2018, Vol., No.58

Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.39

pISSN : 1598-4230 / eISSN : 2586-7601
https://journal.kci.go.kr/ihss

In this study, an analysis of Korean news articles and internet search keywords is conducted to see how South Korean people have thought about Taiwan and Taiwanese people during a period of twenty years, from 1997 to 2017. This study has three major findings: Over time, the number of newspaper reports and Internet searches about Taiwan has increased, and the area of coverage has also expanded. This means that Koreans are increasingly concerned about Taiwan and areas of interest are becoming wider; various types and fields of practical exchanges, such as direct aviation, travel, academia, environment, agriculture, science and technology are on the rise; the Korean’s concern with Taiwan and the continuous increase in exchanges between the two sides do not seem relevant to the change in Taiwan’s presidents’political tendency toward mainland China and the cross-strait relations.

While disability identity has been widely used in various studies of the disabled, there has been few empirical research on whether and how it differed among the disabled. This study aims to explore the factors associated with the measures of disability identity in total and its five components in individual – human value, acceptance of disability, civil rights, common ground, and external barrier. The factors considered in the study include social relations(experience of discrimination, social support), socio-demographic characteristics(sex, age, education etc.) and characteristics of disability(degree, cause, type and length of the disability). The analysis, based on the 2nd wave survey on the disabled persons conducted by SSK research team, revealed that there were common variables affecting five components in a similar way. This was the case with social support. Thus, it was reasonable to view social support as a promoter of disability identity. In the meanwhile, there were found variables with different influences according to the components of disability identity. Education level has affected on disability acceptance of all components of disability identity. For human value and acceptance of disability, effective were disability caused by accident and heavy disability: for civil rights and external barrier, experience of discrimination, physical disability, visible and hearing impairment; for common ground, age. The findings on variation in significant variables across the five components of disability identity suggest that the use of disability identity as a single measure require detailed caution in research plan. In addition, they provide a ground for more strategic approach to enhance disability identity in practice.

The purpose of the study was to examine factors associated with college students' suicidal ideation by examining how it was affected by individual, family, school, social and cultural factors and mediating factors(e.g. self-identity and depression). Data were gathered from college students of five universities in Jeonbuk area. Using a structured self-administered questionnaire, a total of 1,500 questionnaires were distributed, and 1,329 of them were analyzed in this study. The path analysis revealed that the number of family members and friends who committed suicide and experience of visiting counseling center had a direct effect on suicidal ideation, and stress, experience of abuse during childhood, grade, and friend support had an indirect effect on suicidal ideation through self-identity and depression. In addition, counseling needs, communication skills between parents and children, expert support, and attitudes regarding one's appearance had both direct and indirect effects on suicidal ideation via self-identity and depression. However, attitudes regarding mass media suicide reports were not significantly associated with suicidal ideation. Based on the study findings, implications for practice to prevent and reduce suicidal ideation of college students and for future studies were discussed.