2015, Vol.42, No.1

Korean Social Science Journal 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.06

pISSN : 1225-0368 / eISSN : 2196-4424
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kssj

This study investigates the relationship between teachers’ perceptions of the school principal’s leadership and their job satisfaction in Beaufort, a multiethnic semirural area in the interior of Sabah, Malaysia. Results of the research showed that there is a significant positive relationship between the perceived leadership of the school principal and job satisfaction among the teaching staff, and the relationship is not influenced by the demographic attributes of the study participants. The results accentuate the importance of developing the leadership of principals in public schools to enhance the commitment and job satisfaction of the teaching staff, which indirectly affects the overall performance of schools and students.

In this paper, a dynamic relationship between the industrial production index (IPI) of Japan and the IPI of South Korea is presented. With the help of a VAR(2) model, and using the terminology of Granger causality, it is shown that the IPI of Japan Granger causes the IPI of South Korea, but the IPI of South Korea Granger does not cause the IPI of Japan. Other aspects of this dynamic relationship between these two indices are presented as well.

This study examinedwhether there are differences in ageist attitudes toward a person who is struggling from terminal illness between Korean andAmerican socialworkmajor students at the undergraduate level. A total of 137 college students participated in this study: 66 Korean students in South Korea and 71 American students in the United States. The students were given surveys with an identical case but the subject was either a 38-year-old or an 80-year-old woman, and they answered 16 questions regarding their perception of age and death, end-of-life options, assessment and intervention, and values and ethics to care. The finding showed that there were generally negative ageist attitudes among social work students regardless of their cultural background, though there were some differences in their basic ageist attitudes. The findings suggest that social work students at the undergraduate level needmore education to resolve their negative ageist attitudes in order to provide effective service for the older population.