• The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.169-180
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• 2009

This study was performed to examine the emotion expectations and explanations of four participants(an actor, a recipient, a child observer, and an adult observer) in moral, social-conventional, and personal rule transgression situations. Six vignettes describing the rule transgressions were presented to 200 children who were either five or seven years old. The children were asked to predict and explain each participant's emotions. The children's emotion expectations were different depending on the domain of the rule transgressions and on the type of the participant. The actors were predicted to feel happy during all transgressions, while the recipients and two observers(a child and an adult) were predicted to feel unhappy. The seven-year-old children attributed more happiness to the actors, and more negative affect to the recipients compared to the five-year-olds. This result was inconsistent with the previous findings that older children attributed more happiness to actors. This finding was discussed in relation to the 'happy victimizer'. Some categories of emotion explanations were differentiated according to the domain of rule transgressions. The personal rule transgressions, newly defined and examined in this study, were judged to be less serious than the moral rule transgressions in terms of the intensity of the negative affect.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.559-568
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to conduct a survey and analysis of 249 children of the Fragment Love Sharing Society to find out the impact of the association program on children. Correlation analysis was conducted using the SPSS Statistics 23 program to confirm the relationship between scholarship students and scholarship management institutions, and regression analysis was conducted to confirm the impact of the relationship between scholarship students and the scholarship management institution. According to the analysis, the higher the satisfaction level of scholarships, the higher the level of career proficiency and yesterday's happiness, and the more satisfied the child is with the benefits of the crumb scholarship, the higher the sense of self-respect, career maturity, and yesterday's happiness. Based on these findings, support measures were discussed for children with ties.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.127-141
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• 2017

Objective: The purpose of this study was to figure out early childhood teachers' perception on rights of young children and what they do to implement the perceived rights of young children in early childhood settings. Methods: Two individual and two group interviews were conducted. First, individual interviews were held with one childcare center teacher, and then interviews were held with one kindergarten teacher. Both group interviews were conducted with three different kindergarten teachers. All interviews were held two times. Recorded and transcribed interview data were analyzed. Results: The results are as follows. First, participants perceived rights as natural, protective, expressive, equally respectful, and joyful but understood differently from that of adults due to developmental status of young children, which included rights to life, equality, participation, protection, and happiness. Second, teachers remarked that they used strategies to project young children's emotions to implement perception on rights to life and happiness, discern deprivation from violation for rights to protection and equality, and set rules and have double standards utilizing resources around, for rights to participation. Conclusion/Implications: These results have implication for organizing contents for rights education for early childhood teachers.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.366-378
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• 2023

This study analyzed the impact of securing nature-friendly public spaces on the healthy growth of children. Additionally, it examined the case of Germany to extract implications for Korea. The natural environment enhances children's play, physical activity, cognitive abilities, and overall happiness. Therefore, it is generally considered a necessary space that must be provided for domestically, especially for children who experience high academic stress and low levels of happiness. However, as evidenced by Germany's "Nature Experience Area Project," creating nature-friendly spaces for children requires legal support at the national level. Additionally, such projects should be integrated with key national policies. Furthermore, beyond interdisciplinary collaboration, caregivers must have a positive perception of the natural environment.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.43-56
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• 2023

This study aims to develop an Orff musical activity program based on interpersonal care for children from multicultural families in South Korea. The Orff music activity program based on interpersonal care consists of a program that can control ego-resilience, peer relationships, happiness, anxiety, and stress, and was developed based on the Analysis, Design, Development, and Implementation (ADDI) model. As a result, a ten-session program was developed based on the expressive area of care, theme, goal, interpersonal care technique, Orff technique. The research results of the developed program show that interpersonal care nursing can be effective for children from multicultural families, and this program can be used as an intervention to improve children's mental health.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.1-16
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to examine the relative influence of various characteristics that affect the happiness and family strength of pre-elderly and the elderly. This study also shows the differences between the two age groups. The National Survey of Korean Families has been done by the Ministry of Equality and Family on 2010. Respondents selected from national survey were 1016 pre-elderly and 629 elderly. The results of this study are as follows; first, 66% of the respondents chose health as the condition is being the important elements of their happiness following money, work (job), children, spouse and family life. Second, the group of people considering work and health as important elements of their happiness is happiest, but the group considering money and health as the important elements of their happiness feels a lower level of happiness. Third, the pre-elderly chose health as the most important condition, but the elderly chose subjective economic condition, among the factors affecting family strength. Fourth, family strength affects most on in regard to the happiness of pre-elderly and the elderly. Next, the more they are financially stable, physically healthier and living in rural areas, they feel the happier they feel. Based on the results of this study, further studies are needed to determine components of family strength that both pre-elderly and the elderly consider as important elements of their happiness. Support programs for the elderly without a spouse will increase the well-being of the elderly.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.47-54
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• 2015

This study was conducted an convergence research on 210 mothers in order to examine the effect of golf on subjective happiness of mothers who have children with disabilities. The factors were conducted surveys using SPSS WIN 18.0 program. Firstly, were mostly 40s, college graduates, Buddhists or had no religion, had housekeeping as occupation, had average household income, and most of them were healthy. In addition, descriptive statistics on their years of experience in golf, golf strokes, field, practice frequency, and practice hours were all above average. Secondly, significant correlations were suggested between experience in golf, golf strokes, field, practice frequency, silence during practice hours, and in the subjective happiness of negative correlation as a result of analysing the correlations between the factors. Thirdly, the field, practice frequency, and practice hours affected the subjective happiness.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.271-284
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the narrative therapy group counseling program using RPG(Role Playing Game) format on happiness and negative emotions in children. The subjects of this study were 30 elementary school students who were referred to emotional and behavioral problems in a mental health center or elementary school in Seoul. They were allocated into an experimental group and a control group containing 15 students. Experimental group received a 60-minutes-session per week for 8 weeks. As a result, negative emotions of the experimental group statistically and significantly decreased compared with the control group, as well as the happiness. Results after 20 days showed that was maintained. In conclusion, the narrative therapy group counseling program using RPG (Role Playing Game) format in this study was found to be effective in reducing negative emotions and increasing happiness.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.95-132
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• 2009

Can money buy happiness? If not, what are the factors that influence happiness? What makes people happy? What are the factors that influence happiness among Korean adults? How can we better explain factors that influence happiness? These are the research questions that led to the analyses of psychological, relational, financial resources that influence happiness. To examine differences in socio-economic status, adults and elderly from three different districts that vary wealth and income were interviewed in their own home. A total of 313 respondents (male=133, female=180) between the ages of 20 through 80 completed a questionnaire that contained background information, emotional support scale and happiness scale developed by the present researcher and resiliency of efficacy developed by Bandura(1995). The results are as follows. First, monthly income influence happiness to some extent, but when the variable was excluded from the path analysis, the goodness-of-fit did not change significantly. Although those who have more money can be happier, those without much money can also be happy. These results indicate that financial resource has limited influence on happiness. In addition, monthly income did influence self-efficacy of respondents indicating that those with more money were not necessarily more confident about themselves. Second, an important factor influencing happiness is the relational resource. Emotional support was the most powerful predictor of happiness, four to five times more important than monthly income. Third, self-efficacy influenced happiness. Those respondents with higher resiliency of efficacy had higher happiness scores and the influence was two times greater than monthly income. Moreover, self-efficacy played a mediating role between emotional support and happiness. Fourth, those respondents with higher occupational achievement reported higher happiness score and the influence was two times greater than monthly income. Fifth, success of children influenced happiness score and the influence was 1.5 times greater than monthly income. Sixth, education did not directly influence happiness, but had an indirect influence through self-efficacy and occupational achievement. Seventh, age was not related to self-efficacy and happiness.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.106-113
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• 2020

This study analyzed the impact of leisure activities on school life satisfaction in the cultural rights and self-determination of teenagers who spend most of their time in school in the college entrance exam-oriented climate, and examined the effects of happiness and life satisfaction on the school life satisfaction through a process macro applying Bias Corrected Bootstrapping in these relationships. For research purposes, 2,590 cohorts in the first year of the 2018 Korea Children and Youth Panel Survey were analyzed through process macros. The result was that leisure life had a significant effect on school life satisfaction. It was also found that happiness and satisfaction in life affect satisfaction, and happiness and satisfaction in life affect satisfaction in school life and serve as a medium. This study confirmed that teenagers' participation in leisure activities greatly affects school life satisfaction and that happiness and life satisfaction have a mediating effect on school life satisfaction. In addition, we could recognize the importance of leisure activities to the satisfaction of school life of teenagers, and find it necessary to develop and provide various program graphs of schools and communities for happiness and satisfaction in life. This study verified that the participation of leisure activities of adolescents has a significant effect on school life satisfaction, and that happiness and life satisfaction have a mediating effect on school life satisfaction. In addition, we could recognize the importance of leisure activities to the satisfaction of school life of teenagers, and find it necessary to develop and provide various program graphs of schools and communities for happiness and satisfaction in life. Therefore, this research is believed to be possible to contribute to academic and practical programs for youth leisure activities and school life relationships, and to make policy suggestions for the development and participation of various leisure activities in order to fully enjoy and protect youth's rights to culture and self-determination of leisure activities.