This study was intended to examine the effects of perceived social support and coping strategies on the adolescent's depression and runaway impulsion. The subjects for this study were 630 students attending middle schools and high schools in Taegu city. The subjects were asked to respond to social support scale, coping strategies scale, depression inventory, and runaway impulsion inventory. The results indicated that first the perceived social support and the coping strategies all influences on significantly depression and runaway impulsion. Second, perceived social support and coping strategies have a main effects and an interactive effects on depression. That is, adolescent's depression be influenced by both variable, but more influenced by social support than coping strategies. And a depression of the group with lower perception of social support than other groups indicate the highest score when they use negative coping strategy. Third, perceived social support and coping strategies have a main effect and an interactive effects on runaway impulsion. That is, adolescent's runaway impulsion be influenced by both variable, but more influenced by coping strategies than social support. And a runaway impulsion of the group with negative coping strategy than other strategies indicate the highest difference between the levels of perception of social support.
This study examined the effect and the factors of the live concert on the consumer's change of liking for the pop singers. Live concert increased the consumer's change of liking for the pop singers and the main factor that increases the change of liking was the singer's sincerity to the concert. Also, consumer's involvement with the singers negatively correlated with the change of liking. From now on, the research into the pop culture has been limited to the description of the status quo. However, through the psychological point of view, this article accessed to the pop culture more positively.
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among energy consumption behavior and its relevant variables. More specifically, this study attempted to examine the validity of existing theoretical model by collecting empirical data and identifying path model based on the data. Subjects in this study were 236 residents in apartment complexes who lived in Seoul and KyungGi province in Korea. By administering a set of questionnaires, 14 constructs related to energy consumption behavior were measured and the relationships among the constructs were analyzed. The results revealed that the goodness of fit of the model proposed in this study based on the existing literature was acceptable but it was modified so that the model could have a better goodness of fit. As a result, the modified model was found to have a better goodness of fit(GFI=.98, RMR=.04). More specifically, 'environmental attitude' significantly predicted 'environmental knowledge'. And 'environmental concern' had a direct effect on 'behavioral intention' and 'actual consumption behavior' Especially, 'internal locus of control' and 'personal responsibility', as personality factors, had both direct and indirect effect on 'actual consumption behavior'. On the other hand, the relationships between 'behavioral intention' and 'actual consumption behavior' which was proposed in the existing literature was not demonstrated in this study. In sum, the causal relationships between energy consumption behavior and its relevant variables were examined and the relationships demonstrated in this study should be a basis for the future studies and practical considerations for energy preservation.
This study examines psychological, behavioral, and relational characteristics associated with school violence, focusing specifically on the victims, bullies, and non-participants of aggression. In the first part of this paper, the author outlines a theoretical and conceptual framework for understanding school violence and a review of the relevant literature. In the second part of this paper, an empirical study was conducted with a total of 854 students, who completed a survey questionnaire (primary school N=221, junior high school N=205, preparatory high school N=213, vocational high school N=212, no response N=3). The questionnaire included Relationship with Parents (Rohner's Warmth and Hostility scale), Relationship with Teachers (Rohner's Warmth and Hostility scale), and Relationship with Friends (Warmth and Exclusion scale). Psychological characteristics were assessed by Self-Efficacy and Moral Disengagement scales developed by Albert Bandura. For behavioral measures, experience as a victim or perpetrator of school violence, experience of punishment, delinquent behavior, and academic grade were obtained. Background information that included sex, socio-economic status, and friend's grade were obtained. Within the sample, a total of 239 students were identified as bullies, 191 as victims, and 415 were identified as non-participants of school violence. The results indicated that the bullies perceived their parents and teacher to be more hostile and friends to be more exclusionary when compared to the other groups. They also scored higher on moral disengagement and delinquent behavior. Correlational analysis indicated that engagement in school violence was positively correlated with delinquent behavior, moral disengagement, perceived hostility from teachers, and perceived exclusion from friends.
The purpose of this study is to examine the attribution and psychological characteristics of Korean drivers' who have violated in parking situation. A total of 123 adult drivers from Seoul and Kyonggi province participated in this study. The present authors developed an open-ended and structured questionnaire in order to investigate the causal factors, the behavioral and cognitive attitudes toward parking violations. The results reveal the following rationale for incurring parking violations. First, the problem of parking structure is found to be the basic assumption for incurring parking violations. For example, the limited parking space allows the drivers to violate in parking situations. Second, the violators' psychological characteristics are described in terms of self-centered and self-justification. More specifically, self-centered is described as those drivers' who have the tendency to act and behave in favor of themselves. In addition, the respondents have justified their violated behaviors since the outcome is disadvantageous for the drivers. Furthermore, the violators' are found to possess a permissive attitude toward parking violators'.
The purpose of this study was, based on the examination of the general public's stereotype toward social stigmatized group, to consider the degree and effect of stereotypes for social stigmatized groups, from the perspective of both the lay person and the stigmatizers. The data were collected from 352 university students, 255 lay person, 22 crippled, 16 prostitutes. In this study, an attempt was made to examine one's subjective social distance toward members of diverse stigmatized social groups. The social distance scale consisted of interpersonal physical distance and interpersonal social distance. The results indicated that drug addicts, prostitutes, ex-convicts, among people included in this study as stigmatized individuals were least acceptable. This study examined subject's preferences in two different dimensions: visibility and controllability. The result shows that subject most hate people who belong nonvisible and controllable stigmatized types. This suggests that subjects most hate people in stigmatized group who are responsible for their stigmas. But prostitutes are found to be different in recognizing the sense of social distance. The responses show that they regard alcoholics, visual and listening disabled, and mentally disabled as less close than the other socially stigmatized groups. This suggests that there are different in self defence mechanism for self-respect and social comparison process between lay person and people with social stigma.