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The purpose of this study is to suggest the way to improve the life satisfaction of the aged in the institutional household by examing some of factors such as individual, social support and facility that influence their life satisfaction. In the view of statistical results, the level of their life satisfaction is influenced by individual, social support and facility related to factors. First, the level of the aged’s life satisfaction is high when the person has spouse who lives together, has many children, presumes oneself as in healthy and has high-satisfaction of religion. Second, the level of the aged’s life satisfaction is high when the person has good relationship with friends in institutional household and one’s children. And the person whose relative call her or him frequently and she or he is proud of one’s being in institutional household has high-satisfaction of one’s life. Third, the level of the aged’s life satisfaction is high when the person satisfies the quality of food-services and housing services. Finally, the results of in-depth interview show that the person who has financial power, a certain of hobby and one’s role has high-satisfaction of one’s life

The purpose of this study were to make a comparison with the lifestyle and level of family resources’perception between the adolescent and their parents. Data for this study were collected from 732 cases including the middle school students and their parents(302), the high school students and their parents(284) and the university student and their parents(146). The SPSS software program and statistics such as frequencies, paired t-test, factor analysis and Chronbach’s α were employed to analyze the data for this study. The major findings of this study were as follows: 1. The score of Identity is shown higher to the groups of the parents than the groups of the adolescent. 2. The group of adolescent have a tendency to lead the fashion and life the Western style, while on the other hand the group of their parent have a tendency to save and be responsible their life. 3. The score of family resources’perception is shown higher to the groups of the parents than the groups of the adolescent.

In this study, we compare and analysis the family rite consciousness and it’s actual conditions between yanbian university students who have lived in different culture and political system from Korean students. Total 645 Yanbian and Korean student’s data was collected in Jun 1998. Statistics methods, Cronbach’α, Frequency, Percentage, χ², t-test are used to analyse the data. The result are follows. First, in view of overall rite conditions, Korean students show more traditional tendency than Yanbian students. Second, in view of ritual process which is sub-domain of overall ritual consciousness Yanbian student keep more traditional attitude than Korean students. Third, Koran students’s score which presents the need of education of rite is higher than that of Yanbian students’s

The purpose of this research was to categorize the type of family financial well-being based on objective and subjective dimension. And this study was intended to explore the relations not only those types and the demographic characteristics but also those types and family subsystem; personal subsystem and managerial subsystem. The results of this study were as follows: 1. The type of family financial well-being were categorized as ‘Adequated type’, ‘Dissatisfying type’, ‘Satisfying type’, and ‘Unadequated type’. 2. The objective variables effect the family financial well-being rather then subjective variables. 3. The family cohesion, adjustment and communication pattern and intentional managing efforts increase the family financial well-being.

The Purpose of this study is to scrutinize the time structure and time use pattern of North Korean and to identify the differences of time use patterns between South and North Korean Societies. To carry out this Purpose in-depth interviews with ten people who escaped from North Korea after 1990 and empirical survey with 158 subjects were conducted. The findings are as follows. The characteristics of time life of North Korean are uniform time use pattern in tightly scheduled daily life and shortage of disposable time and constraint of free time due to job related labor, extra job activities including learning, meeting and evaluation, and labor mobilization. Women are faced with heavy burden of doing job and housework in the continuing patriarchal way of thinking and in the circumstances of poor housing environment. In North, Leisure time is constraint and leisure facilities are poor and the concept of leisure is totally different as that of South. North Korean think leisure as connecting with work and education and as public sphere, not private sphere. I this context leisure is considered as means for the strengthening of the communist society. Differences in the perception of time life through defectors are as follows. In South, there are plenty of leisure time and man can control his own time. Man spend his free time for various activities, especially for cultural activities such as sports, recreation, eating out with families and spend time till late in the outdoors. This study revealed differences in many aspects of time life between South and North Korean societies. These results will provide useful informations for the overcome of differences of cultural life of South and North Korean societies and accomplishment of the real integration of two societies.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influences of informazation on the structure of family life. This study adapted the theory of family life structure to analyze these influences. this theory viewed the components of family structure as ‘family culture’, ‘means for living’, ‘household management’, ‘family relations’, ‘time’, and ‘living space’. Related research works conducted in the several disciplines and the statistics were used, The informazation had great impacts on the structures of family life. Some impacts wre desirable but undesirable impacts were also found. Some recommendations were made improve the quality of family life in the society of informazation.

The purpose of this study is to understand what needs housewife volunteers want to be satisfied with and try to find the way to satisfy them, examining empirically their participation motivation and activity satisfaction. The major findings of the study were as follows: 1) the housewife volunteers’participation motivation was composed self-developmental, self-actualization, altruistic dimensions and the mean score of self-actualization was the highest. 2) the self-development motivation was proved significantly different in housewives’age, their last child’s age, religion. the altruistic motivation was proved significantly different in their religion. 3) the housewife volunteers’activity satisfaction was proved significantly different in the level of self-developmental motivation, self-actualization, and altruistic motivation. Namely, the higher the level of self-development motivation, self-actualization, and altruistic motivation was, the higher activity satisfaction was. 4) the variables that influence on housewife volunteers’activity satisfaction were family support, self-development motivation, self-actualization, job appropriateness.