• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.59-68
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• 2001

This study was to identify the perceptions of adolescents about singlehood. The data were collected from 613 students living in Chonbuk province by the self-administered questionnaire. Frequency distributions. Cronbach\`s ${\alpha}$, x$^2$ test and t-test were conducted by spss/pc+. The major findings of this study were as follows: (1) Adolescents perceived age of single man was from 32.6 years and that of single woman from 30.1 years. (2) The reasons for singlehood that adolescents perceived were \`free life\`. \`loss of interest in marriage\`. and \`unhappy marriage of parent\`. etc. (3) Adolescents had a negative opinion on singlehood. More than 50% of adolescents perceived that single woman was more appropriate for singlehood.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.235-246
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• 2022

This study explored the effects of recent 'single life' media contents on the spread of singlehood culture for Korean youth. Extant research on the changing trends across present-centered vs. future-oriented lifestyles had focused mainly on demographic or sociological factors. "Lifestyle transforming (entertainment) reality contents" perspective suggests that reality contents revealing one's personal daily life provides not just entertaining enjoyment but also and more importantly meaningful life-changing experiences for viewers. Given the dependency of single household youth on media use, it is expected that 'singlehood life' media contents such as reality television and YouTube Vlog would have greater influence on viewers' own reality and lifestyles. Survey results indicate that viewership of 'singlehood life' contents showed significant impacts on youth viewers' identification and unmarriedness, as well as present-centered and future-oriented lifestyles. Theoretical and practical implications of these results were discussed.