The purpose of this study Were to explore the characteristics of children's envrionmental factors included clothing, food, housing, and family stress, to investigate the effects of socio-demographic variables on the environmental factors, and to ident...
The purpose of this study Were to explore the characteristics of children's envrionmental factors included clothing, food, housing, and family stress, to investigate the effects of socio-demographic variables on the environmental factors, and to identify the relative importance of environmental factors on children's life satisfaction.
The subjects of this study consisted of 510 5-6th grade students drawn from six elementary schools in Cheong-Ju, Data were analyzed by the frequency, percentage, Cronbach a coefficient, x² -test, and stepwise multiple regression using SPSS WIN program.
The results of this study were as follows;
1. More than 60% of children responded satisfaction On their clothing environment at home, The variables influencing on their clothing environmental satisfaction are child's sex, the education level of their parents, the oppotunity of buying and selecting the clothing together child and their parents, the frequency of buying and changing the clothing.
2. More than 55% of children responded satisfaction on their meal environment at home. About 75% of children answered that they ate food deliciously and that about 70% of them enjoyed their meal when they ate food with their family at home. The higher the education level of child's father, the higher the score of food satisfaction. The more the oppotunity of eating together at home and of eating outside with family, the higher the score of food satisfaction.
3. More than 50% of children responded satisfaction on their housing environments except neighbors' noise. Their satisfaction level was high en the size of space as that of house, common space and own chuldren's room, but dissatisfaction Was answerd on the free decoration of his or her own room.
The variables influencing on their housing environmental satisfaction were how many rooms the house had, which type the house was, whether the house was the family's own possession, whether he or she nad their own room, and how large the house was. To raise the satisfaction level of above 5th graders of the elementary school, families are recommended to live in the house of their own possession, which had more than 3 rooms including children room.
4. The chidren had family stressors in the following order, from the most to the least. sibiling conflict, parent's over-expectation. parent's over-interference, parent's unfairness. parent's physical abuse. parent's seperation or divorce, parent's ignorance, parent's death or absent, family illness, and parent's inability of earning.
The family stressors were associated with family forms. maternal occupation, and level of parent's education. Chidren's life satisfaction was also associated with family stresses as expected.
5. Fourty-six percent of children's life satisfaction were accounted for by food satisfaction, family stress, housing and clothing satisfaction in order. The results contribute to a literature demonstrating the importance of environmental factors such as clothing, food, housing, and family in understanding children's life satisfaction.