일간지 가정생활 관련 기사에 대한 내용분석

The content analysis of the articles related on family lifes in the local newspapers - With special reference to Kwangju & Chonnam daily newspapers

This study analyzed the contents of articles related on family lifes in Kwangju and Chonnam daily newspapers during the last year. In this study, articles were classified by the theme categories, publishing company, season, nature of messages, and academic diagnosis(nature). Through the results of this study we can understand what were major issues and concerns related family life lately, and what they suggested to take in Home Economics as a practical science. According to references on classification of home economics and a caption or content of articles the identified 890 articles were categorized into nine theme categories : family ethics, work and time, consumer, household economy, family(including child), housing, clothing, dietary food, health and hygiene. The results show that the numbers of each theme category were ranked as follows : (1) consumer(164) (2) dietary food (154) (3) family (136) (4) housing (129) (5) health and hygiene(84) (6) household economy(79) (7) clothing(65) (8) work and time(47) (9) family ethics(28) As for the subcategories of each theme category, in family ethics area articles related to ethic, consciousness, attitude, and value were reported the most frequently. In work and time, lots of articles related to leisure and service. In consumer, most of articles related to consumer information about goods & service. In household economy, many articles related to financial(banking) information. In family, child-related articles. In clothing, dress design and aesthetics. In dietary food, food purchase and management. In health and hygiene, articles about causes and symptoms of various disease and medical treatment were treated more frequently. According to publishing companies, Kwangju ilbo took more than Chonnam ilbo, but there was no great differences between the two. Also there was no great difference among frequency of articles by four season, but in winter articles on family lifes were written more frequently and in summer, the least. The numbers of informative articles were more than that of directive articles. In the side of the academic nature of message source, the numbers of non-academic articles were much more than that of academic articles.