• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• 제67권1호
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• pp.5-29
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• 2015

Career development of Korean Immigrant Adolescents is important element for their Korea social adjustment and reduction of social exclusion. Especially, vocational identity is considered significantly for their career development. This study investigated the relationships and levels of discrimination, depression, self-esteem on vocational identity by comparing Korean immigrant adolescents and non-Immigrant adolescents(Korean parents family: non poor family or poor family). The major findings of this study can be summarized as follows. First, the depression level of immigrant adolescents is higher than non poor family adolescents and their self-esteem level is lower than non poor family adolescents by means analysis. second, The path analysis and multi group analysis showed that the degree of discrimination by perceived immigrant adolescents had direct influence on vocational identity and also mediated depression, self-esteem as indirect influence. But non poor family adolescents and poor family adolescents showed that their degree of discrimination had only indirect influence on vocational identity as mediation of depression, self-esteem. The result of analysis were used to discuss theoretical, practical implication for career development of Korea immigrant adolescents.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.149-169
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• 2000

The purpose of this study was to examine the environmental characteristics of adolescents in low-income families, identify the high-risk & protective factors among environmental contexts surrounding adolescents, and investigate the relative importance of high-risk & protective factors to adolescents'psychological and behavioral adjustment separately. The present study was the primary research of developing prevention program for adolescents'deviant behaviors in low-income families. Subjects of this study consisted of 176 adolescents drawn from 8 social-welfare institutions in Chungbuk province. The pilot study was done to examine the applicability of survey instrument. Data were analyzed by the frequency, percentage, Pearson correlation, stepwise regression using SPSS/WIN program. The results were as followings: 1. There was statistically correlated with each other in environmental high-risk and protective factors except an housing environment. The results implies that environmental contexts itself surrounding adolescents in low-income families can be either high-risk factors or protective factors. 2. The adolescents in low-income families perceived that stresses from consumer and school environments were high-risk factors among other environmental contexts. 3. The adolescents in low-income families perceived that resources from friend and school were protective factors among other environmental contexts. 4. The stresses from friend and eating behaviors were significant factors predicting adolescents'relative psychological adjustment. However, the behavioral adjustment was not predicted by environmental contexts. 5. The resources from school, consumer, and eating behaviors were significant factors predicting adolescents'relative psychological adjustment. Also, the resources from school, eating behavior, and family were predictors of behavioral adjustment. This research implies that the findings can be based on the development of prevention program for adolescents deviant behaviors in low-income families.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.179-191
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• 1997

The purpose of this study is to analyze the state of father’s role performance and self-esteem of adolescents, to investigate the relation between the father’s role performances recognized by adolescents and the self-esteem of adolescents, and to present the basic data for showing the importance of father’s role in increasing the adolescents’self-esteem. The subject of this survey was 795 male and female students of the second grade in Kwangju middle and high schools. The questionnaire was used for this study as a means of measuring. The results of this study were as follows：1. The degrees of father’s role performances were considered ‘82.19 points’out of 125 by adolescents but rather high by the female students, it didn’t have any significant difference between the male students and female. 2. The degrees of adolescents’ self-esteem were ‘51.17 points’out of 85 on the whole. But specifically, the degrees of adolescents’self-esteem of the male students were higher than those of the female students. This self-esteem of adolescents caused significant differences in the right to the decision-making and the father’s occupation only. 3. The influence of father’s role performances on the adolescents’self-esteem was found very high, and more influence were showed by the female students than by the male students. 4. The order in the effective poser of variables on the adolescents’self-esteem was as following； the role in command and harmony, the sex, the economic role, the role in intellectual ability development. In conclusion, father’s role performance were found to be important variables on the conform adolescents’self-esteem.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.101-110
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• 2017

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the mental health and health risk behaviors of multicultural adolescents according to their mothers' native country. Methods: For this study raw data from the 11th Youth Health Behavior Online Survey (2015) was examined. Mental health and health risk behaviors for 62,985 adolescents were analyzed according to their mothers' native country. Collected data were analyzed with the SPSS program using descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis, to which the complex sample design was applied. Results: The odds ratio of depression in multicultural adolescents compared to Korean adolescents was 44.92 (CI: 5.77-349.59) for adolescents whose mothers came from Cambodia and 3.00 (CI: 1.57-5.76) for adolescents whose mothers came from North Korea. The odds ratio of attempted suicide was 14.73 (CI: 3.09-70.22) for adolescents whose mothers came from Cambodia and 8.63 (CI: 3.45-21.62) for adolescents whose mothers came from North Korea. The odds ratio of problematic drinking in multicultural adolescents was 7.47 (CI: 1.71-32.67) for adolescents whose mothers came from Mongolia. Conclusion: Findings indicate that when planning a health promotion program for adolescents from multicultural families, a customized approach should be sought taking into account the characteristics of mothers' native country.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to find the correlation between authoritative parenting attitudes, emotional bonding of adolescents with parents, impulsiveness and cellular phone addiction. The paper will also explore the mediating role of impulsiveness between adolescents' emotional bonding with parents, authoritative parenting attitudes and cellular phone addiction. The subjects were made up of 237 adolescents. The data were analyzed with frequency, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation and structural equation modeling by PASW and AMOS. The instruments used were Lee et al. (1997) Parenting Attitude, Hudson (1982) Child's Attitude Toward Parent (CATP), Lee (2001) BIS (Barnett Impulsiveness Scale) and Lee (2008) Cellular Phone Addiction. The major findings were as follows: the sex of the adolescents was significantly different with cellular phone addiction and their family economic status was significantly different with adolescents' emotional bonding with parents and cellular phone addiction. Authoritative parenting attitude was negatively correlated with adolescents' emotional bonding with parents and positively correlated with impulsiveness and cellular phone addiction. Emotional bonding of adolescents with parents was negatively correlated with impulsiveness and cellular phone addiction. Adolescents' emotional bonding with parents influenced impulsiveness and cellular phone addiction negatively, and impulsiveness mediated the effects of adolescents' emotional bonding with parents, authoritative parenting attitude and cellular phone addiction. Authoritative parenting attitude influenced adolescents' impulsiveness and cellular phone addiction positively, but impulsiveness influenced cellular phone addiction positively. In conclusion, it is important to intervene in adolescents' cellular phone addiction through special education programs and counseling to build adolescents' emotional bonding with parents and to reduce impulsiveness.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.103-117
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• 2015

Family environment plays a significant role in adolescent development. Multicultural adolescents in Korea are brought up in a distinctive family environment, where they get to experience two different cultures within their families. Thus, it is important to examine how internal characteristics of the family environment in multicultural families and interactions between family members influence adolescents. The aim of the current study was to examine structural relationships among Southeast Asian mothers' and Korean fathers' bilingual socialization, adolescents' attitude toward mothers' native culture, and mother-adolescent relationship satisfaction. Specifically, the following two questions were addressed in this study: 1) Does bilingual socialization of each parent affect adolescents' attitude toward mothers' native culture? 2) Does children's attitude toward mothers' native culture affect mother-adolescent relationship satisfaction? To answer these questions, the survey data from the '2012 Nationwide Survey of Multicultural Families' was analysed, using SEM. The sample consisted of 318 multicultural adolescents (aged 9-17) living with Korean fathers and immigrant mothers from Southeast Asia. The main findings were as follows. First, Korean fathers' bilingual socialization had a positive effect on immigrant mothers' bilingual socialization. The path from Korean fathers' bilingual socialization to adolescents' attitude toward mothers' native culture was significantly mediated by immigrant mothers' bilingual socialization. Second, adolescents' attitude toward mothers' native culture had a positive effect on mother-adolescent relationship satisfaction. Results suggest that Korean fathers' bilingual socialization is an important factor for bilingual socialization of multicultural adolescents. It is also worth noting that each parent's bilingual socialization helps multicultural adolescents to form a positive identity as a member of multicultural families.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.327-348
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• 2010

This study aims to understand whether the effect of poverty is translated to adolescents' mental health though their exposure to violence, which is aggravated by the dangerous environments of the neighborhoods. For this purpose, the study analyzes whether poor adolescents tend to reside on neighborhoods with toxic environments, and whether living in the disadvantageous neighborhood causes the poor adolescents to experience greater violence victimization and fear of violence, and eventually, greater depression and anxiety. The study utilizes secondary analysis of longitudinal data of the Korea Youth Panel Survey. Structural Equation Modeling is used as an analysis method. The study results reveals that poverty has both direct and indirect effects on the level of adolescents' symptoms of depression and anxiety. Especially, poverty affects adolescents' depression and anxiety indirectly through increasing the possibility to reside in more dangerous neighborhoods. Explaining more in detail, living in dangerous neighborhoods seems to expose adolescents more to violence and fear of violence in the neighborhoods and this experience increases the level of depression and anxiety. The study argues that the negative effects of poverty on adolescents should be examined from the view of neighborhood environments. Finally, the study discusses the importance of increasing neighborhood competency as practice and policy implication.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.319-330
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to improve ubiquitous fashion design which adolescents can be satisfied with. The methods of this study are documentary research of previous studies, survey research and deep interviews. For this study 371 students are selected as samples of survey. As a result of this study, we could know that the adolescents of the 21st century are enjoying actively the culture of consumers and the culture of information era. Domestic adolescents have much knowledge and interest in information and in UFC fashion products. So we can predict that domestic adolescents' interest and desire of UFC fashion products will increase gradually. As for using occasions, adolescents will use UFC fashion products for 'mobile', 'exercise', 'social followship', and as for using purposes, they will use UFC fashion products for 'listening to music', 'playing games', 'communication', 'search for information', etc. So when we develop UFC fashion products for adolescents, we'd rather develop the products for entertainment than for studying. To satisfy the various tastes of adolescents, UFC fashion products must also consider the design factors like styles, colors, materials, etc. In conclusion all UFC fashion products for adolescents must have not only the basic qualities like functions and conveniences, but also the qualities of designs.

• The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.45-57
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• 2015

Objectives: This study identified a multicultural families and households youth targeting adolescents drinking behavior and sexual status, and alcohol problems and gender analyzes and the relevance of the cup and behavior. Methods: This study analysed drinking problem and sexual behavior among adolescents of multi-cultural and general families which is based on the primitive data from the Ninth Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey, 2013. All analysis were conducted using SPSS version 18. Results: Multicultural family adolescents showed significantly higher in lifetime's drinking experience, beginning age of drinking, binge drinking, CRAFFT and sex experience than general family adolescents. Conclusions: Therefore the result of this study suggests that families, schools and society should perceive and solve the problem concerning the drinking behavior and sex experience of the multicultural familiy adolescents.

• The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2010

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine health behavior and disease of children and adolescents. Method: Data was taken from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The SPSS 12.0 program was used for statistical analysis of data collected. Results: For the past one year, 57% of study group had oral examinations, 43.9% of them were vaccinated against influenza, and 16.9% tried to control body weight. Many children and adolescents (37.7%) had diseases, and 16% were diagnosed chicken pox. Of the subjects who were over 10 years old 35.9% had low high density lipid. The difference of sickness status between children and adolescents was significant ($x^2$=8.376, P=.015). The differences between children and adolescents in subjective health status, oral examination, vaccination of influenza, subjective physical change, body weight change and weight control efforts in the past one year were significant. The differences between children and adolescents in diagnosis of sinusitis, pneumonia and low HDL were statistically significant. Conclusions: The children and adolescents have different characters in health perimeters and these factors should be considered in order to improve the health status of children and adolescents.