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메뉴This study is to find the difference between impulsivity, daily hassles, and stress coping strategies on the high group and the low group of compulsive buying, and then to see the features on high compulsive buying group. To find the differences between the two groups, questionnaires were given out to 20-30 years old women, specially women`s university who lives in Seoul and Gyung-Gi do. The result was first, the high group of compulsive buying had higher impulsivity than the low group. Second, the high group of compulsive buying had higher daily hassles than the low group. Finally, the high group of a compulsive buying were significantly high in confrontive coping and distancing, seeking emotional support, and accepting responsibility. However it showed low rate on the planful problem solving and positive reappraisal. These result showed that high compulsive buying people have not only state factors as daily hassles but also internal factors as impulsivity and coping strategies. The result of this study is that understanding and psychological interventions is needed on high compulsive buying people. And this study provides basic data on an effective intervention.
This study was conducted to investigate the adjustment issues of North Korea women defectors living in South Korea. Eleven North Korean defectors who have been married or was married at the time of study were interviewed on the issues of adjustment difficulties living in South Korea. To analyze the date from interview, the theme analysis method was used. Results indicated that North Korean women defectors had difficulties of educating their children, supporting their parents and infants, receiving vocational training, working, and maintaining health. Also, they often had conflicts stemmed from changes in the gender role and status, bigamy and cohabitation, marriage with South Korean men. Besides, they seemed to suffer from the psychological pain as the results of trauma during the exile from North Korea, South Korea entrance, inability to support their family members being left in North Korea, anxiety with the status revelation, and the sense of withdrawal in South Korea. Suggestions were discussed to support policies and programs for North Korean women defectors
A survey of 524 housewives, residents of Seoul, was carried out to investigate the effects of economic difficulties, economic copying behavior, and communication on their mental health. Life satisfaction, depression, anxiety, and family mental health were the indicators of the mental health in the study. Overall, the respondents reported higher levels of life satisfaction and family mental health than the midpoint on the scale. However, they showed a little depression and anxiety. Regression analysis revealed that economic status, husband's health, judgment of family economic difficulties, communication with husband, and loss of own employment were signigicant predictors of life satisfaction. Furthermore, family economic status, husband's employment loss, husband's health, communication with husband, and perception of family economic crisis were signigicant predictors of depression. For anxiety, loss of their own employment, judgment of family economic difficulties, and husband's health were significant predictors. Finally, communication with children, judgment of family economic difficulties, communication with husband, husband's health, and planned expenditure were significant predictors of family mental health. In conclusion, the study showed that economic difficulties, economic copying behavior, and communication were important factors on mental health of housewives.
The purpose of this study is to understand the life situation of the female North Korean refugees in China and to prepare the further interventions for them by investigating the stress copying styles of them. The participants of this study is 100 female North Korean refugees in China and data was collected in three districts of the northeast in China. The results of this study were as follows. The female North Korean refugees in China got the high scores than other female South Korean groups in all 4 copying styles. The results of analysis of differences in copying styles according to their demographical characters show that age, education, final resettlement place, economic level, time of escape from North Korea, experiences of arrest, extradition to North Korea, or human traffics variables are related with the differences in problem solving style. Education, final resettlement place, or intention about family members' escape variables are related with the differences in social support seeking style. The differences in emotion-reducing style are related with age, final resettlement place, or opinion about the Chinese-Korean. And the women who had experiences of arrest, extradition to North Korea, or human traffics showed the differences in wish style as well as in problem solving style. Finally the restrictions and suggestions for further studies are presented.
All humans have its Want. Women also have its Want: They are the opportuniy and resource for life, namely 2W. Oedipus and Electra who are the Greek tragic Selvs who struggled for its achievement for the 2W. Curvelinear rather Linear Model for the Self development is suggested. The women in the 21C may not follow the Electra Curve, but what is concluded is that women must earn its 2W with its own labour and merits, and not by the aid from any other-oriented figures.
This paper deals with a hypothesis that a recent trend on the part of Korean women to avoid marriage and child-bearing is due to the way how Korean women perceive women's role in Korean family. Many Korean women, as they are more educated, tend to reject many traditional women's stereotypic roles and try to participate in economic fields and other public sectors. Yet in family, the most private community, most women are expected and to fulfill stereotypic roles like house keeping and child rearing, and many women are limited only to these roles. Women's stereotypic roles to care other family members more than herself and to live relation-centered life affected women negatively in the way how women feel toward marriage, job performance and most of all self esteem. This network of women experiences enforce women to behave as they do in avoiding marriage and child-bearing. This paper concludes that there is an urgent need to loosen women's stereotypic roles and to empower women to live an autonomous life with human dignity.