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This paper reports the mediation effect of gratitude on the influence of loneliness on life satisfaction among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey was conducted in April 2022 on 282 college students who live in K City, Republic of Korea, to measure loneliness, life satisfaction, and gratitude. We used structural equations to identify relationships among variables. Loneliness was negatively correlated with both life satisfaction and gratitude, but gratitude was positively correlated with life satisfaction. Gratitude partially mediated the effect of loneliness on life satisfaction. This result indicates that loneliness had a direct effect on life satisfaction, but the effect was affected by gratitude. Therefore, when considering the contextual factors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, college students' life satisfaction must be promoted, and positive psychological capital such as gratitude should be cultivated. This study contributes to understanding the mental health of college students who experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and to promoting this health by increasing each individual's life satisfaction.

Through the systematic operation of the experience center through the safety management manual, the awareness of the need to prevent safety accidents, acquire basic knowledge about major disasters, social disasters, and various accidents, and learn how to deal with disasters and accidents has spread. Fire safety education is a device that can prevent unsafe conditions and dangerous behaviors in advance and minimize the damage caused by similar sudden accidents even if they occur, and although there are differences in the experience and need for safety education among people, most people feel the need for fire safety education. Therefore, since the 2000s, ministries such as the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, and Ministry of Employment and Labor have been expanding safety experiential education facilities in specific fields through their affiliated organizations, starting with the Seoul Civil Safety Laboratory. As such, we would like to explore ways to prevent safety accidents caused by duplication of experience contents and inability to deploy specialized personnel due to indiscriminate construction and operation of safety experience education facilities by city, province, and management entity, and to explore ways to systematically and effectively operate them.

This study aims to suggest policy directions to promote food security by applying the concept of critical infrastructure in Korea. It designates the agricultural sector for food security through the functions, systems, and facilities of critical infrastructure and presents policy directions. The results of the analysis show that the functions of critical infrastructure can be implemented by establishing a food security manual. Due to the lack of relevant manuals in Korea, it is necessary to strengthen the response system on a regular basis through the designation of a department dedicated to food security and the task, rather than ad hoc measures. The s y stem o f critical infrastructure is a public stockpile. As in the c ase of J apan, Korea also n eeds to strengthen the public stockpiling system through public-private cooperation to maintain an appropriate stockpile. The critical infrastructure facility is a grain stockpile. It is also necessary for Korea to devise a comprehensive food complex by understanding the characteristics and economic feasibility of grains in the future.

The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively measure the effect of the CPTPP on Japan's exports to member countries, and to find out various factors affecting Japan's exports. In this study, we adopt the spatial Durbin gravity model to consider the spatial dependency and spillover effects of trade flows between Japan and CPTPP member countries during the period from 2017 to 2021. While the CPTPP did not directly increase Japan's exports, it had an indirect spillover effect due to increased trade among other CPTPP member countries, which decreased Japan's exports. The factors that have a more direct impact on Japan's exports to CPTPP member countries are currently GDP of both countries, distance between countries, and the exchange rate. In particular, the direct effect of the exchange rate is most significant, as a depreciation of the Japanese yen enhances the price competitiveness of Japanese products, resulting in increased exports.

This study developed a mother-child group counseling program that integrates positive psychotherapy and emotional coaching and verified its effectiveness. Nine pairs participated in the experimental group and 10 pairs in the comparative group. Repeated measurement variance analysis was performed to verify program effectiveness. The program effect of children was significantly higher in self-esteem and interpersonal skills after participating in the program than that of children in the comparative group, and this effect was maintained until further tests. As for the effect of the mother program, the audit tendency and conflict coping ability of mothers in the experimental group significantly increased after participating in the program. In the case of communication skills, there was no significant difference between the experimental group and the comparative group. These results show that this program not only induced positive changes to school maladjusted children, but also was effective in causing positive changes in their mothers.

This study aims to make a theoretical consideration of the climate environment crisis and collaborative governance to overcome it. Climate crisis has emerged as a representative environmental problem that threatens the survival of mankind. In order to overcome the climate crisis, the IPCC suggested that the global average temperature increase should be suppressed within 1.5℃, and that 2050 carbon neutrality should be realized for this purpose. The international community is seeking a major transition to a decarbonized economic and social structure such as energy conversion and the Green New Deal policy. Response to the climate crisis and transition to a green society can be achieved through extensive civic participation and collaboration from various social groups. In the Chungbuk region, various practical collaboration activities have been carried out to realize carbon neutrality. In this study, implications were derived by collecting five cases of systematic practical collaboration activities promoted in Chungbuk and comparing and analyzing the evaluation results. Based on this, the direction of the carbon neutral policy in Chungbuk and the establishment of a practical collaboration system for realizing carbon neutrality were proposed.