• 융합정보논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.34-44
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• 2021

본 연구는 초기노인이 경험하는 신체변화의 의미와 본질을 발견하기 위해 시도되었다. J시 65세-74세 노인 11명을 대상으로 심층면담을 하여 자료를 수집하였으며 van Manen의 해석학적 현상학적 연구방법을 적용하여 분석하였다. 초기노인이 체험하는 신체변화의 본질적인 주제로 '나이듦에 대한 연민', '타인의 모습 속에 투영된 나', '붙잡아두고 싶은 세월의 흐름', '외모에 우선하는 웰빙'이 도출되었다. 참여자들은 급격한 신체변화가 나타나면서 변화된 몸에 대해 아쉬워하고, 이러한 변화를 타인에게서도 발견하게 되면서 누구에게나 나타나는 것임을 깨닫게 된다. 참여자들은 세월의 흔적을 지우고 싶어하지만 나이 들어 변한 신체 변화를 받아들이고 무엇보다 건강이 중요하다고 생각하고 건강한 몸을 위해 노력한다. 이는 초기노인의 신체변화에 대해 좀 더 이해하고 그들의 삶의 질을 개선하기 위한 기초 자료를 제공할 것이다.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.31-42
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• 2008

Research outcome shows the following: 1. Estimation by the year 2015 on the number of the aged people and on the number of the household of living alone and living with spouse only, per age-cohort by 5 years, per basic self-govern-ins local groups and the city of Daegu. The result is supposed to serve as meaningful basic material in building up future policies in many areas for the aged people living in their homes. 2. Estimation varies according to the areas and the age-cohorts. In urban areas, increase of the numbers of the households of the aged people living alone and living with spouse only is estimated in every age-cohort. In rural areas, variance between two age-groups, old-old and young-old, is observed. Both of the numbers of the households for the aged living alone and the aged living with spouse only have increased continuously by the year 2005. But the hither-to increase tendency is estimated to reverse itself to a decrease starting from the younger within the young-old age group, and the ratio of the old-old age-group in rural population will sharply increase starting from the year 2005. Such increase in the number of the aged people in need of the housing and the social support requires the increasing policy consideration for the issue of housing for the aged living in their homes. In spite of the decreasing tendency in the number of the aged people living alone and living with spouse only in rural areas, still there will continue to be more number of such households than in urban area for the time being. The government of Gyeongsangbuk-Do should pay more consideration to the old-old aged living alone and living with spouse only in rural areas, while being prepared for the sharply increasing households for the aged living alone and living with spouse only in urban areas.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.85-95
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to examine mothers' ideal and actual parenting behaviors toward their infants in three parenting domains; social, didactic, and limit setting. A total of 264 mothers of young children under age three from Seoul, Korea completed Parental Style Questionnaires (PSQ). Mothers' self report on their ideal and actual parenting were explored as a function of child sex, age, and birth order. As expected, there were significant differences between mothers' ideal and actual behaviors in all three parenting domains: Mothers' ideal behaviors such as social interaction, didactic interaction and limit setting were higher than those of their actual behaviors. For mothers' ideal parenting, results revealed neither significant main effects nor interaction effects. However, the Parenting Domain x Birth-Order 2-way interaction and the Parenting Domain x Child Age 2-way interaction were significant for mothers' actual behaviors. Specifically, mothers reported more social and didactic behaviors with their first-born than later born children, but not for limit setting behavior. It was also found that higher limit setting behaviors were apparent for their 2- and 3-year-old than 1-year old children whereas lower social interactions were found for 3-year-old than for 1-year-old. In light of universality and uniqueness, mothers' parenting behavior toward young children has been discussed.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.100-111
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• 2015

주요국에서는 증가하는 노인운전자의 교통사고 경감을 위해 연령별 자동차 사고 위험도를 분석한 후, 위험도가 높은 고령자의 교통사고를 경감하기 위한 다양한 제도를 시행하고 있다. 최근 우리나라 교통사고는 감소하고 있지만 65세 노인운전자의 교통사고는 빠르게 증가하고 있음에도 불구하고 노인운전자의 자동차사고 위험도에 대한 실증연구가 부재하고, 관련제도 개선이 이루어지지 않고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 우리나라 운전자들의 연령별 자동차사고 위험도를 분석하였는데, 25세 미만 연령층을 제외하고 65세 이상 노인운전자의 자동차사고 위험도가 가장 높은 것으로 분석되어졌다. 세계에서 가장 빠른 인구고령화를 경험하고 있는 우리나라에서도 주요국처럼 노인운전자에 대한 운전교육 및 운전면허 재발급 자격을 강화할 필요가 있겠다. 또한 노인운전자를 배려한 도로표지판 개선과 노인운전차량 스티커 부여, 그리고 자가운전 대신 대중교통을 운전하는 노인들에 대해 인센티브를 제공하는 유인체계의 변화가 필요하다.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.65-74
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• 2006

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in Korean child-rearing practices between the generations of young mothers and grandmothers. Method: The participants were 98 mothers who were 20 to 39 years old and had raised one-year-old child and 103 grandmothers who were over 60 years old and had raised their children in a small city. Data were collected through self-report questionnaire based on the Korean traditional child-rearing practice from Yoo(1986). The data were analyzed using the SPSS Win 10.0 program. Results: Of 37 items in the categories of feeding and weaning, health management and taboo matters, play, and baby celebrations, the grandmothers practiced 13 items (35%) more frequently than the young mothers. However, no generation differences were found in 21 items (57%), and 3 items were practiced more frequently by the young mothers. For the young mothers, there were 15 items (41%) which were practiced over 70%, 7 items (19%) which were practiced less than 30%. Conclusion: It seems that some Korean traditional child-rearing practices were transferred to modern child-rearing practices. Therefore pediatric nurses need to pay attention to traditional child-rearing practices for the best health, growth and development of children.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.375-382
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to analyze the risk factors of the musculoskeletal workload of mid-old-age food preparation workers by identifying the differences in the complaints of subjective symptoms between mid-old-age housewives and mid-old-age food preparation workers. This study was carried out on a total of 83 subjects from April 2009 through July 2009: 43 food preparation workers at the catering department of general hospital A, with a high rate of mid-old-age food preparation staff, and 40 full-time housewives (40~59 years old). The analysis of the relationship between the rates of the subjective symptoms of the two groups showed that the mid-old-age food preparation workers had a 7.8-fold higher risk of developing musculoskeletal diseases than the full-time housewives. The musculoskeletal workload of the mid-old-age food preparation workers included repetitive motions, uncomfortable postures, and heavy lifting. It is hoped that this study will help provide mid-old-age people with opportunities for appropriate economic activity and labor and will help improve their work postures and methods as well as their environmental-risk factors.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.127-138
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• 2020

본 연구는 노인의 주관적 건강인식과 사회활동참여가 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향 및 사회활동참여의 매개효과를 연령집단별로 분석한 것이다. 이를 위해 고령화연구패널조사 6차년도(2016) 자료를 활용하여, 만65세이상 75세 미만의 전기노인 2,106명, 75세 이상의 후기노인 2,219명을 대상으로 구조방정식모형을 사용했다. 분석결과, 주관적 건강인식 수준과 사회활동참여의 정도 및 삶의 만족도 수준 모두가 전기노인이 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 사회활동참여의 매개효과는 전기노인에게만 유의미하게 나타났다. 다중집단분석 결과, 주관적 건강인식이 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향력은 집단 간에 차이가 없어 전기·후기노인 모두에게 주관적 건강인식이 동일하게 중요한 것으로 나타났다. 주관적 건강인식이 사회활동참여에 미치는 영향력은 후기노인이 상대적으로 높게 나타났다. 그러나 사회활동참여가 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향력에서 전기노인에게만 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구 결과를 토대로 노인의 삶의 만족도 제고를 위하여 전기노인과 후기노인의 집단 간 차이를 고려한 실천적 개입방안을 논의하였다.

• Interdisciplinary Bio Central
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.11.1-11.5
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• 2011

The MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) volumetric analysis of the brain was performed in 59 healthy elderly Koreans (aged 62-76 years; 34 male, 25 female) to investigate whether the previously reported significant correlations between body height and brain volumes in the young aged Koreans (20's) still exist in the old aged Koreans (60's and 70's). Unlike previously reported significant correlations in the young aged Koreans, neither the correlation between whole brain volume and body height in male nor the correlation between cerebellar volume and body height in female show any significance in the old aged Koreans. The significant correlation between body height and whole brain volume was still observed when both male and female data were combined (r=0.27, P<0.05), but the correlation coef-ficient and the level of significance markedly decreased from those of previously reported Korean youth data (r=0.67, P<0.01). Simple linear regression analysis shows decrease of explanatory power of height (measured in $r^2$) from 44% in the youth group to 7% in the old age group on the variance of whole brain volume. Multiple linear regression analysis shows that age and sex, rather than height, are major explanatory variables for whole brain volume in the old aged Koreans. The loss of correlations in the aged group is suspected to be mainly due to age related brain volume changes.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.413-419
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• 2012

Objective: This study presents an observation and analysis on behavioral characteristics of old users in comparison to young users in the use of control on display interface. Background: Touch interface which allows users to control directly on display, is conceived as delight and easy way of human-computer interaction. Due to the advantage in stimulus-response ensemble, the old users, who typically experiencing difficulties in interacting with computer, would expected to have better experience in using computing machines. Method: Twenty nine participants who are over 50 years old and 14 participants who are in 20s years old were participated in this study. Three primary tasks in touch interface, which are tap, move, and flick, were delivered by the users. For the tap task, response time and point of touch response were collected and the response bias was calculated for each trial. For the move task, delivery time and the distance of finger movements were recorded for each trial. For the flick task, task completion time and flicking distance were recorded. Results: From the collected behavioral data, temporal and spatial differences between young and old users behavior were analyzed. The older users showed difficulty in completing move task requiring eye-hand coordination.

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.203-207
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• 2010

Radiation-induced late injury to normal tissue is a primary area of radiation biology research. The present study was undertaken to investigate whether the late effect of the ionizing radiation appears as an age-related oxidative status in the brain. Three groups of 4-month old C57BL/6 mice that were exposed to $^{137}Cs$ ${\gamma}-rays$ at a single dose (5 Gy) or fractionated doses ($1Gy{\times}5times$, or $0.2Gy{\times}25times$) at 2 months old were investigated for the oxidative status of their brains with both young (2-month) and old (24-month) mice. A significant (p<0.05) decrease in superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity was observed in old mice brains compared with that of the young mice. malondialdehyde (MDA) content was significantly (p<0.05) increased in the old mice brain. However, any significant difference in SOD activity and MDA contents of the irradiated brain was not observed compared to age-matched control group mice. SOD activity and MDA content were observed within good parameters of brain aging and there were no late effects on the age-related oxidative level in the ${\gamma}-ray$ irradiated mice brains.