The purpose of this study was to explore the relations among the meaning of life, social support, and resilience in mothers of childhood cancer patients. To do this, the survey was conducted on 102 mothers of childhood cancer patients in Seoul and Gyeongnam area through Make-A-Wish Korea and Korea Childhood Cancer Parents Association. T-test and ANOVA for analysis on average difference in the variables, Pearson correlation analysis between the variables, stepwise multiple hierarchial regression analysis for exploring the relative influences, and hierarchial regression analysis for testing the moderating effect in relations between the variables were conducted using SPSS win 21. The results of this study were as follows: first, there were differences in the meaning of life according to degree of mothers and chemotherapy duration and the differences in social support were significant according to degree of mothers and age of children. Also, there were differences in resilience according to degree of mothers, disease duration, and chemotherapy duration. Second, resilience was mostly accounted for by the meaning of life as the individual variable, followed by social support as the social variable and disease duration of common disease-related characteristics. Third, the relation between the meaning of life and resilience was moderated by social support. Based on the results, the implications and limitations of this study and the suggestions for future studies were discussed.
Despite the reality that many people are doing diet, conceptualization of what diet people think of diet is not yet realized. In this study, we aimed to clarify the conceptual structure of diet recognition by using concept mapping analysis for female college students who ever diet before. For this purpose, 15 female college students from Seoul were selected as participants and their ideas on diet were collected and then the contents were classified into 68 statements. Then, based on the statement data classified by the participants, multidimensional scaling analysis and hierarchical clustering analysis were performed. As a result, a conceptual diagram of 8 clusters according to two dimensions was derived. Each cluster is divided into three categories: 'experience of failure to control food during diet', 'personal diet method', 'desire to fit idealized body image', 'personal motivation and goal to perform diet', ' Emotions', 'various failures experienced during diet', 'interpersonal problems caused by diet', and 'concept and definition of diet'. In addition, the two dimensions that classify the 8 clusters are the 'psychological factor dimension - experiential behavior factor' dimension and 'ideal behavior dimension – failure of psychological and behavioral control' respectively. Based on the significance level of each participant 's statements, the most important group of participant' s concept was 'Diet concept and definition'. Finally, the limitations of this study and suggestions for future research are suggested.
Despite the reality that many people are doing diet, recognition of what diet was lack of understanding. In this study, we aimed to clarify the conceptual structure of diet recognition by using concept mapping analysis for female college students who ever diet before. For this purpose, 15 female college students in Seoul were participated to a group interview for concept mapping analysis asking about their meaning and experiences of diet behavior. 68 statements were extracted from the interview, and categorized into 8 clusters using multi dimensional scaling analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis. As a result, a conceptual diagram of 8 clusters according to two dimensions were derived. Eight clusters were 'experience of failure to control food during diet', 'personal diet method', 'desire to fit idealized body image', 'personal motivation and goal to perform diet', 'emotions', 'various failures experienced during diet', 'interpersonal problems caused by diet', and 'concept and definition of diet'. In addition, the two dimensions that classify the 8 clusters are the psychological factor dimension - experiential behavior factor dimension and ideal behavior dimension - failure of psychological and behavioral control dimension respectively. Based on the significance level of each participant's statements, the most important cluster of participant's concept was 'diet concept and definition'. Finally, the limitations of this study and suggestions for future research are suggested.
The purpose of this study was to examine whether perceived gender discrimination would be related to Hwa-byung and stability of self-esteem would moderate such a relationship. especially after controlling self-esteem. For this purpose, we administrated online survey in a sample of 240 women. The results of hierarchical regression analyses revealed that, in stage 1, self-esteem (covariate) was negatively related to Hwa-byung and, in stage 2, perceived gender discrimination was positively related to Hwa-byung while stability of self-esteem was negatively related to Hwa-byung. In addition, in stage 3, the interaction of perceived gender discrimination and stability of self-esteem was significant, which suggested that stability of self-esteem moderated the relationship between perceived gender discrimination and Hwa-byung. That is, the grater stability of self-esteem was, the effect of perceived gender discrimination on Hwa-byung decreased. Moreover, based on self-esteem and stability of self-esteem, we divided dataset into 4 groups and compared Hwa-byung scores among these groups. Low self-esteem and low stability of self-esteem group reported the highest Hwa-byung scores, followed by low self-esteem and high stability of self-esteem group, high self-esteem and low stability of self-esteem group, and high self-esteem and high stability of self-esteem group. By revealing that stability of self-esteem buffer the negative effect of gender perceived discrimination against Hwa-byung, this study highlights the importance of both self-esteem and stability of self-esteem.
Based on adult attachment theory and literature, the present study set the model representing interplay of childhood emotional abuse and dyadic adjustment of dating couples mediated by adult attachment and relatedness needs fulfillment and investigated the model by employing actor and partner interdependence model (APIM). Results of structural equation modeling (SEM) from data of 148 dating couples indicated the hypothesized model fit the data. First, results revealed childhood emotional abuse had actor effects on adult attachment for men; actor effect of attachment avoidance was significant on relatedness needs fulfillment and dyadic adjustment on the direct path. Second, results for women revealed that actor effect were presented on the direct path from childhood emotional abuse to adult attachment, from adult attachment to relatedness needs fulfillment, and from relatedness needs fulfillment to dyadic adjustment. Also, women’s attachment avoidance had partner effects on men’s relatedness needs fulfillment and dyadic adjustment. Third, the link between childhood emotional abuse and dyadic adjustment was fully mediated by attachment avoidance and relatedness needs fulfillment for men and women. Implications for future research and counseling practice were discussed.
The present study investigated the relationship between motives for dating violence perpetration and dating violence, according to focusing on the necessity of research on context for dating violence that suggested in previous studies. And gender differences were also investigated in the relationship between these two variables. For our purpose, in study Ⅰ, 317 male and female college students who had experience of dating violence were sampled and data were collected on the experience of dating violence, motives for dating violence perpetration, and the social desirability. Data were analyzed by hierarchical regression analysis. The results are as follows. First, Men's perpetration was mainly associated with motive of emotional, mental or physical state, while women's perpetration was only associated with motive of asserting power or authority. Second, gender differences were confirmed in the relationship between motives for dating violence perpetration and dating violence, suggesting that men and women could attack in different contexts. In study Ⅱ, mediation effect of perpetration motive of asserting power or authority was tested in relationship between child abuse experience and psychological dating violence perpetration of women with data of 107 female college students who had experience psychological dating violence. Fully mediation effect of perpetration motive of asserting power or authority between those two variables was confirmed. Based on the results of this study, it was discussed on the suggestions for interventions of psychological dating violence for women and further study, limitations of our research.
There has been an argument on psychopath's cognitive empathy for a long time. some researchers have said psychopaths are deficient in cognitive empathy, while others have suggested they have superior ability for cognitive empathy. Because the vast majority of psychopathy research have dealt with male forensic samples, little is known about gender difference of psychopathy and female psychopathy. Therefore, this study attempts to figure out psychopaths' cognitive empathy ability and characteristic gender difference which they have on it. In order to do so, college students are asked to fill out the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale. From the participants, a group of 46 people with psychopathic tendency and normal control of 54 people are selected. Both groups' empathic accuracies are examined with the examination paradigm of Ickes and then compared. The results were as follows, First, the normal control group demonstrated higher empathic accuracy than the psychopathic tendency group did. Second, the female group also demonstrated higher empathic accuracy than the male group did. Third, significant interaction effects between psychopathic tendency and gender were identified. Finally, on the basis of the above results, the implications and limitations of this research were discussed and future research direction were proposed.
The purpose of the study was to examine the role of decentering as a moderator in the relationship between marital conflict and anger by applying Actor－Partner Interdependence Model (APIM). A total of 291 married couples ranged from age 20s and 60s participated in the study and completed a questionnaire packet including variables related to martial conflict, anger, and decentering. The results indicated that there was a direct effect of the decentering on anger for both wife and husband but no parter effect. In addition, the decentering played as a moderator between marital conflict and anger for both husband and wife. For the partner effect, only wife’s decentering moderated on the relationship between husband’s marital conflict and wife’s anger. The implications and limitations for the study were discussed.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effects of self-acceptance and loneliness on the relationship between socially prescribed perfectionism and depression of housewives with children in infancy and early childhood.. The participants of the study consisted of 356 mothers. The results are as follows: First, correlation analyses confirmed that socially prescribed perfectionism had a positive correlation with loneliness and depression, and a negative correlation with self-acceptance. Second, path analysis showed that socially prescribed perfectionism indirectly affected depression through self-acceptance and loneliness and directly affected depression, which supported a double mediation effect hypothesis. Third, the research model with a double mediation was compared with comparative model which has full mediations of self-acceptance and loneliness, the latter with better goodness-of-fit. Structural equation modeling analyses supported the hypothesized partial double mediation effects of self-acceptance and loneliness. Implications, limitations and suggestions of the findings were discussed.