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The purpose of this study is to find out the tendency of the new generation’s consumer roles and green consumption behavior for the environmental conservation. This study is also to reveal some fundamental information for an environmental education program which si able to support the new generation consumers to participate voluntarily in an environmental activity. The 500 subjects of this study were selected from the new generation consumers who wre residing in Seoul, 1998. The 414 data wre finally analyzed by Mean, t-Test, ANOVA, and Multiple Regression Analysis. The major findings were as follows: 1) the purchasing roles of the new generation consumer tended to be higher than the citizen participation’s roles. The variables with the higher score for the new generation’s green consumption behavior were in the rank of the isolation of environmental waste, the purchasing behavior of green product, the recycling environmental resource, and citizen’s participating roles in environmental activity. 2) the new generation’s consumer roles showed a significant differences, according to variables for the environmental value, environmental education, and participation of the environmental and societal activity 3) the green consumption behavior for the new generation consumers showed a significant differences, according to sex, environmental value, participation of the environmental and societal activity. 4) the most influential variables for the green consumption behavior of the new generation consumers were in the rank of consumer roles, educational values, and the participation of the environmental activity. As we see above, the consumer education for the new generations needs to focus on consumer’s roles that let them participate voluntarily in environmental and societal activity, as well as practice positively to use green environmental products whenever they select some items in the markets.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between parents’attitude and their actual performance in home education and adolescent children’s acceptance, and to inquire the difference in relation to social-demographic variables with the subject of family with teenagers. The main results were as follows: 1) There were significant difference between father’s attitude and mothers in home education. And there were significant difference between father’s attitude and mothers according to variables in each area. 2) There were significant differences between father’s performance and mother’s in home education. 3) Adolescent children’s acceptance level was 3.26 (standard 5) and was average. there were significant differences in adolescent children’s acceptance level in accordance with parents’school careers, father’s job, child’s sex and school record. 4) There were relationships between parents’attitude and performance in home education when father’s attitude was confident attitude and situational attitude in education method, and when mother’s attitude was confident attitude. 5) There were relationships only when father’s attitude was confident attitude, and there were no relationships in other case. 6) There were relationships between parents’performance and adolescent children’s acceptance.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the influential degree of the family financial management ability and the financial satisfaction by objective and subjective variables, as focusing theoretical concept on the family financial management ability which will influence on the financial satisfaction. The major findings are an follows. (1) The average score of the family financial management ability of urban housewives is 3.49, that is relatively higher than those of the financial satisfaction was 2.76. (2) It showed that ability of family management ability of housewives influence on the financial satisfaction. The planning and achievable ability showed also same tendency. (3) The result of the analysis for the most influential variables for the financial satisfaction was the housewives’subjective variables.

The purpose of this study is to structure finance management education programme and to provide basic data orienting finance service system by means of analyzing the level of financial problem and its influential variables. The following is the result of this study: First, the level of financial problem perceived by housewife in urban areas is in the following order ; property which is perceived the least. Second, the level of financial problem perceived by housewife in urban areas is dependant on housewife age, husband education level, husband occupation, the degree of property, the degree of debts, tendency of fortune control, tendency of materialism, feeling of appropriate resource. It is especially noting that housewife in forties shows high level of financial of financial problem recognition than housewife in twenties does. This indicates needs for middle for middle-aged home management in which happens house moving to larger size, education of children, marriage of children, preparation for stabilization basis after children’s marriage, and shortage of surplus money. Third, variables which affect all sub-areas are family property sum, tendency of materialism, feeding of appropriate resources. The less family property sum, the stronger tendency of materialism, and the more perceive feeling of appropriate resources, the more perceive they financial problems.

The purpose of this study were to examine assets investment behavior of urban households and find the factors affecting it. The data were obtained from 442 households living in Seoul. The statistical techniques used for this study included descriptive statistecs, logistic regression, multiple regression. The major findings were as follows: First, The ownership of houehold assets were affected by age, education, total income, total income, total asset, the number of income source, income stability, the financial expectations, past financial experiences and the job of houehold head. Second, amount of household assets was affected by husband’s age, education, unearned income, total asset, income stability, the expectiation of future, the past financial experiences and the job of household head. Third, ratios of household assets were affected by age, education, unearned income, family size, the number of income source and the job of household head. The findings of this study can be used by financial counseling and planning practioners and education.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the positive effect of family leisure in human life. We adopted ecological-system approach, theory of structure to family life and analyzed meaning of leisure through the interdisplinary approaches. Family leisure has not only positive effect on home but also it’s subsystem. Consequently, family leisure as vital power of living contributes to the advancement of life quality.

This study aims to review the family life and its changing process in the early twenty’s century. It is explored through the editorial of the Maeil-Shinho during 1910∼1945. It is valuable work to explore of family life in the Maeil-Shinbo newspapers because it was continuously published from 1910 to 1945. The author attempted to study family life in five major such as food and nutrition, clothing, resource management, family, and child care. And of the articles food and nutrition parts ranks the highest order and clothing care was the second highest. In the early nineteenth century, many of articles were about to family life but decreased its amount by 1940. Of the editorials, most articles had dealt with the educational context in order to improve the quality of family life.

The major purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the extracurricular lesson expenses on the Burden of Household Expenditure. The data are collected from 537 housewives with a child aged 18(2nd grade in high school) in Seoul. The statistics used for the data analysis are frequency, percentage, crosstables, one way ANOVA, and multiple regression. The statistic softwear used for this study is SPSS. The Result on a base of empirical analyses follow: 1. Respondentg’s expenditure on extracurricular lesson fees is about 430,000 won per month, which is about 28% of the living cost. 2. There are four types of the methods preparing extracurricular lesson fees: ‘Frugal Type’, ‘Excess Type’, ‘Composit Type’, ‘Self-supportable Type’. 3. Region, the living cost, sex of children, net worth, and the mother’s education show statistically significant effect on the extracutticular lesson expenses. 4. The regression analyses incicate that Burden of Household Expenditure increased by 1.9 point according to 1% increase in expenditure on extracurridular lesson fees. The higher budget share of expenditure on extracurricular fees, the higher level of Burden of Household Expenditure.

This study investigated the participation of household labor of employed wives and husbands and it’s influential variables. The subjects of this study were 287 couples(employed wives and husbands) living in Seoul. The data were analyzed by various statistical methods such as Frequency, Percentile, Pearson’s Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis. The results of this research were as follows: 1. Wives spend on average of 7 hours and 23 minutes(per day), of 6 hours and 35 minutes(per weekday), of 12 hours and 7 minutes (per weekends) on household labor, whereas husbands spend on average of hours and 38 minutes(per day), of 2 hours and 11 minutes(per weekday), of 5 hours and 18 minutes(per weekends) on household labor. Wives performed most childcare, next, food of the household labors. Husbands performed most childcare, next housing of the household labors. 2. In wives’participation of household labor, the influencial variables were the number of child, wive’s age and wive’s education level. In husbands’participation of household labor, the influencial variables were the number of child, husband’s sex role attitude, wive’s age, and flexibility of wive’s work.

The purpose of this study was to verify working hypotheses of effective management proposed by Sharpe and Winter(1991). For this purpose Managerial Effectiveness Scale(MES) developed and investigated relation with family life satisfaction. MES was divided into four conditions, performance-condition, timing, high level, and middle range and was included twenty-five managerial elements. Conditions of MES were highly correlated one another. It was assumed that four conditions related to promote synergistic effectiveness of managerial actions. Also, MES was positively related with family life satisfaction. It was suggested that effective management actions should improve should improve satisfaction of family life in general, and so family needs and goals should actualize through effective managerial-processes.