Objective. The study was conducted to test the potential moderating effect of affective responsiveness on the relationship between Hwa-byung state, Hwa-byung trait, and life satisfaction. Methods. 67 responses were collected from family caregivers of patients diagnosed with gastric cancer at the Samsung Medical Center, South Korea. Results. The current findings explain the statistical significance of the impact of Hwa-byung state on caregivers’ life satisfaction. Moreover, affective responsiveness of family functioning showed an interaction effect on the relationship between Hwa-byung state and life satisfaction. Conclusions. The result implies that providing psychoeducation and psycho-social interventions, such as family therapy, should be taken into account to promote life satisfaction of caregivers.
This study was conducted to verify the mediating effect of should expectation of child’s success in the relationship between mother’s child-based self-worth and psychological control. For model verification, this study conducted a survey of 323 middle-aged mothers living in Busan by using such measures as child-based self-worth, should expectation of child’s success, and psychological control. As a result of analyzing the structural equation model with the AMOS 26.0 program, the direct effect of child-based self-worth on psychological control was significant. As a result of verifying the mediating effect of should expectation of child’s success, the indirect effect of should expectation of child’s success in the relationship between mother’s child-based self-worth and psychological control was statistically significant. This study is significant in that it confirmed the role of parent for child’s success in the process of inducing the psychological control by the parent. Based on the findings, this study provided the limitations of this study and implications for further researches in discussion section.
The purpose of this study was to examine each model that postulates the mediating effects of appreciation and positive affect, or regret and negative affect on the relation between 5 types of Zimbardo’s time perspectives and subjective satisfaction in middle-aged women. A total of 260 women in 40-50s completed a series of questionnaires including Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory(ZTPI), Satisfaction with the Life Scale(SWLS), revised Korean version of Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scale(PANAS), Appreciation Scale, and overall regret of life. The result of verifying each model was that different mediating variables depending on the types of time perspective had effects on subjective satisfaction. For Past-Positive, Present-Hedonistic and Future time perspectives, “appreciation”, “positive affect” or “appreciation and positive affect” had mediating effects on subjective satisfaction. However, for Past-Negative and Present-Fatalistic time perspectives, “regret” had mediating effects on subjective satisfaction. The findings of this study that the relation between time perspectives and subjective satisfaction is mediated by appreciation, regret, and affect can provide a direction for counseling of middle-aged women.
Sexual self-determination refers to the right to freely decide one's sexual life and not to be illegally violated. The purpose of this preliminary study was to develop a measure to evaluate the ability to sexual self-determination in physically and mentally immature adolescents and adults and vulnerable individuals with intellectual or mental disabilities. In particular, it was intended to develop a women's tool that can be more appropriately utilized for women. For this purpose, based on theoretical considerations and symposiums, sexual self-determination was defined as the individual's sexual knowledge, sexual consciousness and attitude, sexual self-assertion, situational perception and coping ability. Preliminary items were constructed by verifying content validity and facial validity. Subjects were 940 middle and high school female student, the model fit was confirmed through exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. As a result, self-reporting questionnaire confirmed sexual knowledge(13 items), sexual consciousness and attitude(12 items), sexual self-assertiveness(10 items), and 5 scenarios (20 items, situational judgement test) to identify an individual's perception of the situation and ability to deal with the situation in specific sexual situations. As a result of construct validity test, each scale is good or acceptable fit. It is a structure that can respond to self-report and scenario questions simultaneously, which makes it possible to evaluate sexual self-determination ability in a multi-dimensional scale. Based on these findings, implications and suggestions for future research were discussed.