• Title/Summary/Keyword: Youth Volunteer Activity

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A Study on Effect of Volunteer Experience on Career Maturity among Youths (청소년의 자원봉사활동 경험이 진로의식 성숙에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Eun-Sook;Lee, Hwa-Sook
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.11
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    • pp.137-153
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    • 2015
  • In this study, volunteer experience(motive, durability, satisfaction, content) was set up as an independent variable, career maturity degree(determinacy, involvement, independence, tendency) was set up as a dependent variable, and the average difference and effect of the sub factors for each of them were reviewed. For this purpose, questionnaires were performed with 519 students at the middle schools and high schools in Busan. With 376 students having volunteer experiences among them, an analysis was done to find out the effect of volunteer experience on career maturity. The results of this study are as follows: First, whether having volunteer experience or not affected the career maturity among youths. That is the group with volunteer experience had higher level of interest, involvement and value in career and jobs than the group without them. Second, it showed that volunteer experience affected career maturity among youths. Specifically, career maturity was higher as their motive for volunteer activities was selfish, their satisfaction for volunteer activities was higher and they had more volunteer activities.

Verification of mediating effects of self-esteem in the relationship between level of participation in volunteering activity and mental health of adolescents (청소년의 봉사활동 참여정도와 정신건강과의 관계에서 자아존중감의 매개효과 검증)

  • Kim, Sang woo;Jang, Hye young
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.46-56
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether the level of participation in physical activity affects the mental health of adolescents, that is, their subjective well-being. In addition, we would like to see if adolescents can improve their satisfaction with life away from the negative emotions they are currently feeling through physical activities such as hand-help and consolation activities and check if self-esteem has mediating effects in this process. Design: Survey. Methods: The survey was conducted by the surveyor, with a total of 9,041. Results: First, it shows that the higher frequency of adolescents' physical activity leads to higher self-esteem and subjective well-being. Second, it shows that the higher the self-esteem leads to higher subjective well-being felt by adolescents. Third, the level of youth physical activity itself contributes to subjective well-being while also affecting self-esteem, and the self-esteem also affects the subjective well-being that adolescents perceive. Conclusion: It will be necessary to provide programs to enhance subjective well-being for students with poor school life adaptation and satisfaction with life, as well as continuous attention such as organization and counseling of programs in schools to enhance self-esteem. In addition, it is considered that by encouraging and guiding teenagers with low satisfaction with life and low self-esteem to physical activities such as volunteer activities and leisure activities that suit their aptitude, and the adolescents will get away from the negative emotions they are currently feeling and increase their satisfaction with adaptation to school life and life.

A Case Study on the Welfare QC Activity as a Management Technique for Improving Quality in Social Welfare Service (사회복지서비스의 질적 향상을 위한 관리기법으로서 복지QC 활동에 관한 사례연구)

  • Park, Kyung-Il
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.40
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    • pp.97-130
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this paper is a case study on welfare QC circle which is considered as one of the management techniques to improve service quality among recently changing welfare environment. Futhermore this paper is also to suggest a new introduction of the welfare QC circle in korean social welfare agency. To accomplish these purpose, this study theoretically examines activity process and techniques of welfare QC circle. In practice, three social workers and one supervisor working at 'D' community welfare center in pusan are participated during six months. As a result, we founded the specific problems that is aroused from youth volunteer group within by fish bone chart, and proposed the alternative choices by 5W1H check sheet, and also certified to decrease turnover ratio in youth volunteering by pareto chart. This study, however, has its limitation in selection only one case study on welfare QC circle of youth volunteering. Welfare QC circle could be much contributed as one of the management techniques to enhance the quality of social welfare service from the viewpoint of the customer, If it is well developed korean welfare QC model which is suitable to social welfare organization and service. Therefore, in order to introduce welfare QC circle in korean social welfare organizations, I would like to suggest to find out a useful text of welfare QC and organize some welfare QC study groups including other suggestions.

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A Study on Volunteerism for Beauty Services (뷰티 자원 봉사활동에 관한 실태 조사)

  • Ji, Jeong-Hun;Choi, Keun-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fashion and Beauty
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    • v.4 no.4 s.10
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    • pp.75-80
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    • 2006
  • There are three goals of college students volunteerism. First, to act up to community needs. Second, to strengthen the academic ability and social responsibility, required skill as a citizen. Third, to provide opportunity for students quantitatively as well as qualitatively. We have many social backgrounds why we need beauty volunteerism but, if we summarize, things going like this, 1. An advanced age has come, and most of the elderly citizens are suffering from financial difficulties. 2. They have strong desire for youth regardless their physical mental aging. 3. The elderly citizens: living in solitude, the disabled, war veteran's family and low-income family. 4. The coverage of beauty is getting various and has many services areas. Up to present, beauty services are just limited to hair but skin and make-up have the various ways. This study final aims are how to do effective healthy volunteer activity and develop a program to fit according to each person's major, improve the curriculum in order to have effective volunteerism.

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Effect of Adolescents' Depression on their Life Satisfaction : Focusing on Mediating Effect of Sense of Community (청소년의 우울이 삶의 만족에 미치는 영향 - 공동체의식의 매개효과를 중심으로)

  • Kang, Seok-im;Lee, Yun-jeong;Chung, Myung-sook
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.67-76
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze direct and indirect effects that depression of adolescents have on their life satisfaction through mediating variable called sense of community. To collect data, a survey was administered to 371 adolescents participating in volunteer activity at Youth Training Center located in C province. Data collected were analyzed for mediating effect, using structural equation model. The results showed that sense of community not only directly affect life satisfaction of the adolescents, but also work as a significant mediating variable between depression and life satisfaction. In other words, sense of community was found to reduce the negative impact of depression on life satisfaction. Based on these findings the ways of developing effective measures to promote the sense of community of young adolescents in educational field was discussed, such as developing various experience-activity programs and providing an institutional strategy which support such activity programs.

Implementation of Educational Service for Environmental Saver using Smart Device (스마트 기기를 활용한 환경 지킴이 교육 서비스 구현)

  • Lee, Yong-Hwan;Cho, Han-Jin;Lee, June-Hwan
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2015
  • Various efforts are being made to live a Green life began to recognize an importance of eco-friendly living. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a mobile-based environmental keeping education service, which is offered well-defined category searching and environmental outreach related designed categories, for the purpose of supporting distribution of educational application. The implemented prototype system not only plays a function of environmental pollution report, related to simple environmental stewardship schemes, but also provides environmental monitoring service and integrated educational system supporting certified online volunteer activity. This study provides an one of famous methods to the youth for environmental monitoring education system based on mobile environments, and suggests an improvement to the environmental education for schools students.