This study was performed to identify how women's participation in social education programs for women operated currently influence social adaptation and quality of life. It carried out a survey with women who participate in social education programs o...
This study was performed to identify how women's participation in social education programs for women operated currently influence social adaptation and quality of life. It carried out a survey with women who participate in social education programs or education activity operated by social education centers in order to verify how their participation in society influences quality of life in the aspects of their individual characteristics, social and economical background, organization's traits. The subjects of survey were 300 women who participated in programs for women operated in social education institutes of Seoul and Kyunggi area and it was conducted from September 1st through September 10th 2007 and analyzed by statistics package, SPSS 12.0. The results are summarized like below.
First, seeing social adaptation and quality of life according to demographical properties, there was a statistical meaningful difference on quality of life (p<.05) in educational background; it showed the case of below highschool graduation evaluated the improvement of quality of life higher than the case of professional college and over.
Second, in terms of social adaptation and quality of life according to women's participation type in social education programs and the range of participation, there was statistical significant difference on social adaptation and quality of life according to the participation type (p<.05). That is, participators in the categories of vocational skills or license acquisition evaluated high comparatively.
Third, according to the result of the analysis on influence of motivation of participation (learning-oriented, activity-oriented and goal-oriented) in quality of life, learning-oriented factors and goal-oriented factors influenced statistically positive (+) effect quality of life in the aspect of independent variate; quality of life rose by .320 when focusing learning-oriented motivation and rose by .260 when focusing goal-oriented motivation.
Fourth, according to the result of verification on the influence of participation motivation (learning-oriented, activity-oriented and goal-oriented) in social education programs in social adaptation, it showed activity-oriented motivation and goal-oriented motivation influenced statistically meaningful positive(+) effect in socal adaptation. That is, social adaptation rose by .504 when emphasizing activity-oriented motivation and rose by .215 when emphasizing goal-oriented motivation.
Such above results showed that women's participation in social education program is useful mechanism to enhance social adaptation and quality of life. More specifically, it disclosed that most women have inclination to strengthen expectation and value on goal-oriented self-development through participation in social eduction programs, even though there are some difference of demographic characteristics.
Namely, learning-oriented motivation to have motivation for self-satisfaction, self-realization and pursuit of knowledge and goal-oriented motivation to have motivation for effective solution on private matters or duties affect the improvement of quality of life, while activity-oriented motivation for more active and aggressive life in home and society and goal-oriented motivation to have motivation for effective solution on private matters or duties affect the enhancement of social adaptation.
These results are proved in the fact that many of women who remained as professional house-wife after marriage or child birth experienced restriction of various entry and activities to society and then got vicarious satisfaction by participating in various kinds of social education programs operated by self-communities, and participation motivation is high and goal-oriented in case of programs with specific goals like vocational skills and license acquisition and quality of life rises accordingly. Therefore it is presented that the social education programs run by each self-governing communities at the moment should overcome the break among programs getting out of passive operation, and link to the stage to deepen and develop the programs to license, capability, skill and professional level escaping from the programs with cumulative and simplified function connected with similar jobs or hobby-focused programs.