KICCE Policy Brief

The Impact of Expansion in Child Care Subsidy Coverage on Household Expenditure Yoosik Shin This study analyzes the effects of expansion in child care subsidy coverage on household expenditure while exploiting policy reform for such coverage, which grew from the lowest 70% income level to all households. We analyze how the households previously regarded as ineligible for child care subsidy in 2012 changed their expenditure pattern the following year, leading to eligibility. The difference in ..

• Chief Of ResearchYoosik Shin
• PublishDate2020-12-31

The Influence of Father’s Co-parenting on Mother-infant Interaction and Home Environment: the Mediation Effect of Mother’s Parenting Efficacy Ji Hyun Kim and Yoonkyung Choi The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the fathers’ co-parenting on the quality of mother-infant interaction as well as the household’s parenting environment mediated by the mothers’ parenting efficacy. The study intends to facilitate fathers’ participation in child rearing especially for th..

• Chief Of ResearchJi Hyun Kim
• ResearchersYoonkyung Choi
• PublishDate2020-12-31

The Effect of Child’s Temperament, Behavioral Inhibition and Mother’s Parenting Behavior on the Response to a Child’s Task Rechallenge Yunhee Jang and Hyukjun Moon This study is based on the task retake response of infants as a major factor. The response to task rechallenge was individually conducted on 202 pairs of 5-year-old children, and questionnaires were distributed to collect data related to the child's temperament, behavior control, and the mother’s child-rearing behavior. Tec..

• Chief Of ResearchYunhee Jang
• ResearchersHyukjun Moon
• PublishDate2020-12-31

A Study on Family Planning Types and Related Factors among Young Married Women in Korea Yoojean Kang The purpose of this study is to examine the diversity of family types planned by young married women and what factors affected these types. From the data of ‘the 2018 Survey on the National Fertility, Family Health and Welfare in Korea’, 1,933 married women aged 25-39 with one child or no child were analyzed. First, a ‘one-child family’ was the most common type. Second, the factors inf..

• Chief Of ResearchYoojean Kang
• PublishDate2020-12-31

A Longitudinal Study of the Causal Relationship between Friend Support, Body Satisfaction and Self-esteem of Multicultural Children Kim YoungmiThis study examined the longitudinal relationship between friend support, body satisfaction and self-esteem in multicultural children using the autoregressive cross-lagged model. A total of 1,443 data were obtained from the first, second, and third waves of the Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study(MAPS). The major findings are as follows: First, fr..

• Chief Of ResearchKim Youngmi
• PublishDate2020-09-30

Development and Validation of a Parents’ Discipline Style Scale for Young ChildrenYunhee Choi and Hyukjun MoonThis study aimed to develop and validate a parents’ discipline style scale for young children. For this purpose, the empirical data of mothers were collected through a focus group interview, and based on this, items were developed to verify the content and cognitive validity. The survey was conducted on 582 mothers with preliminary items, and exploratory factor analysis was conducte..

• Chief Of ResearchYunhee Choi
• ResearchersHyukjun Moon
• PublishDate2020-09-30

The Effect of Coparenting Quality on Children’s Social Skills: The Dual Mediating Effect of Maternal Response to Children’s Negative Emotion and Children’s Anxiety Junghye Sung and Choonkyung KimThe purpose of this study was to examine the dual mediating effect of maternal response to children’s negative emotions(MRCNE) and children’s anxiety in the relationship between coparenting quality and children’s social skills. Study participants consisted of 318 dyads of 4- and 5-year-..

• Chief Of ResearchSunjin Park
• ResearchersMinju Kang
• PublishDate2020-09-30

An Analysis of the Structural Relationship Between Variables Related to Childhood Media Device Addiction : A Longitudinal Mediation Analysis Using Multivariate Latent Growth Curve Modeling Junghye Sung and Choonkyung KimThe purpose of this study was to analyze the longitudinal mediation effects of mothers' depression and controlled parenting on the relationship between early childhood mothers' negative life events and childhood media device addiction. To analyze the relationship between ea..

• Chief Of ResearchJunghye Sung
• ResearchersChoonkyung Kim
• PublishDate2020-06-30

Identifying the Typology of Changes in Work-Family Conflict among Working Mothers with an Early School-Age Child and Examining Antecedents and ConsequencesYea-Ji Hong and Kangyi LeeThe purpose of this study was to identify the typology of changes in work-family conflict among working mothers with an early school-age child and to examine their antecedents and consequences. Data from 459 working mothers who participated in the eighth, ninth, and tenth waves of the Panel Study on Korean Children w..

• Chief Of ResearchYea-Ji Hong
• ResearchersKangyi Lee
• PublishDate2020-06-30

A Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Safety Education Programs for ChildrenLee Soo JaeThe purpose of this study was to verify the overall effectiveness of  child safety education programs and review the effects of related variables. This meta-analysis covered dissertations published between 2010 and 2019. The R program was used to obtain the results of the random-effect model by analyzing the overall effect size of the safety education programs, the program objectives, and the related v..

• Chief Of ResearchLee Soo Jae
• PublishDate2020-06-30