| Rapid Socio-environmental Changes and Adolescent Problems in Korea |
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Duk-Jin Yun |
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Pediatrics Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea |
| 사회환경 변화와 청소년들의 문제점 |
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윤덕진 |
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연세대학교 의과대학 명예교수 |
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| Abstract |
Purpose
: There were rapid socio-environmental changes in Korea caused by industrializations in last
thirty years. Those changes are : first, abrupt changes from the environments with closed Confucian
ideas to the liberal democratic society, second, agricultural society changed to industrialized society
and families with two or three generations are broken down into nuclear families at each generation,
third, the annual personal income was increased from less than 100 US dollars in 1960’s to 10,000 US
dollars in recent years, and some peoples show luxurious consuming, adolescents became feeble
minded and peoples avoid jobs with dirty or hard works, fourth, one third of young couples employed
are dual income families and they left their child to a neighbourhood, or a day-care center or infant
home for caring children during work hours, fifth, the school education focused on the entrance
examination of the university that causes conflicts between parents and offsprings.
Methods
: The author studied differences of family environments between student group(SG)
consists of middle and high school students, and juvenile delinquent group(JDG) confined in prison.
It is revealed that the extent of misconduct depend on different factors such as the age of study
subjects, absence of parent(s) in the family, total family income, parents’ educational level, personal
expenses and the conflicts between parents. The conditions for those factors were worse in JDG
as compared with that of SG. The differences were statistically significant. As long as the extent
of delinquency is concerned, delinquent points of JDG were significantly higher as compared with
that of SG for all factors.
Results
: In order to prevent juvenile delinquency in Korea, it is recommended that educational level
and the living standard of the lower class peoples should be raised, the sound families which do have
less conflicts should be established as many as possible, defective families should be reduced by
decreasing divorce rate and car accident, the current educational system that is making much more
conflicts between parents and their offsprings should be changed so that their given temperament
would be brought up to the highest level, parents who do not want to see misbehavior of their children
should not do actions that are considered not to be done by youngsters and must set a good example,
parents should act up to what they say, adult education is to be developed so that to rear their children
emotionally sound as much as possible.
Conclusion
: It is recommended that :
1) We, pediatricians must concern not only for their physical and mental health of the children, but
also intervening their families.
2) When we, pediatrician would find any unhappy children leaving parents, should lead and help
them to receive proper love and home-education.
3) Day-care nurseries, nursing schools and kindergartens that are under control of a local district
office must employ qualified teachers and enough spaces.
4) Home-education should be done by the parents in each family. In order to give better
home-education we have to teach on rearing babies and children and on home-education during
the middle, high school ages in female.
5) The society has the responsibility of admitting and educating all unhappy children in
institutional facilities.
6) As long as the economic conditions permit, compulsory education for one or two years of 5 to 6
years-old children should be performed to learn about social moralities and basic regulations. |
| Key Words:
Adolescent, Delinquency, Social environment |
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