The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of self-reported Acceptance for Differences(AD) and perception of partners’ AD on the quality of couples’ relationship, and explored perceptual accuracy and bias in the perception of partners’ AD in a sample of 200 couples. The actor effects as well as partner effects of self-reported AD, as well as the perception of partners’ AD on couple relationship quality, were found among men and women. The actor effect was greater than the partner effect. Additionally, the Truth and Bias (T&B) model was administered to examine the associations between self-reported AD, as well as the perception of partners’ AD. Results indicate a perceptual similarity bias, as well as a perceptual accuracy in men and women. The gender difference in perceptual accuracy was insignificant, and males showed greater bias than females, in perceptual similarity bias. Negative directional bias was found only in women. Finally, the implications and limitations of the study discussed.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of self-esteem and psychological well-being following a mindfulness meditation group counseling program for middle-aged women. To this end, we set as a research question how the mindfulness meditation group counseling program affects the self-esteem and psychological well-being of middle-aged women. Out of 20 middle-aged women, 10 in the experimental group and 10 in the control group were organized, and a mindfulness meditation group counseling program was conducted in the experimental group for a total of 8 sessions. Before treatment with the mindfulness meditation group counseling program, the Mann-Whitney U test was used to confirm the homogeneity of self-esteem and psychological well-being between the experimental group and the control group. It was found that there was a statistically significant difference in the improvement of self-esteem and psychological well-being of the mindfulness meditation group counseling program. Therefore, it was suggested that the mindfulness meditation group counseling program is effective in enhancing self-esteem and psychological well-being of middle-aged women. Based on the purpose and results of this study, the implications of this study and the direction of future research were discussed.
Pornography use is one of the most common types of sexual behavior. In Korea, where information and communication technology has become common, a particularly high rate of pornography use has been reported. However, there is a general lack of research on this topic, anda Korean measure to assess underlying psychosocial factors of pornography use has not been developed. Thus, we translated and validated the Pornography Use Motivation Scale (PUMS; Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Bella et al., 2021), into Korean, and examined how the pornography use motivation relates to the frequency of pornography use and the problematic pornography use. Recruitment and data collection were conducted anonymously online. Participants consisted of 769 adults (384 men and 385 women), and the average age was 44.18 (SD=13.62). A series of procedures were implemented including a review of the translated scale by an expert committee as well as a pretest of the translated scale to obtain respondents’ feedback. Results of the confirmatory factor analysis indicated that an 8-factor (sexual pleasure, sexual curiosity, fantasy, boredom avoidance, lack of sexual satisfaction, emotional distraction/suppression, stress reduction, and self-exploration) model demonstrated adequate fit to the current data. The internal consistency coefficient of total scale and subscales were good (≥.86), and test-retest reliability (ICC) was .65 supporting temporal stability. Pornography use motivation measured by K-PUMS showed a significant and positive correlation with the frequency of pornography use and the problematic pornography use. Results of structural equation modeling showed that only the sub-factor of sexual pleasure predicts the frequency of pornography use, and none of the sub-factors predicts the problematic pornography use. Furthermore, results of the latent profile analysis indicated that participants were classified into heterogeneous groups only by the overall level of pornography use motivation, and heterogeneity according to differences between high and low levels of sub-factors was not observed. Lastly, theoretical and practical implications as well as the limitations of this study were discussed.