• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.55-66
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• 2000

The purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between Sex Role Identity, Clothing Involvement, and Clothing Satisfaction, among high school students, and the difference of Sex Role Identity, Clothing Involvement, and Clothing Satisfaction according to demographic variables. The questionaire survey was used toward 555 high school students in seoul region during October, 1998. SAS package program were used to analyze the gatherd data. Frequency, Percentage. Factor Analysis, Duncan test, Correlation Analysis and so on. The conclusion based on the results are as follows: 1. With the analyses of Sex Role Identity, Clothing Involvement, and Clothing Satisfaction, we divided the polarized Sex Role Identity into four factors : androgynous, masculine, feminine and undifferentited type. Four factors are considered to decide Clothing Involvement: fashion, interesting pleasure, symbolism, and utility perceived risk. 2. There are significant differences in Sex Role Identity, Clothing Involvement, and Clothing Satisfaction according to demographic variables. 3. The analysis of correlations among Sex Role Identity, Clothing Involvement and Clothing Satisfaction showed that there are significant among them.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.167-181
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• 1996

The purpose of this study was to predict the stability of the future marriage by understanding the values of marriage, child and sex role among pre-parents. For this purpose, the values of marriage, child and sex roles were compared between male (N = 340) and female (N = 363) university students, Tajeon. The data were analyzed by statistical methods, such as mean, standard deviation, t-Test, F-Test, Multiple-Regression and Duncan Multiple Range Test. The results of this study were as follows ; 1) There were significant differences between male and female students in the values of marriage, child and sex role. 2) The most important demographical variable influencing to the values of marriage, child and sex role was sex. 3) With reagard to the collections between the values of marriage and the positive values of child were negative. But the correlations between the values of marriage and the preference for a son were positive. The correlations between the preference for a son and the values of sex role were also positive. With reagard to the correlations between the values of marriage and the values of sex roles were positive.

• Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.389-403
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of sexual education on sex knowledge and attitude in elementary school students. Method: Questionnaire data were collected from 4 elementary schools located in Y-gu, Seoul. Final participants included 512 older school-age children. Results: There were significant differences in the degree of sex knowledge (t=-28.35, p<.001) and attitude (t=-18.44, p<.001) between the pretest and the post-test. The degree of sex knowledge changed significantly according to grade, sex, and experience with sex-related questions, and the degree of sex attitude changed significantly according to grade and sex. There was a significant correlation in the degree of change between sex knowledge and attitude (r=.28, p<.001). Conclusion: In this study, sex education for elementary school students effectively changed sex knowledge and attitude. Sex education is recommended elementary school students as well as adolescents in order to encourage responsibility in desirable sex behavior.

• Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.80-90
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• 2020

Purpose: Sex education should be given priority to address dating violence. Comprehensive sex education has been developed based on a nonviolent communication model between couples for the smooth resolution of problems with the opposite sex. The purpose of this study was to develop and apply Comprehensive Sex Education for unmarried couples in their 20s-30s and to examine the effects on sex communication, problem-solving communication, and relationship competence. Methods: This study developed a total of six web-based sex education sessions. A comprehensive sex education program combined with nonviolent communication between couples was developed based on the UNESCO Sex Education Guidelines. A pre- and post-equivalence control design was used to provide moderation-based sex education to compare the effects on gender communication, communication dissatisfaction, and relationship development. Results: We developed a comprehensive sex education program for couples that took three minutes per episode, on a web-based basis. Sex communication, problem-solving communication, and love relationship competence showed significant pre- and post-test differences between the experimental and control groups. Conclusion: The program of this study is an attempt to introduce Korea to comprehensive sex education, which has already been shown to be effective through numerous verification processes abroad and will provide assistance in forming future relationships between lovers.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.131-142
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to collect fundamental data for sex education by investigating the actual conditions of sex education, concerns about sex, knowledge of sex and consciousness about sex. The subjects were 212 middle school girls and 219 high school girls in Ggyeong Nam. The results were as follows 1. There was no significant difference between middle school girls in knowledge of sex. 2. The most frequently experienced problem concering other sex was about dating and the many consultants were friends. 3. The stimulation of sexual desire was brought by film$.$TV$.$VTR, and advertisement, and sex information was acquired from friends or magazines in both schools students. 4. The reason of high school students for needing sex education was to solve moral problems and the reason of middle school students was to solve the anxiety in adolescence. 5. The students wanted their sex educator to be the expert in the field of sex education, home economist and nurse teacher, in order. 6. The contents of sex education desired by students were； physiological differences of a man and woman, etiquette and matter with other sex, a sexual problem of teenager and pregnancy$.$delivery$.$child care.

• Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.27-36
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• 2005

Purpose: This study was a descriptive research to compare the teaching status of sex education and to examine differences in understanding teaching capability for sex education between school health educators and teachers working in elementary schools. Methods: A total of 307 subjects participated in the research including 182 school health educators and 125 teachers who gave sex education in elementary schools in Busan, Korea. Data were collected using a structured self-administered questionnaire and analyzed with frequency, t-test and $\chi^2$-test using SPSS WIN (version 10.0). Results: This study found that the school health educators carried out sex education more than the teachers, and perceived a higher level of teaching capability for sex education than the teachers when they were given four areas of sex education contents: physical and psychological development; sex and health; sex, culture and ethics; and understanding of personal relationships. In addition, a larger number of school health educators perceived that they were more qualified and more highly recognized as sex educators than the teachers. Conclusions: The results suggest that the school health educators must be more active as sex educators and that sex education should be adopted as a regular course and the school hours for sex education must be secured.

• The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.63-70
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• 2004

This study was performed to identify the relationships between parents' nurturing behavior and preschoolers' creativity. The differences of parents' behavior and children's creativity by children's sex were also analyzed. The subjects were one hundred and four children(54 boys and 50 girls) and their mothers. Parents' nurturing behavior was assessed by a nurturing behavior questionnaire administered to the mothers, preschoolers' creativity was rated by the author through observation of the children's responses. The reliability of observation was calculated from 10 among the 104 children. The reliability coefficient was .96. The results were as follows: First, there were significant differences in parents' behavior according to the child's sex. Girls' parents showed more affective and achievement oriented attitude compared to the boys' parents. Second, there were also significant differences in .children's creativity according to sex. Girls' originality and flexibility were higher than boys, however, significant differences between girls and boys in fluency and imagination were not found. Third, parents' nurturing behavior and children's creativity were strongly related to each other. Children's imaginations were strongly related to the mothers' behavior. Children's originality and flexibility were also significantly related to their parents' behavior, but children's fluency did not show relations with their parents' behavior.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.91-101
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• 1998

Anthropometric characteristics and considerations of sex differences are essential for the correct design of ergonomic work spaces. This paper is concerned with longitudinal study on the physical growth in the Korean youth. Five hundred and fourty subjects were selected from third year students of high schools, and their records on physical examination during the last twelve years were surveyed by longitudinal method. This study investigated the anthropometric characteristics of physical structure and the shape of physical growth for boys and girls. The result showed that there were significant sex differences in the pattern of physical growth in height.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.7-11
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• 1997

Anthropometric characteristics and considerations of sex differences anr essential for te correct design of ergonomic work spaces. This paper is concerned with longitudinal study on the physical growth in the Korean youth. Seven hundred thirty-seven subjects were selected from third year students of high schools, and their records on physical examination during the last twelve years were surveyed by longitudinal method. This study investigated the anthropometric characteristics of physical structure and the shape of physical growth for boys and girls. The result showed that there were significant sex differences in the pattern of physical growth.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.339-348
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• 1992

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the parental authority and the parental child-rearing behavior. The subjects of this study were 380 children from an elementary school in SEOUL. Statistical analysis of the data was by MANOVA, the simutaneous confidence interval. The results were as follows : 1) There were sex differences on children's perception of parental authority. 2) There was no differences between the sex on children's perception of parental child-rearing behavior. 3) There were relationships on children's perception of parental authority and parental child-rearing behavior.