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The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between cultural variables, socio-psychological variables and happiness, and to examine how cultural variables and socio-psychological variables influenced on the happiness of Chinese university students in Korea. The subjects were 169 Chinese university students in Seoul city, Kyeongsang-Do and Jeolla-Do, in Korea. This study has been conducted descriptive analysis, Pearson correlation and stepwise regression using PASW 18.0 program. The result of this study showed that the mean score of Chinese students’ cultural shock and social isolation were appeared rather higher than other variables’ in acculturative stress. And the mean score of family relationship was appeared highest in happiness. The mean score of social support was appeared rather higher than other variables’. There was a significant negative correlation of happiness and acculturative stress including worries about studying, but there was a significant positive correlation between happiness, Korean language proficiency, self-esteem, social support and positive attitude to life. This study showed that social support, self-esteem, Korean proficiency of Chinese student influenced significantly on their happiness. Therefore, the conclusion of this study is that improved Korean language proficiency, self-esteem and social support for Chinese students is necessary to raise their happiness and better adaptation to university life and culture in Korea.

The purpose of this study were as to identified the differentiation of career attitude, career preparation behaviors and the differences in career skills variables by gender and school on free-semester course introduces types. Data was collected from 820 middle school students visited in youth career center in Seoul. Method for statistical was carried out by frequency, percentile and t- test analysis. In summary, the findings were as follows. First, Youth participation between free learning semester and regular course was significantly different on the career attitude, certainty and readiness. But according to the gender, the male students were getting a very important impact on confidence and career decisions, and female students were receiving a significant impact on the readiness and independence of career. Second, Youth career preparation and career independence level of experienced with in youth career experience center were well formed. However, the programs and education to improve the career decision and career certainty will be provided. Third, Young people showed a strong independent and voluntary attitude in career choice. So, youth career experience center should provide opportunities for professional and various career people.

This is a study of the experience that adolescents who faced adoption dissolution had. Theoretically, this study tried to look into the essential structure of their experience after adoption dissolution, and practically, it tried to establish the evidentiary material for welfare practice intervention to help them out in terms of psychological, mental and social recovery. To do that, this researcher conducted in-depth interview with three participants, which was analyzed by phenomenological methodology of Van-Manen(1990). The analysis result is presented as follows:Participants have lived with a great deal of psychological pain after adoption dissolution, but tried to find a new possible opportunity. According to the data analysis, there were such feelings as a sense of hunger for family, a sense like a bolt out of the blue sky, a pain like a cutting blood vein, a hunger for family, a sense like being locked in a dark and damp valley, a sense of working out the equation of life, and a sense of flapping ceaselessly to fly high in life.

Students with disabilities are more vulnerable to school violence, but there has been few research on school violence involving this population. The purpose of this study is to investigate the current status of school violence involving students with disabilities and related contextual variables in order to propose the directions for prevention and intervention of the violence. Twelve special education teachers participated in this qualitative study and in-depth individual interviews were used to collect data. Five themes emerged as a result of qualitative analyses: (1) backgrounds, (2) detection and phases, (3) resolution procedures, (4) the impacts of the violence incidents, and (5) dilemmas. Finally, the implications of the results for practices and policy and the directions for future research were discussed.

The main purpose of the study was to examine smartphone addiction level according to gender and grade and school adjustment(academic achievement, peer relationship, teacher relationship, school life) based on smartphone addiction level, gender, and grade. The subjects were 560(279 male, 281 female) students in 1st grade middle schools and 2nd grade high schools at M city in Jeonnam province. They completed Smartphone Addiction Questionnaire, and School Adjustment Questionnaire. The results were as follows: First, female students’ smartphone addiction was higher than male students’ and there was no significant difference in smartphone addiction between middle school students and high school students. Second, smartphone addiction had negative effects on school adjustment. Gender had significant effects on peer relationship and school life while grade had significant effects on teacher relationship. Interaction effect between smartphone addiction and gender had significant influence on academic achievement, peer relationship, and school life whereas interaction effect between smartphone addiction and grade had significant influence on peer relationship and school life. Limitations of the current findings as well as the suggestions for future study were also included.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of self-esteem and depression on the academic achievement and school maladjustment mediated by mobile phone dependency. Data were obtained from the Korean Child-Youth Panel Survey(KCYPS). Structural equation modeling was employed for statistical analyses. On the results of this study, self-esteem has not significant effect on the mobile phone dependency, whereas depression showed significantly positive influence on the mobile phone dependency. Mobile phone dependency showed significantly negative influence on the academic achievement and significantly positive influence on the school maladjustment. Also, self-esteem showed significantly positive influence on the academic achievement and significantly negative influence on the school maladjustment. But depression has not significant effect on the academic achievement and school maladjustment. On the analysis results of mediation effect, mobile phone dependency was significantly mediated the effects of depression on the academic achievement and school maladjustment. Based on these results, we suggested the method to increase the academic achievement and decrease school maladjustment.

The purpose of this study is to examine the essence of taking special education, a type of disciplinary measure given to adolescents in crisis, based on Giorgi’s study method and lay the foundation for establishing holistic understanding and proper counseling intervention strategies for those subject to special education. According to the results of analyzing the experience of adolescents in crisis about special education, the coercive and unilateral process that they are submitted to the disciplinary measure of special education induces resistance and opposition in adolescents in crisis about special education, which eventually reduces the effects of education. About the programs of special education, both individual counseling and family counseling allow them to look into their growth process and internal problems and decide to make changes, and after taking special education, they tend to try to practice what they have learned from the education. However, those having no changes in their family or peer relationship or school life tend to face limitations in their personal efforts, and due to the recurrence of their impulsivity and difficulty in relationship, many of them end up being submitted to another disciplinary measure after all. Based on the findings, this study suggests you to explain them about the disciplinary measure of special education and seek their agreement, individualize and diversify programs appropriately to change their problematic behavior, and extend the education for their family and teachers, too, as ways to enhance the effects of special education.

The major purpose of this study was to explore the effects of parents' over-involvement and friendship quality on early adolescents’ social anxiety. The 561 subjects of the study were selected from 5th grade, 6th grade of elementary school in Busan. For data analysis, Cronbach α, t-test, two-way ANOVA analysis were used. The results were as follows: First, girls showed higher interpersonal anxiety, performance anxiety, friend support, friend intimacy, whereas boys showed higher friend competition. Second, the interaction effects of parents’ over-involvement and friend support, friend competition on interpersonal anxiety were significant whereas the interaction effects of parents’ over-involvement and friend intimacy on performance anxiety were significant for the boys. The interaction effects of parents’ over-involvement and friend conflict on interpersonal anxiety and performance anxiety were significant for the girls. These results suggest the importance of decreasing parents’ over-involvement, friendship conflict, competition and improving friendship support, intimacy in reducing social anxiety.

The main purpose of the study was to examine the relations between leisure participation of adolescent, stress relief and school adjustment. In addition, mediating effects of stress relief between adolescents’ leisure participation and school adjustment were examined. The subjects were 420(220 male, 200 female) students in 2nd grade middle schools at M city in Jeonnam province. They completed Questionnaire of Leisure Participation, Stree Relief Questionnaire, and School Adjustment Questionnaire. Statistical analyses of data were frequency, mean, standard deviation, t-test, Pearson Correlation, and multiple Regression. Sobel test were used to examine the significance of mediating effects. Cronbach's alpha was computed for the reliability of the scales. SPSSWIN 21.0 was used for data analysis. The results were as follows: First, male adolescents showed higher sport and recreation participation than female adolescents while female adolescents showed higher appreciation participation than male adolescents. Male adolescents showed higher stress relief than female adolescents. Also male adolescents showed higher scores in academic achievement, teacher relationship and school life than female adolescents. Second, sport participation was positively correlated to stress relief and peer relationship, cultural activity participation was positively correlated to stress relief, academic achievement, and peer relationship, and recreation participation was negatively correlated to stress relief and academic achievement for male adolescents. However sport participation was positively correlated to school life and cultural activity participation was positively correlated to teacher relationship for female adolescents. Third, for male adolescents, stress relief had partial mediating effects between sport participation and peer relationship, and full mediating effects between cultural activity participation and academic achievement, and between cultural activity participation and peer relationship. For femlae adolescents, stress relief had full mediating effects between cultural activity participation and school life.

The purpose of this study was to learn about students' perception on international education, international competencies and learning outcomes in higher education. In order to understand the status quo of students' perception, a survey was conducted with 989 valid responses from students in 9 universities. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-tests and ANOVA. It was revealed that students' perception on the importance of international education was high, students desired competent foreign faculty and students in universities. International education had a positive impact on the growth of international competences and learning outcomes in higher education. Students, however, indicated that international courses for stimulating high levels of higher order thinking were not sufficient. The students' perceptions on international education varied according to experience of living abroad and the level of English proficiency. The results support the idea that the quality of international education needs to be improved in most universities. Furthermore, various program and teaching methods are needed in international education program.

This study analyzed the impact of active stress coping of adolescents experienced loss on posttraumatic growth and the mediating effects of deliberate rumination. Adolescents between the ages of 19 and 24 are the subjects of research and this study surveyed college students. Of the collected questionnaires, data of 171 students that reports they have any experience of losing parents or loved ones and at the time the subjective severity was higher than normal is analyzed. In the data analysis, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, T-test, multiple regression analysis and Sobel test is examined using SPSS 20.0. The results are as follows. First, the effect of active stress coping on posttraumatic growth are significant. Second, the effect of active stress coping on deliberate rumination are significant. Third, in the effect of active stress coping on posttraumatic growth, partial mediating effect of deliberate rumination is statistically significant. Finally, After analyzing the result, this study discuss practical way to deal with posttraumatic growth of adolescents experienced loss.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between smartphone addiction of university students and their depression, anxiety and aggression, as well as to examine the moderating effect of self-control on these relationships. In this study, 456 university students in Daegu were surveyed about their smartphone addiction, depression, anxiety, aggression and self-control level. The results were as followings. First, the general level of smartphone addiction of the university students was very serious, specifically the high results in the sub-factors of problems-tolerance, difficulty in everyday life, feelings of withdrawal, and virtual world orientation. Regarding gender differences, the level of smartphone addiction for female students was more serious than that of male students. University students with reported school life satisfaction in the 'middle' or 'low' groups were more likely to have higher levels of smartphone addiction than those students in the 'high' group. Second, there were significant positive correlations between smartphone addiction among university students and their level of depression, anxiety and aggression. While self-control exhibited no moderating effect over the relationship of smartphone addiction with depression or anxiety, there was a moderating effect over the relationship of smartphone addiction with aggression. This result confirms that self-control capability has a moderating effect to reduce the relationship of smartphone addiction with aggression.

This thesis is for inspecting various elements to research youth facility made from computerized virtual space technology. Planning virtual facility to promote balanced growth of young people, to prevent internet addiction, and to support various activity for the youth. It is important to research requisites or precautions must be considered to be a fully satisfied virtual youth facility for the Korean society and also to prevent to make another virtual maze like other commercial internet game or internet web sites. In making practical virtual space, There are researched options for easy choose or another alternatives which can help improving the quality in designing virtual space which is much obvious and clear to use for the young. This thesis is the succeeder form the thesis, ‘A Research on Virtualization of Youth Facility - Making and Possibility Research of Virtual Consulting·Hands-on Space. 2014. -’. It is decided to categorize and research the difference between multiple dimension which can be easily used for young people and to research the portal in the different shades of meaning on the network space and computerized virtual space.

A purpose of this research is to establish a university culture in the surrounding area of the university and suggestions on how to activate the region. Campus town is a region with a spatial symbolism that can experience the college culture, it is an important element that make up the cultural landscape and urban image of the community, it plays a leading role of developing various sectors including knowledge, information, art, culture, economy, industries with the university together. Also it completes the many features that cannot be met by the facilities at universities around the region. In order that the area around the main entrance of Pai Chai University allows to perform the role of these characters, not only being met the basic residential and commercial capabilities required, the introduction of outdoor spaces such as educational facilities, cultural facilities and park rally through policy and institutional support, therefore the university and regional co-exist and present also suggest a method and alternatives that can form a community with the local residents and can grow into.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the actual living conditions such as spatial use and needs of one person households by college students for unit modular housing design with box type units of one-room and Gosiwon. A field study and focus group interview were used to analyze and classify the general characteristics, the spatial use and preference for unit modular housing design. The results were as follows: firstly, the housing units types such as one-room and Gosiwon were divided into 6 categories; bedroom+bath+open kitchen type, bedroom+bath+divided kitchen+balcony, bedroom+bath, bedroom, bedroom+bath+open kitchen+balcony, bedroom+bath+balcony in order. Secondly, the major problems of housing units were shortage of space and closet, the cooking smells of indoors by unit planning of bedroom+open kitchen types and bed ventilation system without balcony, etc. Thirdly, it was found that the bedroom+bath+divided kitchen type was highly preferred in unit housing types for one person household. Based on the result, this study will provide a desirable direction for the unit modular design as affordable housing to college students with resonable space planning and living conditions.

This study begins to the question of the structural utility that could be observed in the space aimed for Infants. The drawing of them is organized in the simple way show the adaptive structure based on their general minds. The principle of simplicity provides the useful basis, as the physical space to pursue efficiency. In this study, The simplicity was analyzed the characteristics of the vertical -horizontal, the circle and the oblique structure, as the adaptive structure related to the visual perception of them and was organized by leveling and sharpening which was categorized into the dominant attribute of it. In short, The vertical -horizontal structure resulted in array based on the regular interval and reflectional symmetry by the two dimension. The circle structure resulted in radial symmetry by the three dimension and honeycomb structure. The oblique structure resulted in logarithmic spirals and self similarity transformations. The types are likely to compose the experience depending on the transcendental structure of early childhood and their cognitive architecture including the high suitability for the space.

Recently, the government has announced a variety of housing policies in order to reduce local housing costs and improve residential environment as well as to stabilize residences. The Hangbok Joint Dormitory out of them is off-campus dormitory to supply housing to university students at low costs by reducing acquisition cost expenses while using public lands as its site. This study was the first to target off-campus joint dormitory located in outskirt of the city and there are not enough preceding research data or cases to reference. Thus this study carried out a preference survey targeting students who have lived in dormitory. Through analysis on the needs of user, this study was able to extracts the elements which could be applied to the present proposal. The main contents of the questionnaire are about location, living space, service facilities, outdoor space, study space, lifestyle, space use pattern and so on. Looking at the details of the plan were made as a result as follows: unit design based on the balance between private and sharable space, spatial hierarchy at community spaces, isolated private open space, common use space at typical floor plan, diverse and qualitative outdoor space, etc.

This study aims at analysing visual characteristics of reading room and other spaces in children's library by analysing Visibility Graph Analysis which is the method to evaluate organization of space and visual relationship of space based on isovist area. Additionally, It aims to find out the spatial configuration by Investigation of user's behavior which is based on statistics by mapping spatial data. The following facts are the results of the study. Children's libraries have been studied revealed low openness on the lounge which is the extended part of the building, whereas extended breast-feeding room is not used actively because it revealed high openness. In D library, the reading room for infants has low Visual Clustering Coefficient and has not worked efficiently, because of the position of the room and interior arrangement of furniture. In that respect, to improve the situation the reading room's connection and placement of wall for the furniture can be suggested. Also, the breast-feeding room can be placed in reading room for infants. Practicing in the lecture rooms invigorated in these days, so active corridor space where has high Visual Integration & low Visual Clustering Coefficient and the reading room where shows unclosed spatial characteristic in Visual Connectivity should be separated for visitor's effective using in children's library. For the effective using, between users who is the purpose of reading and users who is participated in a library program, it should be avoided that the existing rooms are being used in another functional rooms.

After the establishment of the Mater Plan for Architectural Policy in 2010, many discussions and studies have been conducted on built environment education. As a result, various programs of built environment education have been developed and provided for students from the private sectors. In the national school curriculum, however, built environment education in Korea has been minimal, offered only in certain subjects as architectural and environmental issues. Even though there is a textbook on built environment education for elementary schools issued in 2013, no case of the selection of the textbook in schools has been found by the researcher. The purpose of this study is to investigate the means to integrate built environment education into national school curriculum. For the purpose, the researcher reviews overseas cases in which built environment education programs have been implemented as part of the national school curriculum. From the review, the study discusses systematic and continuous measures to integrate built environment education in the current national school curriculum and suggests the program’s composition of the built environment education in the National Common Core Curriculum with Selective-Centered Curriculum, and Creative-Experiential Activities.

Adolescents of each region in Chungbuk mostly hold around 15%~20% of regional population. Although the number of their population is small, however they spent the longest time in the region, and they are the major users of various public facilities of the region. In order to activate their participation in program actively and positively, it is necessary to let the adolescents participate in the regional cultural activity program, regional social development program, civic life program, service activity program, personal development program, exchange program with other regional adolescents, etc. which adolescents can determine and act at the eye-level of them from the planning stage, and initiatively operate and participate therein. Youth facility can reduce economic burden of space security through being connected with regional educational facilities and cultural facilities and be prepared as the new youth facility to maximize efficiency by activating on-line information system and network, and prepare for the 21st century's globalization and informationization, also, can be utilized as a place of exchange among the generations by recreating as the facility for the regional citizens, not only for the adolescents.

Physical Education Special Purpose Secondary School for secondary school is equipped with desirable qualities cultivate physical fitness and motor skills and social skills through physical activity and health and to enhance their skills and qualities needed for a vibrant life. Physical activity is one of the most critical factors to be associated with distinct physical education curriculum other. In athletics has a characteristic that physical activity is utilized as a tool of the essence of education and training. Future Education from 2011 to 2014 before being promoted is a new subject areas applicable to the 2009 revised curriculum 'in a semester course completion can reduce students' creative abilities through the efficient and creative activity area of learning experiences through the kidneys and character education contains the main content. The 21st century is not the type of resources, such as existing industrial society in which the driving force of social development of knowledge, skills, and resources of an intangible that is created in the human nature of the power of information will be the driving force for social development. So one day change so differently. To develop the knowledge, skills, values that can actively respond to changes in the information and attitudes, changes in training for human resources with a behavior that can be requested. Therefore, the students majoring sport, as well as to adapt to the information age and the function of such training will raise the capacity to get ready for the upcoming future will be to enable the planned facilities under the concept of school facilities compounding.