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The purpose of this study is to explore the main psycho-social factors that affect the community spirit of youth and to find ways to improve the community spirit. The community spirit of youth was examined focusing on citizenship, participation, cooperation, and caring. As for the variables that affect community spirit, psychological variables such as resilience, self-esteem, and career decision self-efficacy, and social variables of parent-child communication were examined. The survey subjects were high school sophomore female students residing in K area, and statistical analysis was conducted on the collected questionnaire data of 225 students. As a result of the analysis, the level of community spirit of students was generally medium, and among the community spirit, citizenship showed the highest level. Among the variables used in this study, only parent-child communication variables were found to have a significant effect on community spirit. As a way to increase youth community spirit, the direction of content design for the development of a community spirit improvement program targeting parents was presented. The main contents of the community spirit improvement program for parents are: 1) Strengthening of parents' psychological capacity through self-understanding, 2) Strengthening of acceptance and support capacity through parents' understanding of their children, 3) Strengthening of communication capacity with children 4) Enhancing of Parents' community spirit was suggested. The community spirit improvement program targeting parents is considered to be an effective way to improve the community spirit of adolescent children, but such a parent education program has not been developed yet. The program contents for improving the community spirit for parents presented in this study are expected to be used as basic data for developing parent education programs in the future.

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of social disaster indirect trauma experience on suicidal behavior in order to understand the suicidal behavior of university students, and to analyze the parallel mediating effects of smartphone and alcohol addiction in the relationship. For this purpose, in this study, the questionnaire data of 540 university students belonging to a four-year university located in K city, Jeonbuk were used for the final analysis. As a result of the analysis, First, university students’ experience of indirect social disaster trauma had a significant effect on suicidal behavior. Second, it was found that smartphone addiction has a mediating effect on the path of social disaster indirect trauma experience to suicidal behavior. In other words, it was confirmed that the experience of social disaster indirect trauma not only directly increased the level of suicidal behavior, but also indirectly increased the experience of suicidal behavior by increasing the level of smartphone addiction problems. On the other hand, alcohol addiction did not mediate between the two variables. Based on the results of this study, the prevention of suicidal behavior of university students and the intervention plan in terms of practical and policy aspects were discussed.

The study examined the pathways from adolescents’ anxiety to happiness through relational aggression in adolescence and the differences according to gender in the relationship. The participants were 247 students(boys: 105, girls: 142). The data were analyzed with structural equation modeling and multiple group analysis. The results were summarized as follows: First, relationship aggression of adolescents full mediated the relation between anxiety and happiness. Second, the differences in gender in this study. Boy adolescents’ relational aggression does not mediate anxiety and happiness. Girl adolescents’ relational aggression seemed to full mediated the relationship anxiety and happiness. These results emphasized high levels of anxiety and relational aggression to improve adolescents’ happiness. These findings will be used as important basic knowledge for the development of various intervention programs for adolescents.

This paper aims to analyze the moderated mediating effect of job efficacy in the relation of youth workers' resilience and organizational health on burnout. The subjects of this study were 234 youth workers working in 81 youth activity facilities and youth institutions in Daegu and Gyeongbuk. The period of investigation is from June to September 2022. The results derived from this study are as follows. First, the higher the resilience of youth workers, the lower the burnout. Second, the higher the resilience of the youth workers, the higher the perceived organizational health of the youth workers. Third, it was found that organizational health played a mediating role in the effect of resilience of youth workers on burnout. Fourth, it was found that job efficacy played a moderating role in the effect of youth workers' perception of organizational health on burnout. Considering that organizational health and job efficacy act as important protective factors in preventing burnout of youth workers, in the future, smooth communication with in the organization and fostering a sense of community as well as youth workers' confidence and sense of challenge can be felt. Efforts such as assigning tasks are believed to be helpful in preventing youth workers from burnout.

Currently, according to the Basic Law on Youth, the installation standards, operating standards, and safety standards for youth facilities are stipulated. However, while the standards for the installation of youth facilities are defined in relative detail, the operating standards do not have specific operating guidelines. In particular, the safety standards are very insufficient, and the personnel who operate and manage the cultivation facilities must set and operate the safety standards themselves, and the specific methods and inspection items have not been established. In addition, the installation standards for adventure facilities and outdoor facilities are not mentioned at all, and similar regulations include the standards for the installation of playgrounds under the Housing Construction Promotion Act and the Urban Parks Act, and the standards for infant and child care facilities under the Child Welfare Act and the Infant and Infant Care Act. These standards and safety provisions lack specificity and professionalism and are only at a declarative level, and are fundamental to amusement facilities, and no specific safety standards have been established. On the other hand, in developed countries such as the United States, Europe, and Australia, in order to ensure the safety of young people, their own safety standards are established that apply to amusement equipment and outdoor facilities such as schools, parks, and public facilities, and facilities are installed and operated in accordance with these relevant regulations, and the design and construction of facilities is carried out taking into account the age group of each facility. Therefore, this study intends to present an overall, holistic framework for the adventure facilities that are currently installed in or may be introduced in the future. To this end, this study included not only the adventure facilities installed in the youth residency facilities, but also various amusement facilities and outdoor facilities in Korea.

The purpose of this study was to examine the dual mediating effect of difficulty in describing feeling and self-destructive behavior in the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and college students’ anxiety. The subjects were 296 college students. A correlation analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between measurement variables using SPSS 24.0. The dual mediating effect of difficulty in describing feeling and self-destructive behavior was identified using PROCESS macro 3.5 Model 6. The results were as follows: First, the direct effect of emotional abuse on college student’s anxiety was not significant. Second, difficulty in describing feeling and self-destructive behavior showed significant dual mediating effect in the relationship between emotional abuse and anxiety. These results indicate that interventions for emotional abuse, difficulty in describing feeling and self-destructive behavior are needed for college students suffering from anxiety due to childhood emotional abuse.

(Research Purpose) In 2017, Previous studies on the size and area of facilities related to youth activities were investigated, such as the total area, site area, and per capita area required for construction. Accordingly, based on the new data updated in 2022, this study aims to examine the changes in the status of youth training facilities nationwide after COVID 19, follow-up studies by region, public/private to obtain implications, and derive the latest data. (Research Method) Based on the status data of youth training facilities from 2017 to 22, the accommodation quota and area analysis were derived. The main indicators used were the total floor area, site area, and accommodation capacity in relation to building facilities. (Results of the study) 1. The youth training center increased by 0.31㎡ from 10.29㎡ to 10.60㎡ per non-accommodation capacity, and the site area decreased by 7.25㎡ from 42.23㎡ to 34.98㎡, 2. Youth culture houses increased by 1.36㎡ from 7.35㎡ to 8.71㎡ per non-accommodation capacity, and the site area decreased by 15.94 from 44.78㎡ to 28.84 ㎡, 3. The youth center -accomodation- increased 51.16㎡ from 15.40㎡ to 66.56㎡ per person, and 109.71㎡ from 189.60㎡ to 299.31㎡, 4. The floor area of Youth campsites decreased by 4.76㎡ from 9.98㎡ to 5.22㎡ per person, and The site area increased by 15.85㎡ from 133.27㎡ to 149.12㎡, 5. Youth hostels increased by 5.63㎡ from 14.24㎡ to 19.87㎡ per person, and the site area increased by 45.69㎡ from 47.49㎡ to 93.18, 6. The total floor area per person for specialized youth facilities increased slightly by 0.03㎡ from 9.36㎡ to 9.39㎡, and the site area decreased by 2.53㎡ from 82.34㎡ to 79.81㎡. (Conclusion) It is expected that the overall area per person in youth facilities will increase, and the comfort of youth's space use will increase. Although the number of outdoor activity places for teenagers has decreased significantly, the area per person provided by the facility has increased, which is expected to be positive in terms of the size of the activity space.