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The Characteristics and Determinants of Welfare Attitudes (복지태도의 미시적 결정구조와 특성)

  • Ryu, Jin-Seok
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.56 no.4
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    • pp.79-101
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    • 2004
  • This paper examines the characteristics and determinants of welfare attitudes in Korea. Based on Survey data, this study focuses mainly on how social-economic position variables, welfare status and welfare compliances influence attitudes towards welfare. Welfare attitudes can be classified by five areas as follows: legitimacy of welfare functions, affordability of welfare costs, need-based welfare principles, responsibility of welfare provision and adequacy of welfare spending. There are the major findings. First, attitudes towards welfare is identified state-friendly or pro-welfare attitudes. Second, among the social-economic position variables, welfare status and welfare norms variables, welfare compliance has statistically the most significant effects on welfare attitudes. Third, the level of pro-welfare attitudes is largely determined by welfare norms and images espoused by individuals. These findings suggest that we can not apply cleavages thesis which are developed by studies on the support for welfare state.

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Dynamics of Welfare Attitudes Change in Korea: Longitudinal Study of Korean's Welfare Attitudes Change (한국사회 복지태도 변화의 역동성 : 개인 복지태도 변화에 대한 종단자료 분석)

  • Lee, Sang-Rok;Lee, Soon-A;Kim, Hyeong-Kwan
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.59-89
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    • 2017
  • Changes in the public welfare attitudes are very important to the welfare politics and policy. Considering that variability of public welfare attitudes has been ignored in previous studies, we analyzed welfare attitudes changes at individual level in Korea. Using the longitudinal data from the Additional Survey of 2010/2013/2016 Korea Welfare Panel Survey, we analyzed the changes in public welfare attitudes during 2010th-2016th years. Major findings are as follows. First, one of the findings from analysis is that the public welfare attitudes are very active and dynamic in Korea. This finding is contradiction to the results of the previous researches that are point to the stability or inertia of the public welfare attitudes in western welfare states and also in Korea. Second, occurrences of the welfare attitudes change are related with various individual characteristics; income status, occupation status, age, region, sex, political ideology, etc. These results from this study on the welfare attitudes change suggest that dynamics of the Korea welfare politics in recent years reflected the dynamic changes in public welfare attitudes. And, they suggest that Korea welfare politics are transformed from the traditional classes welfare politics to the new welfare politics which are influenced by various interests of the socio-demographic groups.

Determinants of Welfare Attitudes towards Healthcare Services: Focusing on Self-Interest, Symbolic Attitude, and Sociotropic Perceptions (의료서비스에 대한 복지태도의 결정요인: 자기이해, 상징적 태도, 사회지향적 인식요인들을 중심으로)

  • Seo, Wook-Young;Moon, Daseul;Chung, Haejoo
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.324-335
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    • 2017
  • Background: The aim of this study is to analyze determinants of welfare attitudes toward healthcare services in South Korea, using three main theories: self-interest (positive welfare attitudes if the policy fulfills people's personal interests), symbolic attitudes (positive welfare attitudes if the person is politically progressive or egalitarian), and sociotropic perception (positive welfare attitudes if the person experienced positive aggregated collective experiences of societal events and trends regarding the policy). Although the definition of the welfare attitude is rather ambiguous in literatures, in this investigation, we operationalize the concept as the 'willingness to pay higher taxes to improve the level of health care services for all people in Korea' which shows individuals' actional propensity. Methods: We used the health module from the International Social Survey Program 2011 for the analysis (N= 1,391). Five logistic regression models were built successively using two variables for each theory to measure key concepts of self-interest, symbolic attitudes, and sociotropic perceptions as independent variables. Results: The result showed self-interest and symbolic attitudes factors to be strong determinants of welfare attitudes towards healthcare services in South Korea, whereas sociotropic perception factors have inconsistent effects. Conclusion: For a more politically elaborated healthcare reform in South Korea and elsewhere, there needs to be further research on various dimensions and determinants of welfare attitudes to understand popular basis of welfare expansion, especially in the era of inequality.

A Study of the relation between class and the welfare attitudes and regulating effects of education (계급·계층이 복지정책에 대한 태도에 미치는 영향과 교육변인의 조절효과 연구)

  • Kim, HeeJa
    • 한국사회정책
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.35-68
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    • 2013
  • Class has been the factor that affects welfare attitudes in western societies. But the results of the studies on affects of class in Korea are not consistent. This Study focuses on the relations between three class variables-income, status in employment, occupation-and the Korean attitudes on welfare policy and examines the regulating effects of education on that. Attitudes on welfare policy consist of 'reinforcement of established welfare programs', 'expansion into new welfare area' and 'universalism in welfare policy.' The result shows that all three class variables, education and age do not affect the attitudes to 'reinforcement of established welfare programs.' Age and class variables affects the attitudes to 'expansion into new welfare area' statistically, but education does not. Education explains largest parts of the attitudes to 'universalism in welfare policy.'

The Effect of Welfare Status on Welfare Attitudes: Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Trust in Government (복지지위가 복지인식에 미치는 영향: 정부신뢰의 조절효과를 중심으로)

  • Choi, Go Eun
    • 한국사회정책
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.125-150
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    • 2016
  • This study was carried out to empirically analyze the hypothesis that the impact of the welfare status on the welfare attitudes is moderated by each individual's level of confidence in government. To do this, this study focused on the welfare status known as the significant predictors of welfare attitudes and measured the welfare status as a gap between 'welfare contribute' and 'welfare benefit' in a single dimension, which is defined as 'material sacrifice'. Also, this study examined the main effect of material sacrifice and trust in government on the welfare attitudes and moderating effect of trust in government on relationship between material sacrifice and welfare attitudes. This study was performed with secondary data from 8th year of "2013 Korea Welfare Panel Study". Hypothesis of this study were verified using hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The major findings of this study are summarized as follow. 'Material sacrifice' was found to be negatively associated with the welfare attitudes. However, as the confidence in which social policies will be carried out competently by government increases, it was confirmed that the negative effect of material sacrifice on the welfare attitudes was moderated. It suggests that self-material interests associated with welfare could be moderated by beliefs and expectations about the government's functions, which means that expanding the reliance on the social policy is an important task in order to lead a social consensus for the welfare expansion.

A Study of the Generational Cleavage in Welfare Attitudes: Differentiating Cohort Effect from Age Effect and Finding Its Factors (복지태도의 세대 간 균열 연구: 연령효과와 분리된 코호트 효과와 그 요인의 분석)

  • Jo, Nam Kyoung
    • 한국사회정책
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.245-275
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    • 2017
  • It is attempted here to explain change in welfare attitudes for two decades in 10 countries with the cohort effect, especially differences in societal values between generations. It was found that for the last 20 years pro-welfare attitudes of the public has been strengthened, on which the generation has impact, more by the cohort effect than by the age effect, and that the Millennials/Y-generation are the strongest supporters for the state welfare. Value-differences between cohorts, as a background factor for the cohort effect on welfare attitudes, are clear but show a kind of linear trend from the older to the younger cohorts. As for the cohort effect on welfare attitudes, it is expected, at least for the short-term future, in the direction toward supporting the expansion of the state welfare. Korean welfare attitudes show an exceptional pattern - preferring income inequality as incentives, and at the same time, the expansion of governmental welfare responsibility, which echoes recent arguments of contradictoriness and non-class-orientedness of Korean welfare attitudes. Especially, Korean Millennials/Y-G shows this contradictory welfare attitudes the most strongly, which is unique between 10 countries in this study, implying their fierce competition is being internalized. It is expected that the contradictoriness of Korean welfare attitudes may limit its possibility to back up welfare expansion in Korea.

Impacts of Factors of Welfare Attitude for Social Workers in Seoul (사회복지사의 복지태도 영향 요인: 서울지역을 중심으로)

  • Park, Ji-Young
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.432-448
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study examines the tendency and determinants of welfare attitudes for social workers in Seoul province. Based on Survey data, this study focuses mainly on how socialization patterns, self-interest, and value and norm influence attitudes towards welfare. The results of this study are as follows. First, The self-interest theory has a limit to explain welfare attitudes for social workers in Seoul province. Second, Ideology factor has an impact on welfare attitudes for social workers in Seoul province. In other words, egalitarian social workers have more pro-welfare attitudes. Based on findings, this study suggested that strengthening value of equality in welfare policy and program.

Factors of Welfare Recognition toward Health Insurance and Health Care: Using 2013 Korea Welfare Panel Study (건강보험 및 보건의료에 대한 복지인식에 영향을 주는 요인: 2013년 한국복지패널 자료를 이용하여)

  • Park, Young-Hee
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.115-126
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    • 2015
  • Objectives : This research was performed to investigate the characteristics and determination factors of health care policy satisfaction and welfare recognition for health insurance & health care financing. Methods : The utilized data were 4,174 cases who responded to a welfare recognition survey in the 8th wave of the Korea Welfare Panel Study (2013). The statistical methodology used in this study is the multiple regression model. Results : The significant affecting factors of health care policy satisfaction were age, education, household income, welfare attitudes, and health status. Medical utilization & private medical insurance were not related to health care policy satisfaction. The affecting factors of health insurance reinforcement were age, health status, welfare attitudes. The affecting factors of health care financing expansion were age, economic activity type, medical utilization, welfare attitudes. The affecting factors of welfare attitudes were age, economic activity type, household income, health insurance, and health status. Conclusions : Health care policy satisfaction, health insurance reinforcement, and health care financing expansion were all affected by age and welfare attitude; but this was not the case for private health insurance. This study recommended that the Korean government provide active planning for reinforcement of health insurance and publicity of the health care system in order to accord with the prospects of people.

The Determinants of Public Attitudes toward Welfare Spending in Korea: Focusing on Welfare Perceptions and the Quality of Government (복지태도의 결정요인 분석: 복지수준과 '정부의 질'에 대한 인식의 효과를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Jiho;Hwang, Ah Ran
    • 한국사회정책
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.257-285
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of public attitudes toward welfare spending in relation with the perception of welfare level. Data from the national survey of 'the SSK Good Government Research Unit' are used to perform a logistic regression analysis of the association between welfare attitudes and government perceptions, political orientations, and socio-economic backgrounds. The most prominent finding is that the determinants of welfare attitudes differ markedly between the two different groups of welfare perception. The empirical results say that persons living in a corrupt government tend to prefer welfare spendings despite having low level of welfare, and persons living in a unjust government tend to prefer welfare expansion because welfare level must be low. Persons living in a government of great capacity tend to have positive attitudes to welfare spending despite having a high level of welfare, whereas persons living in a government of less capacity tend to have negative attitudes to welfare expansion because the level of welfare is too high beyond government capacity. This distinction between the two perceptions of welfare level provides a systemic understanding of public attitudes toward welfare spending.

A Study on Discriminant Factors of Political Orientation of Korean People: Focusing upon Welfare Attitudes (한국인의 정치적 성향 판별요인 분석: 복지태도를 중심으로)

  • Sin-Young Kim
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.227-231
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    • 2024
  • This study purports to examine the potential effects of welfare attitudes of Korean people upon their political orientation. The 17th Korea Welfare Panel Data(KWPD) in 2022 are used for this purpose. Independent variable include sex, age, education, interest in politics, and employment status. Discriminant analysis show several results. First and foremost, pre-established discriminant function works well for classification of respondents' liberal vs conservative stance. Secondly, except gender and dummy variable for temporary employed, all independent variables contribute significantly for the classification at a given significance level. . Finally, welfare attitudes of respondents', measured by universalism vs selectivism and the attitudes upon increasing tax for welfare expenditures are found to be significant and relatively big impacts upon dependent variable, compard to other variables in the model. The nature of causal relationship between welfare attitudes and political orientation remains for further study.