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- A Longitudinal Study on the Degree of Demoralization and the Constraining Factors of Victims from the Kwangju Civil Uprising
- Ju Na Byun
- Korean J Str Res. ;8(2):63-74.
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PDF - For the purposes of figuring out the degree of demoralization (life unsatisfaction and uphappiness) of the injured victims at the time of the bloody 5.18 Civil Uprising in Kwangju, Korea, 1980 and the subsequent 17 years; analyzing constraining factors. This study surveyed 156 members of the 5.18 Injured Victims Association for 6 months from July through December of 1997. This study employs the Cantril Life Satisfaction Ladder(Cantril 1965) and the Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH, Kozma and Stones 1980) as the internationally standardized apparatuses for measuring happiness. For the questions on life satisfaction, 97% of the subjects answered not satisfied, 45.1% of whom answered very unsatistied. The mean score of life satisfaction is 2.94. The life satisfaction scores at each point of time change as follows: Right before the 5.18 Uprising, the life satisfaction score is 5.66, but right after the Uprising, it goes 4 ladders down to the lowest point. Right after the 1990 Compensation, the score goes 1 ladder up to 2.94. Right after the enacment of the 5.18 Special Law, it goes up 1 more ladder to 3.58, but at the present time of 1997, it goes down 1 ladder again to 2.94. As for the future of 2002, the score 4.45,1.5 times more satisfied than now, but this score is still lower than that of before the Uprising. The score of unhappiness is greater if they have fewer available clinics; if the degree of disability is higher; and if the scores of life satixfaction are lower.Illness also has significant influences on the scores of unhappiness. The unhappiness scores are also significantly varied according to the employment status. The illness and employment factors explain as much as 78.7% of their unhappiness.
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