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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Korean women"”.
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Korean Women in America: Gender -Role Attitude and Depression
… relationship between gender role attitude and Korean-American wives' levels of depression. Given the fact that Korean-American wives suffer from psychological distress and multiple burdens due to extremely conservative traditional culture and subsequent adhesive adaptation pattern, the …
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Predictors and consequences of intimate partner violence impacting Korean women
… Korea. IPV has significant adverse effects on women’s lives and causes irreparable injuries. This dissertation sought to examine the physical and mental consequences of IPV and identify which predictors within the intimate relationship develop into actual violence. First, we reviewed the …
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Life histories of two Korean women who marry American GIs
… study presents and interprets the lives of two Korean women, Sunhi and Aeran. These women in their forties married American GIs stationed in South Korea and have since then lived with their husbands in the U.S. One of my objectives is to understand them through their life histories told to me in …
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Rape Definitions and Perceptions Among Korean Women: Application of a Sociocultural Framework
… reveal similarities and differences in the ways Korean women of different sociocultural backgrounds define and perceive rape. In the rape definition study, the dimensions and the breadth of rape definitions emerged. Nine categories were identified: Five categories (i.e., Involves Sexual Acts or …
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TRANSNATIONAL SALVATION AND THE GENDERING OF HABITUS: KOREAN WOMEN PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES IN HAITI
… newcomers in the Haitian religious field, namely Korean and Korean American Protestant women missionaries. This confluence of Korean and Haitian Protestantism, which first emerged in the early 1990s, is a compelling case of the diversification of contemporary transnational and even global …
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The Effects of Vitamin D and Sarcopenia on Bone mineral density in Korean women
… on muscle mass. We analyzed the data from Korean National Health and Nutritional Survey IV in 2009.Women older than age 20 were included for the analyses.Bone mineral density and muscle mass were measured by DXA. Serum vitamin D concentration was tested. Vitamin D and muscle mass affected …
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Moving to the West: Media, Cultural Transnationalism and Identity. Cultural Dynamics of Korean Women in Diaspora
… project explores the experiences of young Korean women relocating to London, employing an ethnographically informed approach to delve into media, diasporic identity, and cultural transnationalism. The analysis draws from six month of intensive fieldwork, including “following” in-depth …
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A Feminist Approach to Understanding ESL Identity Development: A Case Study of Korean Women in U.S. Universities
… cultures affect the identities of three female Korean graduate students in American institutions. The theoretical approach of this project integrated elements from sociocultural theory and feminist research methodology. The participants narratives, collected via interviews and email exchanges …
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Building Cultural Bridges: American Women Missionaries in Korea 1885-1910
In this thesis, I explore the role of American women missionaries to Korea and how they built cultural bridges that Korean women crossed to become Christian converts. American women missionaries opened their homes to and deliberately sought out relationships with Korean women, relationships …
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Testing an integrated body image media model : focusing on a cross-cultural comparison between US and Korean college women
… exposure predicted cognitive outcomes for U.S. women, body image disturbance and behavioral intentions for both U.S. and Korean women. No significant link was found in emotional outcomes. Thin ideal media exposure and body image disturbance were mediated by cognitive outcome (normative thinness) …
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Genetic Association Study of Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures in Postmenopausal Women
… compression fractures in postmenopausal Korean women. The study subjects consisted of 82 patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures and 117 control postmenopausal Korean women. PCR-RFLP and real-time PCR assay were used to analyze VEGF, MTHFR, and TS polymorphisms. …
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Fragments and Borders: (re)constructing Korean womanhood through patchwork
… the representation, materials, and histories of Korean women told through Korean patchwork, theorising patchwork as a radical form to reimagine (material) histories of Korean women and women of the Korean diaspora. As an amalgam of different pieces that unifies once separated fragments, patchwork …
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Safety practices of older women in three Korean apartment complexes
… identify whether the residential environments of Korean women age 65 and older living in apartments were safe for them. In order to accomplish the purpose, this study focused on the safety practices of older Korean women in their daily activities. The sample of 90 older women was selected from the …
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Corporeal Colonialism: Medicine, Reproduction, and Race in Colonial Korea
… in the physical and sexual well being of Korean women and maps out the scientific and medical protocols for the diagnosis, classification, and treatment of women's reproductive diseases. In doing so, my study establishes rich new ground for further research on the genealogy and current …
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A Study of relationship between health promoting lifestyle, depression, quality of life among middle aged women
… depression and quality of life among middle aged women. It was reported that the average life span of Korean men in the year 2005 was 75.14 years and the average life span of Korean women for the same year was 81.89 years. Comparing the average life expectancy of Korean men has increased 5.56 …
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I Would Never Set Foot On American Soil Again: Religion, Space, and Gender: American Missionaries in Korea
… missionaries' primary focus became converting Koreans to Christianity. Therefore, to convert Koreans, both Korean women and men, the Southern Presbyterians made two more changes, they created sex-segregated spaces to conform with Korean cultural expectations for spatial use and, secondly, used …
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Bible Women: Evangelism and Cultural Transformation in the Early Korean Church
When Protestant missionaries first arrived on the Korean peninsula in the 1880s they encountered religious syncretism being practiced in a socio-cultural environment which prohibited all interaction between the predominantly male missionaries and the local females. To remedy this situation, the …
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The Vascular Characteristics
… from lesional and non-lesional facial skin of 50 Korean women with melasma. The immunohistochemistry was taken to determine the expression of factor VIIIa and VEGF in melasma. RESULTS: The values of a* was significantly higher in the melasma lesion than that of perilesional normal skin. …
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