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The purpose of this study is to classify the subjects according to their lifestyles and analyze the art consumption behavior of them that are classified. Data were obtained form 390 people over 20 years of age. Factor analysis was used for examining dimensions of lifestyles and cluster analysis for classifying the type of lifestyles. This study found three different types of lifestyles, i.e., the conspicuous consumption-oriented type, the economical future-oriented type and the progressive leisure-oriented type. There are significant differences in art consumption behavior as well as socio-economic characteristics of the subjects among three types of lifestyles.

The purpose of this study is to develop the life scale of the middle aged homemakers. The life scale are composed of spouse relation 8 items, child education relation 7 items, home economy relation 4 items, homework relation 3 items, selfish health relation 6 items, parent relation 3 items, and interest and social activity relation 4 items. The reliability coefficient of the development scale was Cronbach'α =.83 and the correlations of each demesne was high. For the better future life in this study, the middle aged homemakers are needed the improvement of conjugal relations, the child education, the health, the interest, and the enlargement of social relations. This life scale can help to evaluate their middle age, and to the planning of energetic healthful future, and useful to understanding characteristic and the developmental task of middle aged homemakers.

The purpose of this study is to examine the current and the future leisure activities of middle aged housewife living in the urban apartment. The data for the analysis are collected by the structured questionnaires. The data for 220 housewive who are forty's living in the urban apartment are analyzed using the descriptive statistics and the regression analysis. This study has resulted following major findings. 1) The current leisure activity participated the most frequently by the housewive is the family-oriented activity. The religious-sociable activity is found to be the least frequently participated by the housewive. 2) The leisure activity which the wive want to the most frequently participate in the future is also family-oriented activity. The self-developing activity is the one which the wive want to least frequently participate in the future. 3) The factors that influence the current leisure activities of the respondents are the occupational type of husband and wife, the educational level of wife, the age of the lastborn child and the leisure expenses. 4) The factors that influence the future leisure activities of the respondents are the occupational type of husband, the educational level and the occupational type of wife, the age of the lastborn child and the leisure time per week.

Data for this study were collected from 293 cases including the middle school students and their parents(151), the high school students and their parents(142). The major findings of this study were as follows: First, the level of inner control and self identity of parents is higher than that of the adolescents. Second, the level of family cohesion and adaptability of parents is higher than that of the adolescents. Third, on the satisfaction with family resource, there is no significant difference between adolescents and their parents. Finally, influential variables on satisfaction with family resources of adolescent and their parents are self identity and family cohesion.

This study examines factors to influence consumers’reliability, and satisfactions for consumer anti-site, and willingness to visit that site again among consumers utilizing anti-sites. According to the results of this study, first, male, consumers utilizing electronic commerce were more likely to visit anti-site. Consumers were more likely to write their own message and reply other consumers’message in anti-site when they have purpose to complain about their dissatisfaction regarding the process of purchase behavior. Second, consumer's satisfaction is higher in cases of consumers having higher recognition of necessity of anti-site, visiting not required to affiliate the members of anti-site, and being reliable sites. Third, consumers were more likely to use anti-site again when they had higher recognition in the necessity of anti-site and were more satisfied. Finally, in order to facilitate the utilization of anti-sites, those solutions include systematic classification and management of writings listed in the site, active management of the site managers, solutions for criticisms on the writings listed and lack of objectivity of information provided, and active searches for solutions rather than listing of writings on discontents and resistance.

The research examines individual environmental characteristics, the consciousness energy conservation and behavior level of college students that relate to the experience of taking courses on residential energy use held in college, as well as the influence of experiencing school education in the past. This is to ultimately evaluate the effect of school education on the consciousness of the energy conservation and behavior level of college students at present time, in order to assist in proposing a direction for the school education on residential energy use. The results of the research can be summarized as follows: First, there appeared a gap between the group that has attended courses on residential energy use and the group that has not in terms of their major, school year and the level of consciousness of the need for energy conservation. Second, students that have attended courses on residential energy use in college were reported to have received more training in high school through textbooks and guidance of teachers and have more experience in special education. And third, it appeared that taking courses in residential energy use by college students are influenced by personal factors such as their school year and gender, major, contents of their high school textbooks and the level of consciousness of the need for energy conservation.

This study is aimed to investigate Internet Addiction among youths who are main users of computers and internet and related variables. The survey was conducted to 520 students from middle and high schools on Jeju and analyzed catmod Regression. model was used to analyse the efficients of the independent variables on the three groups according to Internet addiction level. The major results of this study are as follows; First, By the viewpoint of Young's criteria, it revealed that most young people(68.5 ％) use the internet at the level of occasional problem-solution users. The percentage two groups of average on-line users and internet addicts were 27.3% and 4.2%, respectively. Second, the variables having significant effects on the of internet addiction group are gender, the number of brothers, adaptation to school life, mother's age, and family control of internet use. Third, the variables which have a significant effect on the of average internet users group referred to internet addicts group are gender, adaptation to school life, satisfaction with family life, average monthly household income, and the number of visits to private computer establishments.

The purpose of this study, thesis is to find out the main cause which influences recycling behaviors regarding package wastes. For this purpose, it discusses the difference of recycling behaviors based on socio-demographic factors and lifestyle categories and, it analyzes the relative influencing power of socio-demographic factors and lifestyle on recycling. The results are as follow: First, recycling behaviors on grounds of socio-demographic factors showed considerable difference as regards to age and income. At the income level of 3 Million Won (per month) and the higher the age, recycling behaviors were well established. Second, recycling behaviors based on lifestyle categories demonstrated considerable difference. While the pragmatists and sincere-devoted showed quite positive recycling behaviors, the social activity-oriented and other-directed fashion-pursued did not. Third, the most influential factor on recycling was the parsimony-oriented lifestyles.

This study examined which factors influence educational expenditure by family life cycle. Data for this study were from the 2001 Household Income and Expenditure Survey and consisted of a sample of 2,681 households. The results showed that the households having high school students had the highest educational expenditure and the households having middle school students had the highest ratio of educational expenditure to consumption expenditure. The education of household head, family type, the number of children, the age of the youngest child, and family income had significant effect on educational expenditure in all the stages of family life cycle. The results of this study will be useful for financial management of households and give suggestions for the government policy on education.

The purposes of this study were to examine the pattern of housewives’social activity participation and investigate the characteristics of this pattern. The data of this study were collected from 340 housewives living in Seoul area. Statistical methods used were frequency, percentage, oneway ANOVA, DMR-test, and cluster analysis. The results of this study were as follows; 1) 52.6% of respondents participated in social education, only 20.8％ in volunteer work. And a large number of housewives(77.6% of respondents) wanted to get a job. 2) Housewives were classified into job-demand group, job-apathy group and social activity oriented group by the pattern of social activity participation. And these groups were differed by Age, income, degree of satisfaction as a housewife, time constraints, and money constraints.