Seong-Hoi Kim’s scientific contributions

... Self-esteem had a stronger impact on life satisfaction in elementary school students, whereas ego-resilience had a higher impact in middle-school students. Fifth graders from multicultural families did not welcome others' interest or attention directed toward them for being different; they wanted to keep their background a secret as much as possible and refused to participate in programs for multicultural families because they did not want to stand out (30). As shown here, educational programs for early adolescents should refrain from specifically targeting multicultural students by offering separate classes or providing special support, and they should be designed carefully to ensure that these students' self-esteem remains intact. ...

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Changes in Factors Affecting the Life Satisfaction of Multicultural Adolescents in Korea

... Therefore, there are few opportunities and little time for parents to relate to their adolescent children intimately. Although previous research conducted in Korea has measured the perception of parent-child relationships in elementary school, middle school, and college students (Lee & Kim, 2012), few studies have measured the perception of parent-child relationships in parents of adolescents. Thus, further research is required to advance the field by examining Korean parents of adolescents. ...

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Relationships between Korean parents’ marital satisfaction, parental satisfaction, and parent–child relationship quality

... Successful interpersonal relationships are closely associated with the various different social and psychological elements such as mental cognition, emotion, behavioral characteristics, and types of interactions (Kim & Park, 2010). Self-esteem and depression are elements most widely considered among these. ...

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Effectiveness of an Interpersonal Relationship Program on Interpersonal Relationships, Self-esteem, and Depression in Nursing Students

... EFA and CFA using two split-samples suggested a two-factor model structure (i.e., positive and negative) for parent-child relationship quality. Several studies have evaluated parent-child relationships in Korea (Lee & Kim, 2011; however, they focused on fathers (Lee & Kim, 2012) or relationships perceived by elementary school students in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades (Lee & Kim, 2011). This study was unique, in that no validation research had previously been conducted to measure parent-child relationship quality in Korean parents with adolescent children, using a national data set. ...

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Relationships between Korean parents’ marital satisfaction, parental satisfaction, and parent–child relationship quality

... In the rapidly changing society and the situation as youth unemployment are adding university students' difficulty more. University period influence the overall occupation of the adults and the social life [1], therefore, it is necessary to adapt to it well. ...

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Korean Version of the 14-Item Resilience Scale (RS-14) for University Students: A Validity and Reliability Study

... Lim and Yoon (2005) define job preparation behavior as encompassing cognitive, defining, and action levels of readiness, proposing specific preparatory behaviors at the action level, professional and occupational knowledge at the cognitive level, and occupational certainty and decision-making efficacy at the perceptual level. Yoon and Seong (2012) view the factors of job preparation behaviors as self-understanding behaviors, employment capability enhancement behaviors, and occupational world exploration behaviors. Here, self-understanding behaviors are based on an individual's understanding of psychological and environmental characteristics; the process of efforts made to enhance professional capabilities are considered employment capability enhancement behaviors; and behaviors involved in collecting and exploring occupational information are categorized as job exploration behaviors. ...

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Strategies for Developing Pre-Employment Adaptability from a High-Quality Employment Perspective: An Analysis of College Students' Job Preparation Behaviors

... Vocational identity Vocational identity was measured using the Career Identity Scale for College Students, which was developed by Kim and Kim [21] and verified for its internal consistency, test-retest reliability, construct validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity [21]. ...

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Vocational Identity and Ego Identity Status in Korean Nursing Students

... A sense of competence was also found to be the core component of general self-efficacy in the Korean literature (Ha & Kim, 2009;Kim, 1997;Kim & Yoo, 2010). Two factors, namely, self-regulatory efficacy and task difficulty preference efficacy, were frequently extracted as a component of selfefficacy (Kim, 1997;Kim & Yoo, 2010;Yang & Kim, 2011). However, social self-efficacy as a dimension of self-efficacy was rarely found in extant research. ...

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Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Self-Efficacy: An Empirical Study of Korean Older Adults

... This study revised and used the questionnaire for middle school students' school attitude, which was developed by [9], in consideration of the development level and school characteristics of middle school students. [9] made a questionnaire about school attitude based on a total of 35 questions: 9 questions of students' attitudes towards their school's environment factors, namely school environmental factors that reflect students' attitudes toward the overall physical environment of school, such as the cleanliness and comfort of school facilities, air conditioning and heating, water supply and meal service; 7 questions of school teacher factors that reflect students' preference for subject teachers and homeroom teachers, teachers' teaching styles, and attitudes related to relationships with teachers; 7 questions of school friend factors that reflect preferences for school friends, attitudes related to relationships with friends; 6 questions of school learning factors that reflect the attitudes related to school classes, tasks, tests and scores; 6 questions of school general factors that reflect the attitudes related to school life and school system. ...

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The Differences in School-Related Attitudes of Middle School Students in School Sports Club

... The interpersonal harmony scale was developed by Kim Sung-hoe and Park Kyung-hee [17]. ...

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The Relationship among Middle-aged Crisis, Wisdom, Savoring Beliefs, Interpersonal Harmony and Life Satisfaction