• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.23-36
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• 2017

Purpose - In this study, dating in the elderlys' life gave satisfaction: for elderly men, dating gave them self esteem, and in women they were satisfied with the realities. This study investigated the effect of dating in the elderly on their happiness. Research design, data, and methodology - These days, the elderly population rapidly increased to produce a social issue and studies of such in welfare policy for the elderly are limited. The elderly has lost roles in the society because aged people give up human reason and love in accordance with the traditional expectations of them. Subjects in this study were related with investigating the elderly's dating life, loneliness and happiness. Results - The date life of the elderly had significant influence upon psychological loneliness. Hypothesis was adopted and results showed the degree of elderly's dating life had a significant influence upon psychological loneliness (.230**) to account for 13.2% of psychological loneliness. Needs of dating elderly had influence upon psychological loneliness. Conclusions - Psychological loneliness was mediated with dating in the elderly for opportunity and happiness. Hypothesis was that the dating had influence upon happiness. As a result, date opportunity, degree, needs and friendliness had no significant influence upon happiness.

• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.465-484
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among savoring, happiness and optimism of elementary school students. This study is also expected to provide basic informations for the promotion of the happiness and optimism of elementary school students. The subjects were 495 fifth and sixth graders from 10 primary schools located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. The measurement were the savoring test, the happiness test and the optimism test. The collected data was analyzed using the i-STATistics program(Kim & Baker, 2012). The study results were as followings: First, female students had higher scores than male students in the savoring test, the happiness test and the optimism test. And there were significant gender differences in savoring, happiness and optimism. Second, there was a significantly positive correlation between savoring and happiness(home environment, self-attributes, abilities, and interpersonal relationships) at the level of p<0.001. And the regression analysis result showed that savoring contains explanatory power of 60.70% for happiness. Third, there was a significantly positive correlation between savoring and optimism(expectations for the future) at the level of p<0.001. And the regression analysis result showed that savoring contains explanatory power of 66.51% for optimism. The result of this study shows that savoring has a high correlation to happiness and optimism. Happiness and optimism of children can be enhanced by increasing savoring. Therefore, the development and verification of savoring program for children is required.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.443-450
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• 2015

Objectives: The purpose of the study is to identify the relationship between happiness, subjective oral health condition and oral health behavior in Korean elderly people. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 487 elderly people using facilities for the senior citizens in Gyeonggi-do from January 3 to November 28, 2014 by convenience sampling method. The questionnaire consisted of demographic characteristics of the subjects, subjective oral health status, oral health behavior, and happiness. Cronbach'a alpha in the happiness was 0.734 in the study. Results: Happiness was closely correlated with abscence of subjective periodontal diseases, dental fillings, and denture. The number of toothbrushing and dental health education had also influenced on happiness. Conclusions: In order to improve the quality of dental health in the elderly, it is necessary to develop a multilateral systematic dental health promotion program by Ministry of Health and Welfare.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.155-165
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• 2019

The sense of happiness of early childhood teachers has a great influence not only on teaching but also on infants. The purpose of this research is to investigate how prospective pre-service teachers' sense of happiness influence their teacher professionalism and teacher efficacy. The subjects were 264 pre-service teachers' in Gwangju metropolitan city and Jeollanamdo province. Statistical analysis of this study was done by Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis using SPSS WIN 22.0 program. The results of this study were as follows. First, there were significant positive relationships among the sense of happiness on teacher professionalism and teacher efficacy. There was a significant positive correlation between external happiness, inner happiness, and self-regulated happiness, which are indicating that there is a meaningful correlation between pre-service teachers' sense of happiness, teacher professionalism and teacher efficacy. Second, the sense of happiness was an important factor for predicting the teacher professionalism and teacher efficacy of pre-service early childhood teachers. The results of this study show that the pre - service teacher 's sense of happiness is a predictor variable that positively affects teacher professionalism and teacher efficacy. In conclusion, It is meaningful in seeking ways to improve teacher education by enhancing the euphoria of prospective pre-service teachers during school life and strengthening positive aspects of the educational contents and processes of the institutions that train infant teachers.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.65-83
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• 2018

This study examines the relationship among vocation awareness, ethical practice and happiness of daycare center director and teacher of christian, and how the vocation awareness effects the ethical practice and happiness. After a survey from 303 director and teacher of christian daycare center, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were done. The results are as follows. Firstly, vocation awareness, ethical practice and happiness were highly correlated. Second of all, the higher the vocation awareness, especially in purpose/meaning-presence and prosocial-motivation-presence of vocation awareness, the higher the ethical practice. Lastly, the higher the vocation awareness, the higher the happiness. The purpose/meaning-presence and prosocial-motivation-presence of vocation awareness had great influence on happiness.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.391-409
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• 2022

In this study, class demonstrations conducted integrating science education and 'Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)' by pre-service science teachers were analyzed, focusing on the concept of 'sustainable happiness' and the main elements of 'complexity theory'. In addition, changes before and after participating in such education implementation were analyzed from various angles. Through this, pre-service science teachers tried to derive implications for developing multidimensional teacher professionalism in ESD. The main findings are as follows. First, as a result of peer evaluation of class materials and class demonstrations designed by pre-service science teachers, the average of the integration for 'sustainable happiness' was relatively high. Next, it was analyzed that the elements of 'sustainable happiness' and 'complexity theory' generally had a positive correlation with ESD. In addition, after participating in the study, pre-service science teachers considered individual and social behavioral patterns as important in the sense of ESD. Regarding the need to integrate science education and ESD, pre-service science teachers thought it was necessary to deal with the concept of 'sustainable happiness' in science education to understand a sustainable way of life. It was analyzed that the elements of 'sustainable happiness' and 'complexity theory' generally had a positive correlation with ESD. It was found that pre-service science teachers' confidence in incorporating ESD in science classes was significantly higher after participation in the study. In addition, it was analyzed that pre-service science teachers have come to think more about the role of teachers who can communicate with students and think about happy lives together than before. Overall, it is thought that pre-service science teachers have come to think of multidimensional science teacher professionalism by applying the perspective of the teaching and learning strategy of the new ESD, which integrates the concept of 'sustainable happiness' and elements of 'complexity theory'.

• Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.117-129
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to verify the effect of the authentic leadership of social enterprise leaders on the happiness and job crafting of employees, the mediation effect of job crafting in the authentic leadership of the leader and the happiness of the employees, and the coordination effect by the Grit of the employees. For verification, the relationship between authentic leadership and job crafting, happiness and grit and seven research theories were established. In addition, 47 questionnaires were drawn through prior research on happiness, authentic leadership, job crafting, and grit, and five executives and workers of social enterprises in Chungcheongbuk-do(Province) were surveyed on a five-point Likert scale. The collected survey data were conducted through the SPSS and AMOS for basic statistical analysis. The Macro Process of the bootstrap method was used to verify the mediation effects, the regulated effects. This study has conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, structural model analysis through the survey results and the analysis results verify the hypothesizes. The study found that authentic leadership affects the happiness and job crafting of employees, and that job crafting affects the happiness of employees, and the relationship between authentic leaders and employees affects job crafting. It has also been shown that the Grit of its employees affects their job crafting and happiness and also has a mediation effect on job crafting and happiness. In the policy environment of the changing rural development project, the social economy establishment plan for the virtuous circle of resources in the region should be considered, and education programs should be introduced to improve the authentic leadership of the leaders.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.584-595
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to examine how basic psychological needs of elementary school physical education classes influence school happiness and physically active lifestyles. Questionnaires were distributed to 300 elementary schoolers in five elementary schools in I city. After excluding 22 incomplete questionnaires, a total of 278 questionnaires were used for data analysis. For data analysis, descriptive analysis, exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis were used. Correlation analysis revealed that the competence and relatedness of basic psychological needs are positively correlated with all the subsets of school happiness and moderate-vigorous physical activity. Multiple regression showed that the competence of basic psychological needs positively predicted self-respect and relationships with teachers of school happiness and also predicted moderate-vigorous physical activity. Multiple regression also showed that the relatedness of basic psychological needs positively predicted all the subsets of school happiness. The findings indicate the importance of basic psychological needs in physical education classes on school happiness and physically active lifestyles. Thorough this research, it is hoped that the values of physical education classes in elementary schools increase.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.469-479
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• 2022

This study aims to examine the mediating effects of positive parenting attitudes, self-esteem, and depression on the relationship between parental happiness and children's happiness. To this end, the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey 2018 were used. Structural equation modeling was implemented based on 2,551 data collected from fourth-grade children of elementary school and their parents. The happiness felt by the parents was found to have a positive correlation with positive parenting attitudes, self-esteem, and happiness perceived by the children, and a negative correlation with the children's depression. And, the happiness felt by the parents was found to affect the happiness of children by sequentially progressing through positive parenting attitudes, children's self-esteem and depression. Such results reflect how parents who perceive themselves to be happy tend to be warm, provide structure, and support the autonomy of their children. This also shows how such positive parenting attitudes encourage children to believe that they are valuable individuals and how this plays a role in reducing their sense of depression and enhancing their happiness.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2015

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of happiness index in dental hygienists. This study can be used to improve the quality of life and the turnover intention in the dental hygienists. Methods: The subjects were 281 dental hygienists in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, and Chungcheong province. A self-reported questionnaire was completed by the subjects. The questionnaire consisted of 7 questions of general characteristics of the subjects, 7 questions of dental hygiene performance, and 9 questions of happiness index. The instrument for happiness index was modified from Suh and Koo. Cronbach's alpha was 0.850 in the happiness index measure by Likert 7 scale. The instrument for professionalism was modified from Baek and consisted of 25 questions measure by Likert 5 scale. Cronbach's alpha was 0.694 in the professionalism. The instrument for turnover intention was modified from Lee and consisted of 5 questions measured by Likert 5 scale. Cronbach's alpha was 0.712 in turnover intention. Data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0. for one way ANOVA, Duncan posthoc test, Pearson correlation coefficients and hierarchical regression. Results: The means of happiness index, professionalism and turnover intention of subjects were 4.44, 3.06 and 3.05, respectively. The happiness index was higher in those who are married(4.66), those who have high income, and those who have careers in dental hygienists(4.61). There were significant differences in the happiness index by the average daily working hours, place of treatment, work intensity and off duty hours. Conclusions: This study suggests that improvement of the happiness index in clinical dental hygienists requires the continuing and systematic education program and administrative support that can reduce the turnover intention.