• 아동학회지
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.133-144
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• 2016

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the mediation effect of value of children in the relationship between maternal parenting stress and ideal number of children and to verify whether perception of the adequacy of national public childcare facilities moderates this mediation relationship. Methods: For the analysis, the 6th year results (2013) from the Panel Study on Korean Children by the Korean Institute of Child Care and Education were used. The main subjects of the study were 1,611 mothers with children aged 60 - 66 months. Results: First, there was a partial mediation effect of mother's parenting stress influencing the ideal number of children through the value of children. Second, the enhancing effect of the perception of the adequacy of national public childcare facilities moderating the value of children and ideal number of children was verified. Third, perception of the adequacy of national public childcare facilities had enforcing effects moderating the value of children and ideal number of children and mediation effects moderating the influence of maternal parenting stress on ideal number of children through the value of children. Conclusion: Based on the results, it was confirmed that the expansion of national public childcare facilities is a factor strengthening the maternal intention of birth.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.191-196
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• 1974

Recently, during several years the number of ideal children have not changed at all. Because the most of Korean people considered that son is necessary absolutely for dependence in old age inheritance of family line and holding ritural and so on. Threfore, without revolution of value system for children we could no more expect to reduce fertility rate. The survey is intended to compare the characteristics between those women who want two or less number of ideal children and all married women(regardless the number of ideal children). The results showed as follows: The women who want small size of family were younger and little better educated than those of all married women. The age at marriage of women who want small size of family was older than that of all married women. The conducted rate of induced abortion and acceptance rate of contraception among those women who want small size of family were higher than those of all married women. The rate of those who want less than 2 children socalled ideal No. among all married women was 3.9 percent.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.85-93
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to investigate the Korean's value of children and perception of parenting difficulty through the agreement to the three kinds of Korean proverbs: difficulty of parenting, preference of son and value of daughter. Also, this study attempted to identify whether the value of children and the perceived difficulty of parenting measured by the agreement of the proverb is related to the number of children they thought as ideal before marriage and the number of children they actually have. Total 385 married men and women who have a job participated in the survey. Main result is as follows. 1) In most cases, the ideal number of children was at least equal or more than the actual number of children. 2) The subjects showed higher degree of agreement to the proverbs regarding the difficulty of parenting than the preference of son or the value of daughter. 3) The degree of agreement to each kind of proverbs were different in terms of some demographic variables such as age and sex. 4) When the age effect controlled, the ideal number of son had correlation with the agreement to the son-preference proverbs while the ideal number of daughter or total children had no correlation with agreement to any kinds of proverb. The actual number of son was positively correlated with agreement to the son-preference proverbs while actual number of daughter was negatively correlated with it. In conclusion, this study suggests the Korean's value of children has been rapidly changing and it has, in part, an effect on the number of children they want to have or they actually have.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.251-268
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• 2014

Applying the data from 64 single(26 men and 38 women) and 71 childless married men and women(37 men and 34 women) aged between 30 and 45, this study is to understand their future fertility intention. For this purpose, ideal and real number of children that participants plan to have were compared using paired t-test. Second, demographic variables(sex, age, marital status), child care related variables(thoughts about caring children, child care value), individual characteristics(gender role attitude, relation orientation) and social context variables(perceived economic condition, recognition of low fertility policies) were included in a stepwise regression model to explain expected number of children participants plan to have in the future. Results showed that ideal number of children participants wish to have was significantly higher than real number of children they expect to have in the Korean society. The stepwise regression model explained 35% of the variance of the dependent variable. Among four types of variables, child care related variables most powerfully explained expected number of children study participants plan to have in the future. Finally, age, child care value, gender role attitude, and relation orientation significantly explained expected number of children in the future.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.203-209
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• 1974

This study is intended to comparison of the recent ideal number of children and atrial approach for analyzing value system for children that form attitude affecting birth control with earlier study conducted 10 years ago. In general the traditional fertility pattern of Korea may be considered as 'early marriage and high fertility' backed by the confucian value system of a farming-oriented country. A selective attitude favoring sons contributes substantially to fertility. But Korea is now moving toward a late marriage and fertility pattern. This has been due to the repid introduction of western culture and a partial acceptance of western value systems, a relative weakening of traditional value systems, a gradual increase in infant and child servival rates thresh medicines, and a desire to avoid having too many children because of economic poverty. This study showed following results: Ideal number of sons and daughters in urban area was decreased by 0.2 respectively compared to earlier study. In rural area, the number of decrease of sons and daughters was 0.5 and 0.2 respectively. The conception concerning Happiness has changed to wealth from health in previous opinion. Regarding attitude toward having sons, 98 percent of them wanted to have sons positively, moreover 10 percent of them wanted two or more sons. Regarding reasons for the wanting sons, we see that economic and traditional considerations, such as dependance in old age, and inheritance of the family line, are a principle concern of about 56 percent in both areas. The rate of dependence in old age was decreased conspicuously compare to previous study while the rate of helding rituals was increased remarkably in rural area. Among reasons for limiting family size. 'for better living and for better education for their children were main rasons reted 46 percent in urban, 51 percent in rural areas. The rates were not changed compare to previous study. Regarding attitude of those who have no son or children, the rate of re-marriage with second wife was decreased remarkably in rural area and the rate of living without special behaivor for having son was increased compare to previous study.

• 한국사회정책
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.219-241
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• 2018

이 연구의 목적은 여성의 경제생활 위험인식이 출산 격차에 미치는 영향을 분석하는 데 있다. 여성이 체감하는 실업 빈곤의 위험, 주거불안의 위험, 금융불안의 위험, 경기침체 불안의 위험 등 경제생활 위험이 실제 출산한 자녀의 수와 이상적으로 생각하는 자녀의 수의 차이에 유의한 영향을 미치는지를 살펴보고자 했다. 이를 위해 한국종합사회조사(KGSS) 2014년도 자료를 활용하여 탐색적 요인분석, 신뢰도 분석, 상관관계 분석과 다중 회귀분석을 수행하였다. 분석결과, 경제생활 위험의 발생 가능성을 심각하게 인식하는 여성일수록 출산한 자녀의 수가 적은 반면 출산 격차는 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이 연구는 이상의 결과를 바탕으로 정책적 제언을 제시하였다.

• 아동학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.67-82
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to examine parents' image of kindergarten teacher in a bid to provide useful information on kindergarten teacher and parents education to improve the image of kindergarten teachers. The participants in this study were 90 mothers whose young children attended kindergarten in the city of Busan. They were asked to describe what words came into their mind about the image of kindergarten teacher and what an ideal image of kindergarten teacher should be like. Among the participants, ten mothers were interviewed to tell about the ideal image of kindergarten teacher. The largest number of the parents wrote down the words that represented the image of the personality of kindergarten teachers, and love and friendliness were the most common words that the parents mentioned. As for an ideal image of kindergarten teacher, they wanted kindergarten teachers to love preschoolers, to have a good and friendly personality, to see through young children's eyes and to be positive and happy. It indicated that the parents expected their children to be educated by teachers who are understanding, cheerful, have a good personality and love children as their own children.

• 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.127-152
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• 2012

이 연구의 주된 목적은 유아 어머니와 외할머니 세대의 자녀와 관련된 인식을 비교 분석하는데 있다. 이를 위해 이상적인 자녀 수, 자녀의 성별에 대한 선호도, 노후부양에 대한 기대, 자녀가치를 중심으로 집단별 비교를 하였다. 또한 유아 어머니와 외할머니 세대집단별로 현재의 자녀 수에 영향을 미친 긍정적이고 부정적인 자녀가치 인식을 분석하였다. 최종 분석대상은 총 442명으로서, 유아 어머니 집단 221명과 그들의 어머니인 외할머니 집단 221명이었다. 유아 어머니와 외할머니의 평균 연령은 각각 35.36세, 63.27세였다. 측정도구는 김의철, 박영신, 권용은(2005)의 질문지에 토대하여 연구자가 제작하였으며, Cronbach α=.78-.91이었다. 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 이상적인 자녀 수에 대한 인식에서 유의한 차이가 있었는데, 유아 어머니는 2명을, 외할머니는 4명을 가장 많이 지적하였다. 이상적인 아들 수에 대한 인식에서도 유아 어머니는 1명을, 외할머니는 2명을 가장 많이 지적하였다. 둘째, 자녀의 성별에 대한 선호도에서, 유아 어머니는 아들이든 딸이든 상관없다는 인식을, 외할머니는 아들이 1명은 있어야 한다는 인식을 가장 많이 하였다. 또한 한 자녀만 낳을 때, 유아 어머니는 아들이든 딸이든 상관없다는 반응이 대부분이었으나, 외할머니는 반드시 아들을 원한다는 반응이 거의 반수에 가깝게 가장 많았다. 셋째, 외할머니가 유아 어머니보다 아들의 노후부양에 대한 기대가 높았다. 그러나 두 집단간에 딸의 노후부양에 대한 기대에서는 차이가 없었다. 넷째, 유아 어머니와 외할머니 집단은 긍정적 자녀가치와 부정적 자녀가치에서도 매우 유의한 차이가 있었다. 자녀를 가지면 좋은 점으로서, 유아 어머니는 외할머니보다 심리적 즐거움이나 행복과 같이 개인적 측면, 가족 결속력의 증진이나 가족공동체의 형성과 같은 가족관계적 측면을 더욱 강조하였으며, 외할머니는 유아 어머니보다 가문을 잇는다든가 노후대책과 같은 사회적 측면을 더욱 강조하였다. 한편 자녀를 가지면 어려운 점으로서, 유아 어머니는 외할머니보다 부모역할 부담과 같은 개인적 측면을 더욱 강조하였으며, 외할머니는 유아어머니보다 가정불화나 가족관계 악화와 같은 가족관계적 측면을 더욱 강조하였다. 다섯째, 현재 자녀 수에 영향을 미친 자녀가치를 분석한 결과, 유아 어머니 집단 경우에 경제적 부담과 같은 부정적 자녀가치가 의미있는 변인으로 작용하였다. 반면에 외할머니 집단 경우에는 가문을 이음과 같은 긍정적 자녀가치가 영향력 있는 변인으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.67-75
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• 1980

Natural increase rate in population is reached to 1.7% in 1975 fron 2.5% in 1966 because of the effect of Govermental Family Planning Program. The average number of present children and ideal children is just the same, 2.4 people, in this investigation. So, I assume that the number of present and ideal children is approaching each other. The rate of unmarried female workers who don't know even one thing about the know ledge of contraception was 23.9%, and especially that of rural women was 31.5% and 41.3% of them has never experienced contraception. 'Boy-preference' presented 60.1% of unmarried female workers and 79.1% of married women. 'Connection of a family line' related to 'Transfer to next generation of a family line' presented 38.0% and 'Trustworthiness' related to 'Leadership of a family' presented 26.0% (total 64.0%). As this point, Ive can find that this rate reveals the traditional sense of patriarchal system in society and family. The rate of women of experienced artificial abortion has been 52.1% and that of women using it as birth control caused by 'Many children' and 'Short brith-interval' 46.6% of women of experienced pregnancy. So, we can see that artificial abortion is a main cause of Maternal Health destruction.

• 한국인구학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.42-52
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• 1986

An attempt had been made to obtain current information on induced abortion among currently married women aged 15 to 44. The source of data was 1985 National Fertility and Family Planning Survey conducted by Korea Institute for Population and Health in may 1985. 1. At the time of the survey, 53 percent of currently married women aged 15 to 44 had experienced induced abortion: 25.5 percent of the respondents who had experienced induced abortion only one time and another 27.6 percent more than two times. 2. The proportion of women who had experienced induced abortion seemed to increase according to the advance in age. It seemed that there was no significant difference in the experience rate of induced abortion by academic career, and there was inverse relationship between the experience rate of induced abortion and the age at first marriage. The experience rate if induced abortion by the number of living children was highest among those who had three children as 65.6 percent. 3. To analyze the effect of induced abortion on fertility, this study employed multiple regression analysis as a statistical technique. Instead of index representing fertility level the number of living children served as dependent variable. Independent variables used in analysis included age, age at first marriage, education level, ideal number of children, religion, frequency of induced abortion, total number of pregnancies and participation in labor force. Standardized partial regression coefficient of induced abortion was no less than -0.61. So, it can be concluded that induced abortion offered the great contribution on the birth control. A consistant health education and efficient management of family planning program would be essential for effectiveness of contraceptive practice.