• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.592-601
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among empathy ability, gratitude tendency, helping behavior, and happiness of college students and whether gratitude tendency and help behaviors are mediators in the relationship between empathy ability and happiness. For this purpose, Date were collected from 559 college students in S and K city. The SPSS 20.0 program was used to analyze the statistical data such as the mean and standard deviation of the data. To analyze the validity of the study, it conducted confirmatory factor analysis using AMOS. Finally, we analyzed the effect of empathy on happiness by using the bootstrap procedure in order to investigate the mediating effects of gratitude tendency and helping behavior. The results of the study are as follows. First, the correlation of each was positive. Second, in the relationship between empathy ability and happiness, the gratitude tendency was a statistically significant mediator. Third, helping behavior was a statistically significant mediator between empathy and happiness. Fourth, in the relationship between empathy ability and happiness, it did not do dual mediate to the gratitude tendency and help behavior. The implications and limitations of this study are discussed.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.413-423
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to verify the factors influencing the happiness index for elderly patients hospitalized in nursing hospitals with a structural model. A survey was conducted on 237 people in 6 nursing hospitals in G city from July 1 to August 15, 2018, and analyzed with SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 18.0 programs. As a result of the research, the direct effect on the happiness index is the greatest factor, Next, perceived health status, economic status, and nursing satisfaction are in order, and the explanatory power is 66%. Both direct and indirect economic conditions were found to have a significant effect, and hospitalization period only had indirect effects through helplessness and nursing satisfaction. Therefore, development and application of various programs that can reduce the feeling of helplessness and improve the perceived health status. It is believed that an integrated management system, such as support system support and nursing intervention, suitable for each individual situation is needed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.112-120
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• 2020

This study examined the relationship between the happiness, empowerment, and nursing performance of nurses with more than one-year of clinical experience, and the factors affecting the nursing performance. The subjects were 164 nurses who worked in two general hospitals in Incheon and Chungcheong-do, Korea. Data were collected from October to November 2018. The main findings of this study were as follows. The mean scores for happiness, empowerment, and nursing performance were 3.07±0.36, 3.37±0.43, and 3.40±0.44 points. Happiness was positively correlated with empowerment (r=.58, p<.01) and nursing performance (r=.58, p<.01), empowerment was positively correlated with the nursing performance (r=.58, p<.01). The factors influencing the nursing performance were empowerment (β=.65, p<.001), total length of a clinical career (β=.19, p<.001), education level (β=.12, p<.05), and happiness (β=.12, p=.05), showing an explanatory power of 64%. Based on these results, it is necessary to provide sufficient human and physical resources to improve the nursing performance and manage the organizational level to increase the nurses' happiness and empowerment. To improve the work performance of nurses, an empowerment improvement program tailored to the clinical experience and educational level should be developed, and the working environment that can increase the nurse's happiness should be improved.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.279-300
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• 2012

Many studies have demonstrated that family plays a crucial role in health and wellbeing in life. There has been little research, however, examining the relative importance of activities together with family members in middle-aged adults. The goal of this study was to examine the effect of family meal, phone conversation with family, and family leisure activities on happiness, health, and family relationship. Total 286 middle-aged adults (M=50.13) participated in this study. Dependent variables were happiness (SWB), physical and psychological illness symptoms, family satisfaction, sex satisfaction, and parenting sense of competence. This research showed that (1) frequency of meal with family was positively correlated with happiness, family relationship, and negatively physical/psychological illness symptoms; (2) high frequency of talking on the phone with family resulted in that high level of happiness, family satisfaction, sex satisfaction, and parenting sense of competence, and lower illness symptoms; (3) the more participants spent leisure time with family, the happier and the more family satisfaction they feel. Findings suggest that activities together with family members in middle-aged adults may enhance their happiness, health, and quality of family relationship. The implication for current study were discussed.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.271-293
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• 2017

Despite the benefits of social activity on happiness, humans still spend over one third of their time by themselves-sleeping. The effect of sleep quality on happiness as well as its underlying mechanism are examined in this study. Based on previous findings on the role of sleep in consolidation of memories, it was hypothesized that a good sleep would promote happiness by increasing the likelihood of recalling everyday episodes in a positively biased manner. In Study 1, regardless of one's demographic variables, social variables, and economic status, sleep quality was positively related to life satisfaction. To examine the causal direction of this effect, participants were asked to complete a survey twice with different time intervals. Controlling for baseline variables, sleep quality during previous two weeks (Study 2) or previous day (Study 3) significantly predicted the participants' life satisfaction. Moreover, this relationship was partially mediated by a positive memory bias (Study 3). This study opens interesting questions on a relatively unexamined nonsocial predictor of happiness, sleep quality.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Child Welfare
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• no.55
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• pp.113-141
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating roles of children interpersonal relations and mental health in the relationship between parent-child relationships and school life happiness, and the differences between single-parent and two-parent families, using structural equation modeling. Data were obtained from the 2013(second-wave) year of the Korean Educational Longitudinal Study. This study selected 6,643 elementary school 6th-grade students(756 from single-parent families and 5,887 from two-parent families). Data were examined with structural equation modeling and multi-group analysis using AMOS 18.0, and mediating effects were tested using the Sobel test. The results were as follows; First, the single-parent children reported lower levels of interpersonal relations, mental health, and school life happiness than the two-parent children. Second, interpersonal relations and mental health did play a mediating role in the relationship between parent-child relationships and school life happiness. Third, as a result of examining for total effect, the variable that most influenced school life happiness of children was interpersonal relations. Fourth, multi-group analysis did not show a statistically significant difference between single- and two-parent children in structural equation modeling.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.229-240
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• 2016

Academic resilience of individual competencies that have overcome fatal or chronic adversity seen as a excessive threat in academic scene is the psychological ability to overcome stress. This study is a survey research carried try to identify the factors that affect the academic resilience of nursing students. Interpersonal communication competence and happiness to target the nursing students of the total 554 people to investigate the effect on the academic resilience, were analyzed using the SPSS version 21.0. The main results are as follows. (1) academic resilience could vary depending on the grade, living arrangements, Interpersonal relationship, personality and academic performance. (2) academic resilience had a positive correlation with interpersonal communication competence(r=.46, p<.001) and happiness(r=.35, p<.001). (3) factors that had significant impact on academic resilience of nursing students were grade(p=.002), living arrangements(p=.001), academic performance(p<.001), interpersonal communication competence(p<.001) and happiness(p<.001) and explanatory power was 36.9%. Through this study, interpersonal communication competence and happiness were identified as having the positive effect on academic resilience. As a follow-up, in order to improve academic resilience, a study to develop programs that would promote interpersonal communication competence and happiness are suggested.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.90-100
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• 2015

There are a lot of effort to improve medical service quality and medical trust in Korean Medicine. However, in spite of importance of personalized medicine, there are still few research about it. Thus, the purpose of this study is to grope ways to improve medical service quality and medical trust by sympathy module group and personalized trust. People over 19 were participated in investigation. We divided respondents into 4 groups depending on sympathy module group and 2 groups depending on speed of trust. Questionnaire was consisted of questions about sympathy module group, speed of trust, medical service quality, medical trust, satisfaction and happiness. This questionnaires were conducted through personal interviews. Total 220 members responded to the survey and the results of the analysis were as follows. Rational type had the highest proportion. At Medical service quality scale, Prevention focus group had most highest figure on Confidence. Promotion focus group and Rational Group had most highest figure on Sympathy. At Medical trust scale, Medical team had the highest proportion at all group. Prevention focus group put more emphasis on sense of sanitation, At Satisfaction and Happiness scale, Satisfaction and Happiness was most affected by Trust in Sincerity and Ability. This study can be very useful for composing kit of treatment of personalized medicine. But this study has also some limits such as respondent selection, disease selection etc. So, more detailed and comprehensive survey is needed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.454-466
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• 2018

The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of the experience of youth activities during high school years on the leadership life skills of college students and to identify the mediating effects of self-esteem and happiness. For the purposes, we investigated the youth activities during high school years of college students had experienced. We also measured self-esteem, happiness, and leadership life skills of the students. We surveyed 260 students and analyzed the data of 234 students. The results are as follows. First, there was a significant positive association between the experience of youth activities and leadership life skills. Second, self-esteem and happiness showed a partial mediating effects on the relationship between the youth activity and leadership life skill. Based on the results, this study suggested policy and practical implications to help youths develop competency needed for adulthood through participating youth activities.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.341-351
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• 2018

The study aimed to investigate the impact of teacher's occupational stress on their sense of happiness and enthusiasm for teaching profession in early childhood institutions according to their occupational stress. For these purposes, data were collected from 321 early childhood teachers in Gyeonggi province. The results of this study were as follows: First, there was a statistically significant difference in sense of happiness of early childhood teachers according to occupational stress level. Second, there was no statistically significant difference in overall enthusiasm for teaching profession according to occupational stress level, but significant differences among sub-factors. Third, as a result of examining the effects of occupational stress on sense of happiness and enthusiasm for teaching profession for early childhood teachers, all of them had a statistically significant effect, except overall enthusiasm. It is expected that this study will help to provide basic data for preparing a happy classroom environment.