• Journal of School Social Work
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• v.47
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• pp.99-127
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• 2019

This study aims to verify the mediating effect of empowerment and citizenship in the relations between the volunteering satisfaction of adolescents and attitudes towards school violence. For the purpose, the data of Middle school students, who are studying at school located in Gunpo and Bundang of Gyeonggi Province, and 612 of collected 748 questionnaires were analyzed. Confirmatory Factor Analysis(CFA) and Structural Equation Modeling(SEM) was utilized to test research effectiveness. This study results are as follow. First, the satisfaction of adolescents' volunteer work directly positively influenced adolescents' empowerment and citizenship. However, it was found that the satisfaction of adolescents' volunteer work did not directly affect adolescents' perception of school violence and their coping behavior on school violence. Second, in terms of the effect of the satisfaction of adolescents' volunteer work through their empowerment and citizenship on the perception of school violence among adolescents, it was revealed that the satisfaction of volunteer work through citizenship among adolescents had an indirect impact on adolescents' perception of school violence. However, the satisfaction of volunteer work through empowerment did not influence adolescents' perception of school violence. Third, in regard with the effect of adolescents' satisfaction of volunteer work through their empowerment and citizenship on coping behavior on school violence, adolescents' satisfaction of volunteer work through their empowerment and citizenship directly influenced coping behavior on school violence. Based on the results, It is suggested that when it comes to exploring adolescents' attitudes toward school violence, plans for heightening not only adolescents' satisfaction of volunteer work, their empowerment, but also their citizenship are necessary.

• 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.

• 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.