Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing

Jong Ji Lee

3 Articles

Development of Meaning in Life Scale II: Soon Ock Choi, Sook Nam Kim, Kyung Il Shin, Jong Ji Lee; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2005;35(5):931-942. Published online March 28, 2017; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2005.35.5.931

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to develop a meaning of life scale with high validity and reliability.

Methods

A conceptual framework composed of 4 phases of meanings of life was identified. And 49 preliminary items on a 4-points scale were developed through content validity. A reliability and validity test of the 49 items was conducted on 564 adults. By means of internal consistency of the 49 items, 1 item was deleted. To verify the 48 items, factor analysis, reliability test, and LISEREL were done.

Results

Through exploratory factor analysis of the 48 items, 8 factors were extracted. These factors were labeled as ‘ self- awareness and self-acceptance’, ‘ hope’, ‘ responsibility awareness’, ‘ love experience’, ‘ self transcendence’, ‘ relation experience’, ‘ self contentedness’, and ‘ Commitment’. Through LISEREL of the 48 items, 2 items were excluded and finally 46 itemsremained. Cronbach's Alpha of the 46 items was .94. The correlation coefficient of the Self-esteem scale was .79.

Conclusion

By the above results, the researchers recommend the following: An exploratory study on the variables related to the meaning of life are needed for criterion validity of this scale. Studies on meaning of life of different groupa, and subjects are needed for reverification.

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Development of Elderly Meaning in Life(EMIL) Scale: Soon Ock Choi, Sook Nam Kim, Kyung Il Shin, Jong Ji Lee, You Jhin Jung; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2003;33(3):414-424. Published online March 28, 2017; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2003.33.3.414

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Purpose

The purpose of this study was to develop elderly meaning in life scale with high validity and reliability.

Method

The process of development of this scale were as follows. A conceptual framework composed of 4 phases of meaning in life of elderly was identified based on the literature review and interviews with elderlies and discussion with experts in meaning in life. Total 62 items, 4-points scale were developed. Through reliability testing, factor analysis, 40 preliminary items were selected. By means of internal consistency of 40 items, 2 items whose inner-items correlation coefficient was below .30 were deleted. Through factor analysis 1 item whose factor loading was below .30 was deleted. Finally 37 items were remained. To verify 37 items, factor analysis, reliability testing, LISEREL were done. Data were collected from 320 elderly subjects in Busan-KyungNam and Jeonla Province from May to June in 2002.. SPSS WIN. 10.0 Program was used.

Result

The result of factor analysis of 37 items, 8 factors were extracted. These factors were labeled as ‘ self- awareness and self-acceptance’, ‘ contentedness with life’, ‘ purpose in life’, ‘ love in family’, ‘ role awareness’, ‘ futuristic aspiration’, ‘ commitment’, and ‘ experience of love’. These factors included 4 phases of the meaning in life. Cronbach's Alpha of 37 items was .908 and correlation coefficient of PIL was .75.

Conclusion

The researchers recommend the follows : The explorative study on the variables related to meaning in life are needed for criterion validity of this scale. The studies on meaning in life of different age groups, subjects are needed for reverification.

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An Effect of Nursing-Logotherapy on Purpose in Life and Finding Meaning, and Hope of the patients of Mental Illness: Jong Ji Lee; Journal of Nurses Academic Society 1997;27(4):727-739. Published online March 30, 2017; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jnas.1997.27.4.727

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The purpose of this study was to present an effective nursing intervention for helping the patients of mental illness by determining the effect of nursing-logotherapy on purpose in life and finding meaning, and hope of the patients of mental illness by developing and applicating program of nursing-logotherapy. The data was collected from March to September in 1995, and its subjects were the patients of mental illness who was appropriate to the standard of this study among the patients of mental illness who hospitalized into Neuro-Psychiatric ward of M. and B. hospital located in Pusan area. They were all 60 subjects, thirty of them for an experimental group and the rest for a control group. The research design was an equivalent control group pre-test and post-test design as an quasiexpe-rimental research and the conceptual framework was an interpersonal model. The data analysis was computerized by using SP-SS/PC+ and hypothesis testing was done with 2-way ANCOVA and simple correlation. Results were summarized as follows : 1. There were significant changes of purpose in life and finding meaning in an experimental group before and after treatment and a control group before and after. 2. There were significant changes of hope in an experimental group before and after treatment and a control group before and after. 3. The positive correlation between purpose in life and finding meaning and hope of the patients of mental illness were observed. Consequently, nursing-logotherapy could significantly increase the purpose in life and finding meaning, and of hope, so it could be said an effective nursing intervention for helping the healing of the patients of mental illness.

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