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Analysis of the Fashion Shops' Images Applying Gaze Frequency (주시빈도를 적용한 패션숍 파사드 이미지 분석)

  • Yeo, Mi;Oh, Sun Ae
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.212-219
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    • 2013
  • This study uses a fashion shop facade design to track human gaze, find gaze frequency for gaze time for the gaze points along the path of sight, and expose the importance of facade design and figure out the value through theoretical systematization. Thus, this study employed the measurement method in physiological psychology which is sight-tracking device with eye-tracking to perform effective data evaluation. To find gaze frequency and study the contents to reflect on the facade, precedent study review, and case study of facade design to collect stimulants to be used in eye-tracking experiment were executed. And the eye-tracking experiment which traces the movement of eye[pupil] was performed. As the result of analyzing gaze frequency, The characteristics of such gaze path formation made the characteristics for gaze frequency even clearer. What was characteristic in the analysis result according to 'average value for gaze time' was that only 8 out of 2000 areas showed over 1 second of frequency and, and all other shoed less than 1 second of gaze time. This indicates that human sight endlessly jumps around, and that it 'Stay' where it has interest. This study found the average of the frequency of this 'Stay' in facade design. This study well presents the major points to add value to the design of the space of facade based on scientific measurement/analysis data obtained through visual understanding. Through such, this study is thought to be able to have a positive interaction with marketing by forming a theoretical background bringing utility to purchase environment and assisting in sales increase.

Firm's Risk and Capital Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Seasonal and Non-Seasonal Businesses

  • TAHIR, Safdar Husain;MOAZZAM, Mirza Muhammad;SULTANA, Nayyer;AHMAD, Gulzar;SHABIR, Ghulam;NOSHEEN, Filza
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.12
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    • pp.627-633
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    • 2020
  • The study attempts to analyze the impact of firm's risk on capital structure in the context of seasonal and non-seasonal businesses. We use two independent variables namely credit risk and systematic risk and one dependent variable to explore this connection. Sugar sector is taken as seasonal while the textile sector as non-seasonal businesses. The panel data of twenty-five firms from each sector are taken ranging for the period of 2012 to 2019 which has been retrieved from their annual reports for empirical analysis of the study. The results reveal the negative impact of credit risk on capital structure in both types of businesses. Increasing (decreasing) one point of credit risk causes a decrease (increase) leverage ratio by 0.27 points for seasonal while increasing (decreasing) one point of credit risk causes to decrease (increase) leverage by 0.15 points for non-seasonal businesses. Furthermore, the study shows positive impact of systematic risk on leverage ratio in non-seasonal business and no impact in seasonal business. Any increase (decrease) in the systematic risk causes an incline (decline) leverage ratio by 2.68 units for non-seasonal businesses. The study provides a guideline to managers for risk management in businesses. The research focusses on theoretical as well as managerial and policy implications on risk management in businesses.

Media Use during the Sewol Ferry Disaster and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (미디어 이용과 외상 후 스트레스 장애(PTSD): 세월호 사건을 중심으로)

  • Park, Nohil;Chang, Seok-Hwan;Jeong, JiYeon
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.673-683
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    • 2018
  • The accident of Sewol Ferry is a disaster that provoked serious mental shock to the Korean people way beyond the level of generally-perceived catastrophic aftermaths. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between vicarious disaster experiences through media and post-traumatic stress(PTSD) symptoms of media users related to the accident. The responses of 417 people consisted of college, middle and high school students, and adults in a metropolitan area were collected for 12 days from the April 28, 2014 right after the accident. The results showed that the level of PTSD of social media users were higher than that of traditional media (newspapers or TV news) users on the accident. Also, the amount of use of disaster news information and social media revealed positive correlations with PTSD. Implications of this study are to demonstrate possible mechanisms of psychological trauma mediated by media on a disaster and its empirical data and to facilitate further research.

Efficacy Analysis of Developed Course for Promoting Character Education with Women's University Students (대학교의 인성교육진흥을 위한 교양교과 개발 및 효과성 연구)

  • Kim, Ji-Won
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.11
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    • pp.481-491
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    • 2015
  • This research has verified the efficacy of character education course in Liberal Art Curriculum in accordance with the objective of K Women's University of which is the 'mind sharing through mindfulness, SMART human resources development'. Most of the content of character education is organized aiming to promote values of "appreciation". The subjects are experimental group and control group, of which are 229. Research methods were t-test of between groups. The effects of the course have shown that the experimental group students were higher on the level of connectedness sub-scale in Gestalt Contact Boundary Scale than those of the control group students(t=2.323, p = .021). Although the 'character education' course increased connectedness, but it no positive effect on mindfulness skill and self-esteem. This results showed that character education course is effective to promote mind sharing and connectedness in part. It was discussed about a way of further refining course contents and the need to reflect educational philosophy of the K Women's University.

Longitudinal Relationship between Addictive Use of Mobile Phones and Learning Activities for Elementary School Students : Multiple and Complex Group Analysis across Gender (초등학생의 휴대전화 중독적 사용과 학습활동의 종단적 관계 검증 : 성별 간 다집단 복합 분석)

  • Jun, Sang-Min
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.267-279
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    • 2015
  • The study aimed to examine the longitudinal relationship between addictive use of mobile phones and learning activities for elementary school students and to analyze (1)temporal changes of the addictive use of mobile phones and learning activities, (2)temporal relationship between them, and (3)multiple and complex group analysis across gender on the relationship. For the study, 3-year longitudinal data(2010-2012) of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey and autoregressive cross-lagged modeling were used. The findings showed that the addictive use of mobile phones and learning activities had a significant positive effect on the future selves of children over time. The addictive use of mobile phones influenced positively subsequent learning activities, but, the learning activities did not affect the addictive use of mobile phones. Further, there were no significant gender differences in the longitudinal relationship. The study provided the useful data to make guidelines on how to protect mobile phone addiction for elementary school students.

The influence of the Meaning in Life on the Mental Health of University Students with Relationship Loss : Focusing on the Mediating Effects of Posttraumatic Growth (관계 상실을 경험한 대학생의 삶의 의미가 정신건강에 미치는 영향 : 외상 후 성장을 매개효과로)

  • Jeon, Ji-Kyung
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.11
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    • pp.339-349
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the meaning in life(ML) on the mental health(MH) of university students with relationship loss and to verify the mediating effects of posttraumatic growth(PTG). Data collected from 349 university students in Daejeon and Chugcheong region was analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis, and hierarchical analysis using SPSS 18.0. As the results, 1. Both ML and PTG showed a significant influence on the MH. 2. ML, PTG and MH showed a positive correlation. 3. PTG had a mediating effects on the process where ML influenced MH. The implications and limitations of the study also was suggested for a healthy mental health formation of university students with relationship troubles.

The Effects of Role and Intimacy on Satisfaction in Gifticon-giving Situations (기프티콘 증여상황에서의 역할과 상호간 친밀도에 따른 선물 만족도)

  • Lee, Eunji
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.131-140
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    • 2017
  • Gift-giving is a special behavior where both givers and receivers are interactively involved. Thus, emotion and satisfaction for both sides are core factors in gift-giving research. Recently, gift-giving expands to a mobile venue by the growth of the industries in Korea. In accordance with this trend, some studies have been conducted regarding mobile gifts called 'Gifticon'. However, most of them focused on the phenomenon based on the usage patterns and motives from the perspectives of givers. This study aimed (1) to figure out the emotional differences according to the action of giving Gifticons, and (2) to understand the effects of role and intimacy on the level of gift satisfaction. The results showed that, recipients felt higher levels of positive emotions such as excitement and thrill than givers whereas givers had different levels of gift-satisfaction depending on the intimacies to the receivers. This study is expected to suggest marketing strategies by providing psychological contemplations to a new form of gift-giving behavior, which is expanding toward a new mobile market. Further, it also suggests managerial implications by understanding the level of consumers' satisfaction from the role in Gifticon-giving situations and the intimacies between givers and recipients.

A Converging Approach on Investment Strategies, Past Financial Information, and Investors' Behavioral Bias in the Korean Stock Market (주식투자 전략, 과거 재무정보, 투자자의 행태편향에 대한 융합적 연구)

  • Koh, Seunghee
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.205-212
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    • 2016
  • This study attempts to empirically investigate if value strategy and momentum strategy could be improved by using past financial data such as ROE and PER in the Korean stock market. The study observes that both strategies which are refined by the portfolios consisting of companies with higher ROE/PER ratio show higher positive excessive returns than the traditional value strategy and momentum strategy. The study discusses that the excessive returns could be due to investors' behavioral biases such as conservatism, anchoring, confirmation, and herding by using convergent approach based on psychology theory. The results are not consistent with the efficient market hypothesis insisting investors' rational behavior.

The Moderating Effect of Emotional Dysregulation on the Relationship Between Teacher Efficacy and Job Stress of Teachers in Early Childhood Education and Care (보육교사의 효능감이 직무스트레스에 미치는 영향에서 정서조절곤란의 조절효과 검증)

  • Lee, Kyung-Sook;Chae, Jin-Young;Kim, Myung-Sik;Park, JinAh;Lee, Jeong Min
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.145-158
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    • 2016
  • Objective: This study investigated the moderating effect of emotional dysregulation on the relationship between teacher efficacy and job stress among teachers in the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Methods: The participants included 586 ECEC teachers from 99 centers in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Daejeon, Chungcheong-do, Jeolla-do, and Gyeongsang-do. The data were analyzed through frequencies, percentages, and Pearson's correlations using SPSS 21.0 (IBM Co., Armonk, NY). To analyze the moderating effect, Ping's (1996) two-step approach was used via AMOS 20.0 (IBM Co., Armonk, NY). Results: The main findings are as follows. First, the mean scores of ECEC teacher efficacy and job stress showed above the average, and the mean score of emotional dysregulation was the nearly average. Second, fit statistics indicated that the proposed model, as revised, provided an acceptable fit to the sample data. This proposed model showed that the emotional dysregulation of teachers in ECEC had a moderating effect on the relationship between teacher efficacy and job stress. Conclusion: These findings imply that the ECEC teachers showed the higher level of self-trust and self-confidence than average regarding their own work, and suffered from the work overload. Also, the positive and supportive working environment would help the ECEC teachers to reduce their emotional dysregulation. In addition, there was a moderating effect of the ECEC teachers' emotional dysregulation on the relationship between teacher efficacy and job stress. These findings imply that the workshop or counselling programs need to be provided to teachers in order to help control their emotion dysregulation and reduce their job stress.

Using ranked auxiliary covariate as a more efficient sampling design for ANCOVA model: analysis of a psychological intervention to buttress resilience

  • Jabrah, Rajai;Samawi, Hani M.;Vogel, Robert;Rochani, Haresh D.;Linder, Daniel F.;Klibert, Jeff
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.241-254
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    • 2017
  • Drawing a sample can be costly or time consuming in some studies. However, it may be possible to rank the sampling units according to some baseline auxiliary covariates, which are easily obtainable, and/or cost efficient. Ranked set sampling (RSS) is a method to achieve this goal. In this paper, we propose a modified approach of the RSS method to allocate units into an experimental study that compares L groups. Computer simulation estimates the empirical nominal values and the empirical power values for the test procedure of comparing L different groups using modified RSS based on the regression approach in analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) models. A comparison to simple random sampling (SRS) is made to demonstrate efficiency. The results indicate that the required sample sizes for a given precision are smaller under RSS than under SRS. The modified RSS protocol was applied to an experimental study. The experimental study was designed to obtain a better understanding of the pathways by which positive experiences (i.e., goal completion) contribute to higher levels of happiness, well-being, and life satisfaction. The use of the RSS method resulted in a cost reduction associated with smaller sample size without losing the precision of the analysis.