy on the parenting stress and saliva cortisol levels of parents undergoing child counseling programs. The study was conducted with 13 parents who were undergoing child counseling programs. The sessions were held every week for 45 minutes from July, 2011 to September, 2011. To evaluate the effects of sand play therapy, pre test and post test were conducted and the results were then analyzed. The therapy sessions consist of parents making sand boxes, and this was done without consideration of any particular theme. The instrument used was Abidin (1990)'s Parenting Stress Instrument (PSI). Saliva cortisol levels were obtained at the pre-post stage of the sand play therapy. The data were analyzed by means of frequency and the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test was conducted by the SPSS. The major findings were as follows; There were significant differences in terms of the decreases in the areas of perception of all the parenting stresses examined, including daily life stress, child temperament stress, child relationship stress, and learning-expectation stress, as well as in saliva cortisol levels. Finally, this study suggests that parenting stress and saliva cortisol levels have a positive relationship, and the effects of sand play therapy were significant with decreases in parenting stress and saliva cortisol levels. There is a clear need for parents undergoing child counseling programs to engage in sand play therapy to decrease parenting stress and saliva cortisol levels.

• 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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• 제14권1호_spc
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• pp.47-62
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• 2008

현재 한국의 지나친 교육열을 반영하는 비정상적인 교육현상에 대한 피상적이고 거시적인 설명만이 존재하고, 반면에 자녀교육을 결정하는 학부모 개개인의 심리적 기제에 대한 규명이 미흡했다. 이에 본 연구는 한국사회에서 널리 상식으로 받아들여지고 있지만 실제로 과학적인 방법으로 검증되지 않은 '부모 자신의 교육에 대한 한, 후회, 학습효과'와 같은 심리적 기제가 부모의 자녀교육양식과 자녀의 학습활동에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 조사하였다. 이를 위해, 초중고 548명의 학생과 그 부모에게 설문조사를 실시하였다. 설문결과에 따르면, 전반적으로 학습효과는 애정적 /자율적 양육태도와 합리적인 자녀교육의지와 관련되어 있는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 반대로 한과 후회는 거부적 /통제적 양육태도와 맹목적인 자녀교육의지와 관련되어 있었고 학업스트레스를 높이고 효능감을 낮추는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 이러한 결과들은 한국사회의 비정상적인 교육열이 단순히 교육열이 높고 낮음의 양적인 문제가 아닌, 그 심리적 근원에 따른 질적인 문제라는 것을 제안하고 있다.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.37-46
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• 2007

This study aims to explore the variable factors by which fathers affect nursing practices. for this study 544 married couples were interviewed, which resulted in the following conclusions. First, wives have higher fairness than husbands in sharing their parental roles. Second, in some couples, there was a difference seen in the expectations of each parents nursing capability, but rarely were differences in real nursing practices actually observed. Third, all couples interviewed showed some disparity between their expectations of parental nursing capability and their real nursing practices, where the expectations for nursing capability were higher than the real nursing practices. Fourth, higher expectations for nursing capabilities from fathers result in them having better parental roles. Fifth, there is no correlation between parental nursing practices and social demographic variables. Lastly, the impacts on the parental nursing practices are ranked by relative importance as parental nursing capability, the wife's expectation for parental nursing capability and so on.