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Effects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy(ACT) on Premenstrual Symptoms, Attitudes about Menstruation, and Perceived Stress of Women with Premenstrual Syndrome (수용전념치료가 월경전증후군을 가진 여성의 월경 전 증상, 월경에 대한 태도 및 지각된 스트레스에 미치는 효과)

  • Jung, Min-Jung;La, Mi-Ok;Son, ChongNak
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.485-495
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    • 2017
  • This study looked into the effects of acceptance and commitment therapy(ACT) program on the premenstrual symptoms, attitudes toward menstruation and perceived stress, in females in their 20's suffering from premenstrual syndrome(PMS). Among the 263 students from 3~4 year universities, 21 were selected as participants. 7 were assigned to the acceptance and commitment therapy(ACT) group, 7 were assigned to the cognitive behavior therapy(CBT) group, and 7 were assigned to the control group. As a result, emotional factor from the premenstrual symptoms has significantly decreased more in the acceptance and commitment therapy(ACT) group, and the cognitive behavior therapy(CBT) group in comparison to the control group. In regards to attitudes toward menstruation, there were no statistical significance in the acceptance and commitment therapy(ACT) group, however there were positive changes, and the cognitive behavior therapy(CBT) group displayed significant change in the follow-up study. In perceived stress, acceptance and commitment therapy(ACT) group displayed more significant decrease than the control group and the cognitive behavior therapy(CBT) group, and that level remained unchanged until the follow-up study.

A Study on Self efficacy Difference between User and Nonuser of Smartphone (자기 효능감에 의한 스마트폰 사용의도 연구)

  • Lee, JangHyung;Kim, Jong-Won;Sung, Baek-Chun;Choi, Young-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.157-164
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    • 2013
  • Self efficacy is a term used in psychology, roughly corresponding to a person's belief in their own competence. It has been defined as the belief that one is capable of performing in a certain manner to attain certain goals. It is believed that our personalized ideas of self-efficacy affect our social interactions in almost every way. Understanding how to foster the development of self-efficacy is a vitally important goal for positive psychology because it can lead to living a more productive and happy life. The objective of this study is to show difference of the relationship between user and non-user in smartphone by self efficacy. For this purpose, we propose a research model which consists of 3type' self efficacy. For empirical test of this model, the sample data is collected from employee in a company and divided into two groups by user and nonuser. By multi-group analysis, we show two groups are different from each other in the relationship between user and nonuser of smartphone. Results show difference of the relationship smartphone user and non-user's self-efficacy(self-control self-efficiacy and problem difficulty preference).

The differences of comfort food depending on various emotions : focused on gender difference (대학생들의 정서에 따른 컴포트 푸드의 차이: 성차를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Ji-Ye;Lee, Sang-Hee
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.15-28
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    • 2014
  • This research was performed to identify the components and types of comfort foods and to verify gender differences on choosing comfort food in various emotional states. The total of 425 Korean college students participated in this study. The results are as follows. First, most students rated foods that give warmth and relaxation, foods that are reminiscent of happy memories, food that tastes good, were rated as types of comfort foods. On the other hand, external condition and fast food were less likely to be rated as a comfort food. Second, male students reported meat dishes, stew or soup, and alcohol as comfort foods whereas female students reported stew or soup, fruit or vegetable, and meat dishes as comfort foods. Third, the students chose different comfort food in different emotional states. In negative emotions, most students chose alcohol, chocolate, hot (spicy) food, and drinks as a comfort food. But in positive emotions, most students chose chicken as comfort foods. While male students chose alcohol as high ranking comfort food, female students chose various foods as their comfort food. The limitations of this study and suggestions for future studies were discussed.

Effects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy(ACT) on IBS-Symptoms, Stress, Quality of Life, and Acceptance-Action of People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (수용전념치료가 과민성대장증후군(IBS)이 있는 사람들의 IBS 증상, 스트레스, 삶의 질 및 수용 행동에 미치는 효과)

  • Jo, MinKyeong;Son, ChongNak
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.501-509
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of acceptance and commitment Therapy(ACT) on IBS-symptoms, stress, quality of life, and acceptance-action of people with irritable bowel syndrome(IBS). After 156 adults completed Rome III Adult Questionnaire, Fourteen participants selected to 7 in ACT group and 7 in the control group. All participants completed IBS Severity Scale, K-IBS-QOL, Acceptance & Action Questionnaire-16 at the pre-test, post-test, and the 4 weeks follow-up. The ACT programme was administered for 10 sessions. Dedicated people who participated in the study were 6 in ACT group, and 6 in the control group. As a result, ACT has positive effects on the change of perceived stress, quality of life, and acceptance-action, while has not on IBS-symptoms. This study suggest empirical evidence to prove that the ACT is effective in reducing stress and improving quality of life, and acceptance-action of IBS peoples. However, The study has only few participants and thus has limitations.

A Study on Self-reliance and Residential Service Needs of Patients with Chronic Mental Illness (만성정신질환자의 자립 및 주거 서비스에 대한 요구도 조사)

  • Jeon, Hyun Ju;Huh, Yu Jeong;Ko, Young-Hoon;Lee, Jae-Hon
    • Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.145-151
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    • 2018
  • Objectives : Residential services are provided to help patients with chronic mental illness, but those have some problems because of provider focused services and uniformized training. So the purpose of the study was to explore residential needs of patients with the chronic mental illness such as chronic schizophrenia. Methods : A survey was conducted on 139 mental illness patients using mental health facilities at Ansan city area in South Korea. We investigated their demographic and social characteristics, the degree of self- reliance and residential service needs. Results : More than half of them had the desire for self-reliance, and they needed job support mostly. They were positive about the use of residential facilities and needed daily living skill and social skill training. Also they preferred day rehabilitation in type of facility. And they wanted to operate in a way that they returned home at the weekend after group home. Conclusions : For facilitating the recovery of patients with chronic mental illness, it would be necessary to provide individualized residential rehabilitation services and to improve existing residential facilities and programs reflected on the patients' needs.

Creative failure for learner's intellectual growth (지적 성장을 위한 창의적 실패교육)

  • Kim, Jong Baeg
    • (The) Korean Journal of Educational Psychology
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.745-766
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    • 2017
  • Students' creative ability has become the one of important educational goals recently. Beliefs that students can grow intellectually is a key principle in creativity education. In recently, researchers have focused on learners' failure as a way for promoting creativity in schools. They start look into the ways in which learning failures are connected to creativity. Recent studies such as Kapur(2008) demonstrated that learners' failure experiences enable students to create novel solutions to solve problems to go beyond memorizing facts or knowledge. This paper discussed strategies that students or teachers can utilize learning failures to produce positive educational outcomes and also suggested some caveats when learning failures are introduced to a classroom. Specifically, learners should avoid any pre-existing frames of thoughts to create new alternatives to solve problems. Second, teachers or students should be allowed to explore content areas freely without having any risks of academic punishment. In addition, this paper also discussed possible negative results of early experiencing learning failures regards to negative emotion. Especially, experiencing continuous failures can bring students to learned helplessness. This paper discussed how to avoid this negative consequences. Related with negative emotional effects of failures, teacher or students should be careful in the earlier stage of learning processes to avoid learning failures. Lastly, this paper also suggested that minimizing fears related with learning failures and promoting failure tolerance so that students have motivation to overcome learning failures.

The Mediating Effects of the Social Support and Ego-resilience of Adolescent Counselors on the Relationship between their Job Stress and Burnout (청소년상담자의 직무스트레스와 소진의 관계에서 사회적 지지와 자아탄력성의 매개효과)

  • Park, Hui-hyun;Park, Jeong-mi
    • Korean Journal of Play Therapy
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.473-489
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    • 2018
  • The aim of this study is to examine the mediating effects of the social support and ego-resilience of adolescent counselors on the relationship between their job stress and burnout. The subjects of this research exercise comprised 250 adolescent counselors. Data were analyzed by means of Pearson's correlation and by structural equation modeling. The results were as follows. First, there was a positive correlation between job stress and burnout, and job stress had a negative correlation with social support and ego-resilience of the adolescent counselors. Moreover, social support and ego-resilience had a negative correlation with burnout. Second, social support did not have any direct impact on relieving burnout yet affected it in an indirect way through ego-resilience. Ego-resilience exerted both direct and indirect influence on reducing burnout. Therefore, it was found that the ego-resilience of the adolescent counselors was bound up with their job stress and there by exercised a significant influence on burnout. The findings of the study illustrated that as for the relationships among the job stress, social support, ego-resilience and burnout of the adolescent counselors, ego-resilience was a crucial variable in preventing burnout. This study is of significance in that it provided theoretical data which can be used when developing programs designed to prevent burnout in adolescent counselors.

Mirrors that Illuminate Culture: Koreans' Cultural Orientation Reflected in Pop Music Preferences (문화를 비추는 거울: 대중음악 선호에 반영된 한국인의 문화성향을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Inyeong;Park, Hyekyung
    • Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.221-257
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    • 2020
  • This study examined whether popular music lyrics, the new research topic, reflect changes in Koreans' cultural orientation and whether individuals' cultural orientation is related to the genre of popular music that they prefer. In Study 1, we content analyzed popular music lyrics from 1980 to 2018 to see if Koreans' cultural orientations changed over time. The analysis showed that as the release dates approached the 2010s, the lyrics expressed the ideal attitudes of individualist cultures more frequently than those of collectivist cultures; this suggests that Koreans have gradually become more individualistic over time. In Study 2, we examined the relationships between individuals' cultural orientations, preferences for various genres of popular music, and functions of music. The analysis showed that people with more collectivistic attitudes tended to prefer mid- and low-arousal music, such as Ballads and Rap/Hiphop, while those with less collectivistic attitudes preferred high-arousal music, such as Rock/Metal. This result is partly consistent with the hypothesis that collectivistic people would prefer lower to higher arousal music. In addition, our analysis showed the strongest positive relationship between collectivism and the social function of music; this result can be interpreted as indicating that collectivistic people use music to maintain good interpersonal relationships. This paper concludes by discussing the implications of these findings, the limitations of this study, and directions for further research.

The Effect of Socially Prescribed Perfectionism of University Student to Depression: Focusing on the Mediating Effects of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Rumination, Reflective Response Style (대학생의 사회부과적 완벽주의가 우울에 미치는 영향: 불확실성에 대한 인내력 부족과 반추적, 반성적 반응양식의 매개효과)

  • Choi, Jaegwang;Song, Wonyoung
    • Korean Journal of School Psychology
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.199-222
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    • 2020
  • This study was conducted to verify the effects of socially prescribed perfectionism on depression as mediated by intolerance of uncertainty and either ruminating or reflective response styles, on as will as to find ways to effectively address depression as it presents in university students. For this purpose, 283 university students at the central region were assesed using data collected from the following surveys: the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale(CES-D), the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale(HMPS), the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale(IUS), and the Response to Depressed Mood Questionnaire(RDQ) and that were used to collect data. The results of this study are as follows. First, there was a positive correlation between the Intolerance of uncertainty and the rumination response style to the uncertainty of socially prescribed perfectionism, but not correlation the reflective response mode. Second, with respect to the relationship between socially prescribed perfectionism and depression, intolerance of uncertainty was set as the primary mediator variable and the rumination response style were set as the secondary mediator variables. The results shown to have a significant mediating effects. However this mediating effect was not significant when, in order to verify the mediating effect, we set the secondary mediator variable as the reflective response style. These results suggest that to prevent depression that manifests as socially prescribed perfectionism, it may be effective to intervene with a focus on the intolerance of uncertainty and the rumination response style. Finally, the implications and limitations of the study are discussed based on the results.

The Role of Gender difference and Interpersonal Problems in the relationship between Internal Narcissism and on Middle School Students' SNS Addiction Tendency (내현적 자기애와 SNS 중독경향성의 관계에서 성 차이와 대인관계문제의 조절된 매개효과)

  • Lim, Su Jin;Kim, Yu Yeon
    • Korean Journal of School Psychology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.109-123
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to understand path of internal narcissism toward SNS addiction tendency of middle school students. The study intended to test the hypothesis that internal narcissism personality would lead to the SNS addiction tendency through interpersonal problems and that the internal narcissism effect on the interpersonal problems can depend on Gender difference The subjects of the study were 240 middle school students (95 male and 145 female students) in Gwangju area. The descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and SPSS Macro PROCESS Model were used. The results of the study are as follows. First, there was a significant positive interpersonal problems mediation efffect between inner narcissism and SNS addiction tendency of middle school students. Second, as a result of examining Gender difference moderatiing effect between internal narcissism, and interpersonal problems relationship. according to gender difference statistically significant. Third, Moderated mediation effect of gender difference and interpersonal problems between internal narcissism personality and SNS addiction tendency relationship is statistically significant. Recently, social networking has become a serious problem in our society and it shows the highest rate of addiction in early middle school students. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of psychological factors of inner narcissism and interpersonal problems on the SNS addiction tendency, focusing on the gender differences in middle school students, and to provide basic data to prevent adolescent SNS addiction problems have.