• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.29-39
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• 1997

This study was to explore the effects of the preferences to housewives' employment and the type of household financial management leadership on the financial communication and equality of financial power perceived by working wives. From results of this study, the followings were concluded: 1. Housewives' income power leaded to the increase of their financial decision-making leadership and the more active participation to the financial matters. 2. The influences of husbands' leadership on the household finance were greater than one of wives' leadership. Depending on who has the financial management leadership, there were the differences on degree of the understanding and the discretion. 3. Although joint management style was popular today. the major management leadership was belonged to husbands based on the traditional value of sex role in the household financial management area.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.1-16
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• 2007

The authors examined how Korean housewives manage family resources, make decisions, handle pressures, and negotiate the constraints of everyday life in a society that places unrealistic expectations upon them. The authors approached housewives by imagining them as thinking, strategizing, and problem-solving individuals, who are capable of speaking for themselves and making choices within situational and personal limits. Eleven full-time housewives were interviewed on how they experience their marriages, children, families, and society. Their narratives were then analyzed to sort out the strategies the women employed to maintain their identities. The narratives showed women's will and agency as they worked to resolve the contradictions in their daily life, and revealed individual differences within this group of women who are often seen as homogenous.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.37-51
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• 1993

The Objects of this study are: 1. To compare the housework time of housewives by region and employment status. 2. To compare the economic value of housework by region and employment status. 3. To evaluate the economic value of housework by each method. The subjects of this study were 815 housewives living in Taegu and Kyungsangpookdo. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentile, T-test, ANOVA and Seheffe test by SPSS PC programs: 1) The average housework time was 7.8hours per day. Full-time housewives spent 8.2hours and employed housewives spent 6.7hours to housework. 2) Partially there were significant difference in economic value of housework by employment status. 3) Estimates of economic value of housework by each method of evaluation are : (unit : won) sample mean method monthly (1) Specialized substitute method 587,080 (2) Overall substitute method 760,640 (3) Opportunity cost method 556,060 (4) Reservation wage method 534,070 (5) Subjective evalution method 644,540

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.602-614
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• 1995

The purposes of this study were 1) to reveal the consumer's brand loyalty on clothing, 2) to identify the relationships between the consumer's clothing brand loyalty and consumer characteristics, product characteristics, and consumer's clothing buying behavior. Subjects were selected from the employed and unemployed housewives living in Taejon. A questionnaire was developed and administered by 316 housewives during Spring in 1992. Data were analysed by frequency, Pearson's correlation coefficient, regression and oneway- ANOVA. The result.; of the study were as follows: 1) The half of subjects had brand loyalty on clothing. 2) The relationships between consumer's clothing brand loyalty and housewives' and her husbands 'educational level and average income of a month were significant. Consumer's clothing brand loyalty and housewives 'age had significantly negative relationship. 3) Consumer's clothing brand loyalty was significantly related to price of clothing. 4) The relationships between consumer's clothing brand loyalty and satisfaction toward brands, and the store patronage behavior were significant. The relationships between consumer's clothing brand loyalty and her prepurchase information search behavior, and the amount of purchasing of clothing were not significant.

• Proceedings of KHEA Conference
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• 1997.07a
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• pp.214-214
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• 1997

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.43-51
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to assess the sanitation level and purchase behavior of fishery products, and to identify management conditions of bad smell from cooking fish at home as perceived by housewives in a metropolitan area. Frequency analysis, descriptive analysis, and cross-tabulation analysis were employed as statistical techniques for current study. Total 270 were collected from housewives. The statistical variables included the kinds of cooking oil and the age of housewives, the types of hoods for fish roasting, the types of covers for fish grills, the number of family, the ventilation methods, and the maintenance of kitchen utensils based on family incomes, and they showed statistically significant differences(p<.05). Furthermore, the housewives whose sanitary cognition level for fishery products was high, the housewives whose level of purchase attitude was relatively high, and the housewives who utilized specialized kitchen utensils demonstrated statistically significant differences(p<.05). It resulted from the assessment of such actual conditions as difference of culinary environment according to the sanitation level of fishery products, the level of purchase attitude, and whether the housewives utilized special kitchen utensils or not. The more efforts were proved from those who had the intentions for improvement of an amenable culinary environment at homes, according to the higher income obtainers, the smaller nuclear family, the younger generation, whether the housewives utilized special kitchen utensils or not, and those who had the higher sanitary cognition level of fishery products. The above results were derived from an individual lifestyle or a dietary lifestyle, but eventually this seems to be related with the propensity and values hierarchy of individuals.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.15-26
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• 2006

The major questions of this study are whether and how the consciousness of value to housework and the performance of housework are related to the family life satisfaction in young housewives. The major findings are as follows : 1. The significant variables influencing the housewives' ability to perform housework are the age of the youngest child and degree of their consciouness of value to housework. 2. The degree of young housewives' preference for housework may be influenced by the monthly income of their household, the area in which each of them lives, and the degree of their consciousness of value to housework. 3. The amount of the time that young housework perform housework can influenced by the age of their youngest child, the area in which each them lives, whether they are employed, and the degree of their consciousness of value to housework. Whether a young housewife is employed or not is epecially the most influential variable even among those significant variables stated above.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.381-391
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• 1996

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of housewives' dietary awareness and habits on the reduction and recycling of food waste products. We have done statistical analyses of 501 questionnaires answered by housewives living in Taegu city. The results are as follows: The dietary awareness is significantly different according to the housewives' ages. The group of above 50's age and the group of housewives and their husbands with a lower education level have a more traditional awareness and eating up habits. Also the younger group, and those with a higher education level who grew up in a big city have a more progressive dietary awareness. But the younger, higher income, small family, higher education level groups, and also employed housewives, produced more food waste products than the other groups, The groups thsose have traditional or rational awareness concerning dietary awareness, and those with good eating up and accurate cooking habits turned out to have more affirmative effects on the reduction and recycling of food waste products.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.123-139
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• 1987

A study on the House wife's Family Relation Satisfaction. This study aimed to investigate house wives satisfaction of their family relation. Major research question are as followings; 1. How do housewives satisfy their family relations? 2. What are difference in housewives satisfaction to such family relation areas. Marital relation, children relation, husband's parents relation, relative relation, and husband sister relation. 3. What are difference in housewives family relation satisfaction in terms of housewives personal variables (age, education, employment, husband job, family life cycle, family type…etc) The Subject of this study consisted of 863 housewives sampled in pusan, changwon area. The questionnaire which used in this study is made by the researcher. The data are analyzed statis factly. The finding of this study are as followings: 1. Home makers were found to show the high-satisfaction is 28.5%, the middle-satisfaction is 57.5% and the low satisfaction is 14.0%. And Pusan higher than changwon. T-test showed the significance according to Area(p<.05) 2. The satisfactioon of family-relations areas was showed that pusan higher than changwon homemakers on whole field. 3. The main factors which affected the state of satisfaction about their family-relations were their economical level, the state of employed of homemakers, the type of family.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.325-337
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• 2000

The purpose of this study was to investigate several aspects of eating out behavior especially in relation to food waste. The data were collected from 620 housewives in Jeonbuk area but, except for 134 case not eating out . The 66.9% of subjects ate eating out 1 to 2 times monthly. The younger in age, higher in education level and employed housewives, higher in monthly income have a more increase in eating out frequency. In the 50.8% of subjects food rest was rare when eating out. The higher in educational level and higher in monthly income have an inclination to more food waste. The 51.4% of subjects don't know [Good Menu System]. We housewives should order a planned and moderate food amount when eating out, and make an effort normally anywhere for the reduction of food waste, and then the wasted food and food rubbish will be reduced. Besides this, the restaurants should practice [Food Bank] & [Good Menu System] and the academic world should make further researches on this field. Moreover the government administration should enlighten the people and have a public information for the more reasonable food culture.