근로녀성(勤勞女性)의 성지식(性知識) 격차(隔差)에 영향을 미치는 요인(要因)에 관한 연구(硏究) = A Study on the Influentials of Knowledge Gap

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to find out the influence level of structural and functional characteristics on the knowledge gap. In explaining the knowledge gap, structural variables such as age, education, economic status and functional variable such as salience was regarded as independent variables, while seeked exposure to related information was regarded as mediating variable.
In this study the topics were family planning and sex informations among the unmarried females workers. The data collected for the study on knowledge and attitude on population and sex among unmarried female workers by Korea Institute for Population and Health in 1983 was partly used.
At one way ANOVA analysis, age, education, salience and seeked exposure level showed significant effects on the difference of group means on family planning and sex knowledge level. Only economic variable showed no relations at all. At multiple regression analysis using path model, education and salience was found as explaining seeked exposure by 32 percent and age added little. In also the multiple regression analysis, the explaining power of knowledge was figured out. In explaining reproductive physiological knowledge, exposure had 29 percent explaining power which is followed by educationg with four percent. Beside these, salience and age showed no adding power. In the contraceptive use knowledge the seeked exposure had 26 percent and followed by salience with five percent. We can assumed that knowledge gap on physiology formed structually while knowledge gap on contraceptive use came from functional reason, relatively.
In summary, education and salience determined the seeked exposure level which again had effects on knowledge level.
Therefore the family planning and sex education through school or institutional education must to be strengthend for the principle knowledges. Before the unmarried female workers become to involve in opposite sex problems or date, enough informations to have healthy social life must to be educated.