The purpose of the present study is to explore the effect of emotion, restrained eating and body shape and weight related private self-focused attention on eating motive and eating behavior. For this purpose, in study 1, the effect of restrained eating, bady shape and weight related private self-focused attention on eating motives were treated. As results, the important factors in explaining the positive emotion induced eating motive were restrained eating and body shape and weight related self-focused attention. In study 2, emotion, restrained eating, and body shape body weight related private self-focused attention on eating behaviors were examined experimentally. As results, the eating behavior by emotion, restrained eating and body shape and weight related self-focused attention interaction model was tested. Just main effect by emotion was significant. Therefore this study suggest that emotion play an important role in eating motives and eating behaviors.
Body dissatisfaction, weight concerns, and restrained eating which are well-known risk factors for eating disorders are more prevalent among girls. Many researchers have agreed that mother has an important role in accounts of the daughter's eating problems. This study was to examine how maternal modelling and concern with girl's weight related with risk factors for eating disorders. Participants were 480 5th and 6th grade of elementary school girls and their mothers. The result showed both maternal modelling and concern with girl's weight were significantly correlated with girl's risk factors for eating disorders and the most powerful variable to predict every rick factors of girl's was consistently the perception of concern of girl's and the mother's weight concern was the next. Implications and limitations of this study were discusse
This study examined the differences in health behavior, type A behavior patterns, coping styles, physical symptoms between Korean Adventists and non-Adventists. The participants were 346 college students (129 Adventists and 217 non-Adventists) and 335 adults over 30 years old (158 Adventists and 177 non-Adventists). The instruments utilized in the present study were the Framingham Tape A Behavior Pattern Scale, AUDIT(Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test), the Multidimensional Coping Scale, and Chon's Physical Symptom Questionnaire. Results indicated that Adventists' dietary styles were significantly different from non-Adventists' dietary styles, and Adventists consumed less alcoholic beverage and cigarette than non-Adventists did. Although Adventist's coping styles were different from non-Adventist's coping styles, there were no differences in level of type A behavior pattern and reported physical symptoms between those two groups. A forward stepwise regression analysis revealed that type A behavior patterns accounted for most variance of physical symptoms. Results of this study were discussed with antecedent studies on Adventist's health in United States and other countries.
It was assumed that, self-disclosure and distraction about the stressful life event would affect positively subjective well-being, health perception, and physical health, and that rumination, avoidance, suppression about the stressful life event would affect negatively criteria variables. Based upon the above assumption, following hypotheses were derived and examined through a survey research: (1) The main and interaction effects of rumination, avoidance, and self-disclosure on subject well-being, health perception, and physical health would be significant, respectively. (2) Among rumination, avoidance, suppression, distraction, and self-disclosure, finding the significant main factors affecting criteria variables. (3) According to the level of importance and stress of the stressful event, the above predictors would affect differently criteria variables. The participants of this research were 1,021 college students from five regional areas in Korea. Subjective well-being, health perception, physical symptoms, and physical illness were also measured as criteria variables. The results of this research supported fully or partially the above hypothesis. Of importance, self-disclosure of the stressful life event affected positively subjective well-being when the level of rumination was low. This findings imply that the positive effect of self-disclosure is not consistent to the general situation. Futhermore, the effect of rumination on criteria variables was widely supported among the predictors. Finally, the implications of this study and the suggestions for future studies were discussed.
Meaning in life is considered as one of the key elements required for well being. In this study, a translated version of Meaning in Life scale originally developed by Steger, Frazier, Oishi & Kaler(2004) was applied in an effort to investigate its psychometric properties. In study 1, the item analysis, factor analysis, reliability and validity are analyzed for 328 university students, whereas in study 2 & 3 concurrent, and incremental validity of the scale are investigated. The Korean version of the meaning in life questionnaire, in a similar way as the original version, displays a stable factor structure and high internal consistency, showing good concurrent and incremental validity. Also, its brief format and ability to measure the search for meaning suggest its sound applicability for the well-being study.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the current prevalence of pathological gambling in the general population of South Korea. The Korean version of pathological gambling screen measures(KNODS, KMAGS, and KSOGS) were administered to 2,867 South Korea residents using various sampling methods. In this result, it was found that 1.4% of the population were identified as pathological gamblers through KMAGS which is the most conservative measure while the KNODS identified 2.6% and the KSOGS identified 4.4% of the population as pathological gamblers in the general sample (N=908). In the gambler sample (N=424), the KMAGS identified 29.0% and the KNODS identified 38.0% of the samples as pathological gamblers. Also KNODS identified 6.1% of the sample as pathological gamblers in the internet sample (N=834). Finally, in the telephone interview sample (N=701), the KMAGS-SF identified 1.3% of the sample as pathological gamblers. When we consider that risk of overestimation of pathological gambler due to a false-positive in KSOGS and KSOGS don't fully reflecting diagnosis criteria of DSM-IV, prevalence from 1.3% to 2.6% seems to be appropriate as estimated of prevalence of pathological gambling in the general population of South Korea. The degree of concordance amongst the measures, consideration for future studies and practical aspects are discussed.