2020, Vol.29, No.2

Journal of Regional Studies and Development 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.4

pISSN : 1738-3846 / eISSN : 2765-4028
https://journal.kci.go.kr/jrsd_ipaid

This study aimed to measure the effect of the nutrition program for children aged under 5 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) by poverty line and that provide the evidence for managing the nutrition program. The national poverty level in the DRC is low at 176th among 187 UN member countries, 74% of households make a living under poverty line per day. The government of the DRC proposed various policies through 'The Democratic Republic of Congo Response Plan 2017-2018)'. In particular, the government has established the policy focused on eradicating poverty eradication. However, there is a lack of evidence for making the policy. This study used a Non equivalent control pretest-posttest study design in the DRC. The results of this study is considered that poverty line households took an attitude of reducing the financial burden by attending the nutrition program. These results of study are expected the evidence for making policy of the DRC.

This study explores qualitative changes such as 'happiness' in former socialist countries with an aim of overcoming the limitations of existing studies that focused on quantitative changes, such as economic growth. In order to compare national level happiness in those transitional countries, life satisfaction and social capital were mobilized as proxy variables constructed by the World Value Surveys. In particular, this study tries to investigate deep-meaning of the transition, that is, the changes in the value of the parameter by comparing the variable to the level of the Nordic countries. The analysis showed that the transition countries had a 70.5% level of happiness compared to the Nordic countries, while the interpersonal trust level was much lower than the 0.62 level in the Nordic countries. Noteworthy findings are a negative correlation between the two variables as there are high cases of happiness observed even in countries with low interpersonal trust ratios of less than 20 percent, but the happiness index has risen significantly in countries with interpersonal trust above 20 percent.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the mediating effect of service quality satisfaction in the relationship between the quality of volunteer service and social capital formation. For this purpose, hierarchical regression analysis and structural equation model are used. The main results are as follows. First, overall service satisfaction and service use are found to have a significant impact on social capital, indicating that users' social capital increases with higher overall service satisfaction and higher usage. Second, among the impacts of volunteer service quality on social capital, responsiveness has a direct significant impact on social capital, and reliability, certainty and empathy are not directly significant. Third, the overall service satisfaction has a mediating role between the quality of volunteer service and the social capital of the users, confirming that the quality of volunteer service increases social capital through overall service satisfaction. In particular, empathy, reliability, and certainty affect social capital through overall service quality satisfaction, thus the overall service satisfaction has the full-mediating effect between the quality of volunteer service and the social capital of the user. Based on these findings, this study presents theoretical and practical implications for increasing social capital of volunteer users.