• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
• /
• v.33 no.1
• /
• pp.1-10
• /
• 2018

Sustainable meal management at home will be affected by the lifestyle of the housewife. This study examined the lifestyle of middle aged women and identified their practice levels of sustainable meal management at home. A total of 438 women, aged 35 to 59, managing the family's dietary life at home and living in Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, Daejeon, and Chonnan area participated in the survey. The middle aged women showed a higher performance level of hygiene-oriented (4.15) and health-oriented dietary life (3.59), but a less convenience-oriented dietary life (2.57). Based on their lifestyle, 3 clusters were extracted: Low-interest dietary life meal manager, health and quality pursuit meal manager, and convenience and eating-out pursuit active meal manager. Among them, the cluster of health and quality pursuit meal manager showed the highest sustainable practices in 7 dimensions of sustainable practices in the home except for the saving practices (p<0.001). The criteria suggested from the study can be applicable to the guidelines of sustainable meal management at home. The study can also be helpful for educators to identify the education themes for improving housewife's sustainable meal practices, having different lifestyle and sustainable meal practices.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
• /
• v.3 no.1
• /
• pp.51-65
• /
• 1999

The purpose of this study is to structure finance management education programme and to provide basic data orienting finance service system by means of analyzing the level of financial problem and its influential variables. The following is the result of this study: First, the level of financial problem perceived by housewife in urban areas is in the following order ; property which is perceived the least. Second, the level of financial problem perceived by housewife in urban areas is dependant on housewife age, husband education level, husband occupation, the degree of property, the degree of debts, tendency of fortune control, tendency of materialism, feeling of appropriate resource. It is especially noting that housewife in forties shows high level of financial of financial problem recognition than housewife in twenties does. This indicates needs for middle for middle-aged home management in which happens house moving to larger size, education of children, marriage of children, preparation for stabilization basis after children’s marriage, and shortage of surplus money. Third, variables which affect all sub-areas are family property sum, tendency of materialism, feeding of appropriate resources. The less family property sum, the stronger tendency of materialism, and the more perceive feeling of appropriate resources, the more perceive they financial problems.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
• /
• v.42 no.2
• /
• pp.51-68
• /
• 2008

The research which sees in the object, fundamental data under providing should have boiled 40 housewife students who are in the process of attending in the SOHAE college attempted about the effect which the bibliotherapy program reaches in stress decrement of the middle-aged woman. The result first, before bibliotherapy of the experimental group the stress degree was average 44.5%, after bibliotherapy the stress 10.25% degree came to be low with 34.25%. Second, recording where the private talk people all bibliotherapy which participated to a clinical bibliotherapy seems will be advanced the condition which is stabilized emotionally very, the stress relaxation which leads the bibliotherapy which is continuous and to seem in the family life management which is healthy strong desire.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
• /
• v.49 no.7
• /
• pp.111-122
• /
• 2011

This qualitative case study examined what type of clothing image middle aged housewives strive for, and how to classify the preferred clothing style. Secondly, we examined how their clothing image corresponded to age and observed the meaning of such changes over time. The participants of this study were eight middle aged housewives. This study was conducted through in-depth interviews that were based on an unstructured questionnaire, and the data were collected from January to October 2010. The results were as follows: First, result related to preferred clothing image implicated fashion, esthetic sense, and clothing concerns. Preferred clothing image fell into 'intelligent-colorful' and 'urban-neat' categories. The preferred clothing style types of the participants were labeled as 'trendy', 'classic', 'conservative', and 'unique'. Second, the clothing image that participants thought to be of greater value in middle age included 'graceful' and 'elegant' allowing for the expression of age-appropriate style, high quality, and mind of plenty.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
• /
• v.34 no.3
• /
• pp.327-343
• /
• 1996

This study is the last part of a collaborative study on the Family Life Issues of Middle aged Apartment-Residents in Seoul. This study is focused on case studies. The data were collected from 15 fulltime housewives who are in the upper-middle and the lower-middle families having at least one child in a middle or high school from Kangbuk and Kangnam areas. In this study, the whole family life issues were divided into the following 4 subareas ; 1. housewives' own life, 2. family life, 3. economic environments, 4. housing environments. The major result of this study is : the most important factor influencing the quality of life of the middle age family was the existence of children attending junior and senior high school, which brought various problems into the family with relation to self identity, time management and leisure of middle aged housewife, educational cost, shared family activities, housing space. Therefore the whole family life would be improved through the change of the current education system.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
• /
• v.7 no.1
• /
• pp.41-60
• /
• 2003

The purpose of this study is to examine the current and the future leisure activities of middle aged housewife living in the urban apartment. The data for the analysis are collected by the structured questionnaires. The data for 220 housewive who are forty's living in the urban apartment are analyzed using the descriptive statistics and the regression analysis. This study has resulted following major findings. 1) The current leisure activity participated the most frequently by the housewive is the family-oriented activity. The religious-sociable activity is found to be the least frequently participated by the housewive. 2) The leisure activity which the wive want to the most frequently participate in the future is also family-oriented activity. The self-developing activity is the one which the wive want to least frequently participate in the future. 3) The factors that influence the current leisure activities of the respondents are the occupational type of husband and wife, the educational level of wife, the age of the lastborn child and the leisure expenses. 4) The factors that influence the future leisure activities of the respondents are the occupational type of husband, the educational level and the occupational type of wife, the age of the lastborn child and the leisure time per week.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
• /
• v.12 no.5
• /
• pp.605-618
• /
• 2003

The purpose of this study was to develop the household analysis and diagnosis program for the enhancement of family welfare focusing on the household of middle-aged full-time housewives. From the review of related literatures, the following areas of total family life were selected ; household management, time use, housing, household materials, finance, communication and decision making. Considering that the program subjects were middle-aged full-time housewives, the preparation for elderly life and the identity as housewife, one of the healthy family members, are appended. The progresses for the development of household analysis and diagnosis program were as follows: 1. to select the useful area of family life, 2. to make the indicators which explain the status of family life, and 3. to decide the scales for the diagnosis. This program has various uses such as the development of self-evaluation program, program for various family life course. Through this program the strength and weakness of family life can be found and the planning for the enforcement of family life can be practiced.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fashion and Beauty
• /
• v.1 no.1 s.1
• /
• pp.49-64
• /
• 2003

A study on skin care of middle-aged women was conducted to develop proper skin care program. The study was performed from January 25, 2003 through March 24, 2003 by using questionnaires. The subjects were 380 from some area in Youngnam province. All subjects were females from 40 to 59 years. The results of this study are summarized as follows. 1. According to general characteristics of the subjects, 36.8% of them was from 40 to 44years old; 61.3% 'high school graduate' ; 61.1% 'housewife';89.2% 'married' ;76.1% 'middle class' ;55.8% 'living in small or medium sized city'. In the case of physical health conditions, 55.8% of the respondents was in good health and 63.9% answered that their face skins were healthy. Those who don't drink were 54.5%, and those who don't smoking were 92.9%. 2. In case of the knowledge level of skin care, it showed significant difference in the variables of education, occupation, and economic status. According to the knowledge level of skin care by physical health conditions, it was highest in the case of physically healthy respondents(7.77 point). Those who do not smoke marked higher knowledge level of skin care than those who smoke. Those who exercise also marked higher knowledge level of skin care, than those who don't exercise. 3. 86.8% of the subjects experienced the massage at home. It showed significant difference in the variable of education and place of residence. The knowledge and habit of skin care of middle-aged women showed significant difference according to the variable of education, economic status, and place of residence. Therefore, related professionals and organizations relating to the skin care must make efforts to develop education program for effective skin care for middle-aged women in order to enhance the knowledge level of skin care and information about skin health.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
• /
• v.24 no.1
• /
• pp.41-53
• /
• 2020

The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that affect middle-old aged housewives' participation in lifelong learning as a part of human resource development. Through purposive sampling, the study recruited 163 full-time housewives over age 40 years who live in C City. As a result, first, 87.1 percent of all respondents, or 142, said they were willing to participate in lifelong learning in the future. There was no statistically significant difference in the results of cross-checking by age, educational background and monthly household income variables. Additionally, we used cluster analysis to measure differences in participation intentions according to the perception of human resource development of middle-old aged full-time housewives. The perception variable of lifelong learning is: First, Cognitive degree, second, importance, third, activation awareness. Cluster 1(n=16) was divided into generally low-perception types, such as cognitive degree, importance, and life-long learning activation of the C city, while Cluster 2(n=61) was classified as a type of person who thinks that lifelong learning is important to life and Cluster 3(n=86) was generally classified as a type with a higher lifelong learning perception. and we found that there was no difference in the intention to participate in lifelong learning by all cluster Lastly, we found that participants who valued human resource development scored significantly higher on measures of cognition than those who did not value it. Based on these results, we advocates social change that encourages the cultivation of talent through lifelong learning programs that can positively affect one's unique identity, not just wife and mother, and provide opportunities for self-development.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
• /
• v.8 no.3
• /
• pp.47-64
• /
• 2004

This study compared full-time housewives' propensity for TV home shopping addiction by different socioeconomic, psychological, and purchase-related characteristics. And it identified the factors that influenced full-time housewives' TV home shopping addiction. The data were obtained from a questionnaire completed by full-time housewives (n=225) lived in Seoul and were analyzed by t-tests, ANOVA, and a multiple regression analysis. The findings of this study were as follows: First, full-time housewives' propensity for TV home shopping addiction was higher in the relatively old aged group. Those who graduated from graduate schools had lower scores in the scale of TV shopping addiction. Also, middle income group showed higher propensity for addictive buying. Second, the propensity for TV home shopping addiction was higher among those who had low self-esteem, who had higher level of empty self Also, those who had experienced material compensations as a child showed higher propensity for addictive purchase. Third, the propensity for addictive buying in TV home shopping was higher among those who had higher propensity for materialism, who took a serious view of markers or friends. Those who abuse their credit cards were more likely to have TV home shopping addiction.