Pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting are events that can have a fundamental and significant impact on a woman's life. Since the abortion conviction was unconstitutional in April 2019, as demand and interest in the introduction of pregnancy conflict counseling increased, considerations of advanced domestic and overseas cases are being actively conducted. In order to apply this to the domestic situation, it is necessary to grasp the current status of domestic pregnancy and childbirth counseling programs and to expand or supplement them. Therefore, in this study, we conducted Focus Group Interview (FGI) of 29 counselors who are counseling for pregnancy and pregnancy termination at public and private institutions in Korea, and Colaizzi's phenomenological research methods was used to understand the experience of counselors and women. As a result, it was found that the current pregnancy and childbirth counseling practitioners commonly experience “difficulty in continuing cultivation of expertise”, “difficulty in conflicting values”, and “difficulty in connection and cooperation with other institutions”. Women who use the counseling system seem to have experienced “difficulty in making decisions and applying them”, “blind spots within the system”, “request for professional help to ensure anonymity”, and “lack of legal and professional help”. In view of this, it is necessary to establish a national integrated center that will support the ongoing pregnancy counseling system, assist with institutional intervention and linkage, and develop and operate systematic and practical education methods. This research can be used as a basis for preparing a new system.
This study aims to investigate the motivation of using dating apps and psychological factors affecting them, focusing on young people in their 20s(n=319), who are known as the main users of dating apps. For this purpose, this study examined the actual state of using dating apps and the motivations for using them, and examined the effects of psychological factors such as basic psychological needs, and sexual attitudes on the motivation to use the apps. The study found that about 25% of all respondents continue to use dating apps. As for the motivations to use dating apps, the sub-factors such as ‘love’, ‘self-esteem improvement’, ‘sex’ and ‘fun’ were extracted. As a result of hierarchical regression analysis, psychological factors predicting ‘love’ for dating app use motivation were basic psychological desire satisfaction/disapproval, hedonic sexual attitude and sexual responsibility, and they showed significant explanation. And psychological factors predicting ‘self-esteem improvement’ for dating app use motivation were basic psychological desire satisfaction and sexual responsibility that showed significant explanation. The variables that showed significant explanatory amount on the ‘sex’ motivation for using dating apps were basic psychological desire satisfaction/disapproval, permissive sexual attitude and sexual responsibility. The ‘fun’ motivation for using dating apps was found to have a significant effect on basic psychological needs satisfaction/disapproval. Based on the results of this study, implications for the use of dating apps in their 20s and suggestions for follow-up studies were discussed.
Aiming at understanding the paths that lead juveniles re-detained and exploring intervention plans for preventing the re-detained, this study verifies the gender-specific effects of interpersonal relationships, personality, and institutional misconduct in a juvenile detention center on re-detained through structural equations. To conduct the study, information of PAI-A, ostracism experiences, childhood abuse experiences, crimes and demographic statistics of 140 people(male adolescents: 70, female adolescents: 70) living in juveniles Academic was collected. To summarize the main findings, first, personality traits were classified by gender for juveniles in their first detainment and re-detained. In the case of male juveniles, the personality traits that predict re-detained were classified as externalizing(irritability and egocentricity) factors while the female juveniles' cases were classified as a mixture of internalization and externalizing(activity level, psychotic experiences, negative relationships). Second, as a result of looking into the effect of interpersonal relationships on personality traits and institutional misconduct in a juvenile detention center by gender, interpersonal relationships of male juveniles did not affect personality traits and institutional misconduct in a juvenile detention center, however, in case of female juveniles, interpersonal relationships had a significant effect on personality traits. Third, as a result of conducting a path analysis, the model suitability of male and female juveniles in detention centers was satisfactory, and it was confirmed that personality traits and institutional misconduct in a juvenile detention center were a significant pathway for re-detained to juvenile centers. However, as for the relational factor, only female juveniles showed a significant path. In particular, ostracism experiences had a significant effect on personality traits and indirect effect on re-detained to juvenile centers. These results confirmed that there were differences between genders in the case of re-detained to juvenile centers. And in particular, it showed that personality traits and institutional misconduct in a juvenile detention center are closely related factors to re-detained. Through this, I would like to emphasize the implications of providing necessary gender-specific treatment in juvenile centers and the importances of positive rehabilitation to the society for juveniles through restorative definition.
The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effects of the irrational beliefs on the relationship between college female students’ premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and menstrual Attitudes. In this study 251 female students in Daegu and Gyeongbuk have been surveyed, but out of the 251 participants, 3 were of extreme age in comparison to the other participants and two students’ answers were unreliable. After taking this into consideration the study was conducted by using a total of 246 participants. The results are as follows. First, significant positive correlation was identified between PMS experience, menstrual attitudes, and irrational beliefs. Second, PMS experience of the subjects significantly affected their menstrual attitudes. Among the subfactors of PMS experience, behavior change, concentration, autonomic nerve system response accounted for 22.4%, therefore becoming the significant predictive factor. Third, irrational beliefs turned out to have a significant mediator effect in the relationship between PMS and menstrual attitudes of the subjects. This study shows that out of all the factors, which influence the PMS experience, irrational beliefs is the most significant factor. Finally, discussion of the results’ implications and proposal of further investigations are described.