The purpose of this study is to inquire into the determinants of entertainers' hairstyle and mass media preferred by adolescents, particularly, on adolescent group from so-called sensitive generation.
For this study, a survey was carried out on st...
The purpose of this study is to inquire into the determinants of entertainers' hairstyle and mass media preferred by adolescents, particularly, on adolescent group from so-called sensitive generation.
For this study, a survey was carried out on students, from the first year in middle school to the third year in high school, living in Seoul from July 13, to July 19, 2009. 590 copies among questionnaires of 624 copies were used for a final analysis.
For the collected data, the SPSS v. 12.0 was used to carry out the frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability verification, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Duncan test, correlation analysis and multi-regression analysis through the process of data coding and data cleaning. The summary of the results is as follows.
First, the demographic characteristics of those surveyed showed that for sex, there are many male students than female students, and for school career, there are many high school students than middle school students. For monthly allowance, there were many students who used an allowance of 80,000-100,000 won in a month. For the present greatest concern, the career decision was the highest, and for the counterpart of conversation about concerns, the friend was the highest.
Second, the division of mass media's sub-factors into media utilization, media applicability and media limitation to inquire into adolescents' general utilization of mass media showed that mass media's sub-factors are high by order of media utilization, media limitation and media applicability. For the utilization of mass media by demographic characteristics, the limitation of female students was higher than that of male students. For lots of monthly allowance, beauty salon's use frequency and concern about appearance care, and for conversation with friends about concerns, the use of mass media was relatively high.
Third, the division of mass media's sub-factors into beauty recognition, beauty concern and beauty applicability to inquire into adolescents' general beauty concern and attitude showed that mass media's sub-factors are high by order of beauty recognition, beauty concern and beauty applicability. For the beauty concern and attitude by demographic characteristics, the beauty concern of high school students was higher than that of middle school students. The more the frequency of beauty salon's use increased, the beauty recognition and beauty applicability were high. For students of high concern about appearance care, the beauty recognition and beauty concern were also high. For conversation with friends about concerns, the beauty concern and attitude were relatively high.
Fourth, the adolescents' general preference of entertainers' hairstyle showed that the preference of (asymmetric) dandy hairstyle is the highest, followed by natural hairstyle, Mohican hairstyle, (modern) classic hairstyle, avant-garde hairstyle and feminine retro-hairstyle. For the preference of entertainers' hairstyle by demographic characteristics, there were all significant difference, and for the frequency of beauty salon's use and the regulation of female students' hair, there were no significant difference.
Lastly, the impact relationship between the use of mass media, the beauty concern and attitude, the relationship with preference of entertainers' hairstyle and each variables showed that there is a significant positive relationship between the use of mass media and the beauty concern and attitude. The more the frequency of media use or the media applicability and media limitation increased, the adolescents' utilization of mass media affected the beauty concern and attitude.
Today is the age of information and telecommunication. So the influence of various mass media is expected to more grow and the mass media is expected to have more important function to adolescents at the time when learn and acquaint lots of new things. As showed in a survey until now, adolescents spend so much time with mass media and it is expected that contact with harmful mass media is closely associated with its limitation, application and utilization. The frequent contact of specific mass media will have to purify the mass media, and further find and propose a way that can positively raise its applicability. In particular, in this study, the beauty service corresponded to adolescents will have to come by inquiring into the use frequency of mass media, beauty concern and attitude, and entertainers' hairstyle preferred by them from an angle of media utilization and gratification on adolescent group from so-called sensitive generation, and by continuously studying positive repercussion of youth culture of limitation behavior with entertainers' effective image management and the development of beauty market and beauty marketing on them.
KEY WORDS : Entertainers, Hairstyle, Adolescents, Mass media.