• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.30 no.11 s.158
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• pp.1538-1549
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was 1) to identify gender differences in appearance management behavior and influencing variables(media involvement, body satisfaction and self-esteem), 2) the effects of influencing variables on appearance management behavior, and 3) to analyze the relationships among influencing variables. The data were collected ken 458 fifth and sixth grade girls and boys of five elementary schools ill Seoul, Korea via self-administered questionnaires, and were analyzed by factor analysis, t-test, and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study were as follows: Regarding the gender differences in research variables, preteen girls showed more interest in clothing/hair style management, weight management, TV involvement and celebrity imitation than preteen boys. Girls showed lower level of satisfaction than boys. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to identify the effects of media involvement, body satisfaction and self-esteem on appearance management behavior. For boy group, clothing/hair style interest was influenced by celebrity imitation, and weight management by TV involvement, body satisfaction and school self-esteem, and height management by celebrity management and school self-esteem. For girl group, clothing/hair style management was influenced by celebrity imitation and general self-esteem, and weight management by body satisfaction, general self-esteem, celebrity imitation and TV involvement, and height management by school self-esteem, TV involvement, time spent watching TV and general self-esteem. From the results of analyzing relationships among influencing variables, it was found that media involvement influenced self-esteem; TV involvement and celebrity imitation influenced school self-esteem; body satisfaction had the effect on all three sub dimensions of self-esteem in boy group. For female group, TV involvement had the effect on body satisfaction, and celebrity imitation on general self-esteem, the family self-esteem and school self-esteem, and body satisfaction on all three sub dimensions of self-esteem.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.61-76
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• 2011

Limited research has investigated the satisfaction of patients with cancer. This study was performed to explore patients' satisfaction and the related factors. The data were collected by telephone survey for the participants who were beneficiaries on the national financial aid program for cancer patients between January and October in 2009. Student's t-tests and analysis of variance were performed first to determine if the mean satisfaction score differed by the characteristics of study objects, followed by stepwise multiple regression analyses to examine the factors affecting satisfaction. When comparing the relating factors with patients' satisfaction according to the sociodemographic characteristics, the male, old-aged, higher educated, lower cancer stage, lung cancer group showed a significantly higher level of recognition for satisfaction. A public health center, better public relations, recognized more helpful, don't have expectation, put a person to expense, and don't feel pressured for medical cost groups were showed a higher level of recognition for satisfaction. The result of the multiple regression analysis, short waiting time, well known program policy, recognized helping of policy and had the financial burden had significantly influence on the satisfaction of patients with cancer.

• Quality Improvement in Health Care
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.148-163
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• 2002

Background : The personnel of emergency department have been under tremendous pressure to manage unexpected emergency situations and excited patients. And interpersonal conflict has existed always, because emergency department was consisted of various personnel of their own specialty. The patient's satisfaction has to come from the personnel's satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to evaluate emergency department personnel's job satisfaction and its related factors and to improve quality of emergency medical service Methods : A self-administered questionnaire survey to the emergency department personnel was conducted between September 1 and October 31, 2001. The response rate was 90.2%. Using SAS program (Version 6.12), the collected data was analyzed by frequency, ANOVA, multiple comparison, Pearson correlation procedure, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Result : The analysis of related factors of job satisfaction showed high score of interpersonal interaction (3.246), professional prestige (3.095), autonomy (2.916), task requirements (2.701), organizational requirements (2.444), and pay (1.953) in order of item mean. Professional prestige (0.498), task requirements (0.464), and organizational requirements (0.408) were highly positive correlated with overall level of job satisfaction. The factors influencing the job satisfaction were professional prestige and task requirements which explaining efficacy were 37.6% and 32.2% respectively. The total explaining efficacy was 33.6%. Conclusion : It was found out that emergency department personnel's job satisfaction can be raised by promoting professional prestige and task requirements. The personnel of emergency department have to be satisfied through their job, and the administration of the hospital has to pay more attention to their employees' job satisfaction and it related factors.

• Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.353-363
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• 2016

Purpose: This study aims to assess clinical practice satisfaction among dental technology students and to identify the factors that may influence their career decision levels. In doing so, the present study provides preliminary data as to ways to improve clinical practice satisfaction levels and career decision levels that would be optimal for one's competence. Methods: he survey was conducted on dental technology students. The collected data was analyzed by the statistical program SPSS 21.0. The results were analyzed by reliability, frequency, multiple-way ANOVA, correlation, multiple regression. To test for significance on each item, p<0.05 has been decided as a standard. Results: Analysis results indicate that the factors influencing clinical practice satisfaction of dental technology students include school year, satisfaction of major, area of clinical practice, and assigned department for clinical practice, while the factors that influence career decision levels include satisfaction of major and clinical practice satisfaction. Conclusion: Results of present study suggest that in order to improve clinical practice satisfaction among dental technology students and thereby career decision levels, one needs to focus on satisfaction of major and quality of clinical practice. Such efforts will enable a more active and effective approach toward clinical practice for the dental technology students, and with appropriate understanding and assessment of the experience, they will be better equipped to make a career decision where they can live up to their competence.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.155-163
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• 2021

This study was conducted to identify factors that affect the life satisfaction of college students. The subjects of this study were 191 students from three universities located in one area, and the data collection used self-reported questionnaires. Data analysis was performed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Independent T-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson Correlation Coefficient, and Multiple Regression Analysis. The results of the study showed that significant factors affecting the life satisfaction of the subjects were self-esteem and school life satisfaction, and the explanatory power according to the influence factors was 42.3%. The research results suggest that improving college students' self-esteem and school life satisfaction can help them improve their life satisfaction. Therefore, it is necessary to consider self-esteem and school life satisfaction when developing educational programs to improve the life satisfaction of college students in the future.

• 재활복지
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.119-144
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the multiple mediating effect of mental health, which is composed of depression, disability acceptance, social-economic position, life satisfaction, on the relationship between disability discrimination and job satisfaction against wage earners with disabilities. A data of 992 wage earners with disabilities which derived from the fourth wave panel data provided at Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled were utilized. SPSS 20.0 and SPSS Indirect macro was conducted, and the results were verified by SPSS 20.0 and SPSS Indirect macro. The results were as follows : (1) Depression influenced between disability discrimination and job satisfaction directly or indirectly. (2) Disability acceptance mediated between disability discrimination and job satisfaction. (3) Social-economic position mediated between disability discrimination and job satisfaction. (4) Life satisfaction mediated between disability discrimination and job satisfaction. Based on the results, Based on the results, it suggested some methods of ascent of job satisfaction for wage earners with disabilities.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.468-476
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• 2011

This research is to investigate the effects of exercise adherence due to the leisure satisfaction of marine sports participants. In this paper, we will provide a basic database to vitalize marine sports. In order to analyze the result, we conducted a survey targeting 326 participants from 2010 Busan metropolitan city marine sports. The following results are obtained after analyze the data using SPSS/PC+ Win. 15.0 with a correlation analysis and a multiple regression analysis. First, all of the sub-factors from leisure satisfaction and exercise adherence show a positive correlation after analyzing the relationship between the leisure satisfaction and the exercise adherence of marine sports participants. Second, after analyzing the effects of exercise adherence according to the leisure satisfaction of marine sports participants, the result showed that the egoistic satisfaction influences the exercise capacity. Therefore, the data shows that the psychological satisfaction affects exercise environment, exercise companion, exercise habits and exercise attention.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the service satisfaction of users using community service, and to suggest directions for continuous growth and high service of social service providers in the future. This study was conducted on G metropolitan cities. T-test and one-way ANOVA were conducted for the comparison of 476 users of social service users by gender, income level, and age. In addition, multiple regression analysis was conducted to identify factors affecting user satisfaction. The statistical package analyzed was SPSS 21.0. As a result of the study, the application process, the satisfaction of the service period, and the satisfaction of the service provider were statistically significant at the income level. In addition, in the age group satisfaction, the application procedure, the satisfaction of the service period, the satisfaction of the service frequency, and the satisfaction of the workforce were statistically significant.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.124-129
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to investigate if the three selected constructs that constitutes physical environments, service quality, and importance of menu affect college student satisfaction and the number of visit to coffee shop, respectively. Frequency, reliability, factor, and multiple regression analysis were employed for the study. Most of the created variables related to physical environments, service quality, and importance of menu were found to be significant relationships with overall satisfaction and the number of visit to coffee shop. Limitations of the study and assignments for future research were discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.279-292
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• 1992

The purpose of this study was to test system model for family resource management. The data were collected by means of a questionnaire distributed to the sample of 650 wives living in Seoul and Daejeon. The data were analyzed using mean, multiple regression. The result were shown as follows: 1) There were significant differences in three measure of satisfaction ―economic concern, financial satisfaction, general life satisfaction― according to contextual variables, perceived resource adequacy, planning style. 2) Planning style measures provided a unique contribution to the explanation of wives' satisfaction when contextual variables and perceived resource adequacy were controlled, but the degree of contribution was weak.