A Study of Coping Behavior Types of Private Education Expenditure

사교육비 부담의 대처행동 유형에 관한 연구

  • 김시월 (건국대학교 소비자·주거학과) ;
  • 박배진 (건국대학교 가정학과)
  • Published : 1999.10.01

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to classify the types of coping behaviors of the burden of private education expenditure and to identify the characteristics of the households representing certain coping behaviors. For empirical analysis, the data of the study were collected from 868 housewives living in Seoul and Sungnam. The statistical methods adopted for data analysis are frequency, percentage, mean, Factor analysis, Cluster analysis and Logit analysis. In this study, it is assumed that the coping behaviors are classified by three factors - financial management, negative, positive. The reset of the logit analysis shows that private education expenditure and subjective burden are the most critical variables for classifying the coping behaviors.

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