Citizen science engages the general public in scientific research, providing opportunities to enhance scientific literacy and inquiry skills. This study aims to explore how participation in the ‘Mission Galaxy’ citizen science project affects high school students' attitudes toward astronomy and science, the development of their scientific inquiry skills, and strategies to sustain their interest and engagement in citizen science activities. From a methodological perspective, a one-group pretest-posttest design was applied to investigate changes in students’ attitudes and skills. A total of 115 high school students participated in the study. Before and after participation, students completed a survey measuring their attitudes toward astronomy and science. Additionally, qualitative data were collected through semi-open questionnaire and interviews to analyze students’ experiences and perceptions. After participating in the citizen science project, students showed significant improvement in their confidence in learning astronomy (p=0.003) and their overall perception of science (p=0.018). Among scientific inquiry skills, observation (31%) and classification (25.4%) showed the most significant improvement, followed by inference (14.1%). In order to ensure students’ continued participation, it was confirmed that interface design and feedback system construction that stimulate participants’ interest and motivation are necessary. The results of this study provide important implications for exploring the meaning of educational use of citizen science projects and ways to induce continuous participation.

Despite the importance of innovation and customer participation for both practitioners and academics, the effects of the integration between innovation and customer participation has rarely been addressed in consumers’ perspectives. Accordingly, the authors first examine separately the impact of the two breakthrough innovation types (technology-based innovation vs. market-based innovation) and two forms of customer participation (as information providers vs. as co-developers) on brand attitude. Following this, the interaction effect between the two variables is also tested. We used a 2x2x2 mixed subjects design. We employed a 2 (breakthrough innovations: T-INNO, M-INNO) x 2 (customer participation: CPI, CPC) between-subjects design for independent variables and the dependent variable had a 2 (brand attitude: pre-brand attitude, post-brand attitude) within-subject design. The hypotheses were tested for a cell phone product category by pretest. Participants were 148 university students from Seoul, Korea. The results show that both breakthrough innovation and customer participation positively influence the brand attitudes held by customers, though neither the two forms of breakthrough innovation nor the two forms of customer participation differ from each other in terms of the strength of this relationship. However, when technology-based innovation is combined with customer participation in the form of co-development, a stronger positive impact on brand attitude is observed than when customers are treated as information providers. Conversely, when market-based innovation is combined with customer participation in the form of information provision, a stronger positive impact on brand attitude is observed than when the customers act as co-developers. These results have a number of theoretical contributions. First, prior innovation research has mostly focused on the impact on firm performance. Even though a few researchers have conducted several studies about the impact of innovation in terms of consumers’ perspectives, they did not consider the specific type of innovation. The present study focuses on comparing the impact of two types of breakthrough innovation based on customers’ perspectives. Second, prior customer participation or co-creation research has mostly looked at the positive impact on performance from both the firm’s and consumer’s perspective. However, they did not consider the specific type of customer participation which can affect differently performance. In this study, the differential impact of each type of customer participation was explored. Third, previous studies have not focused on the interaction effect between two types of innovation and customer participation. We found that the interaction effect can be significant when they are combined together. This study has also managerial implications. First, when firm managers utilize both breakthrough innovation and customer participation strategies, they need to consider the most effective combination of the forms of innovation and participation available. Second, this interaction effect should be considered not only in the innovative product development process but also in the communication activities in their customers. Finally, the limitations and further research directions of this results are discussed.

Finding the balance between economic development and preservation of the natural environment is a challenging yet important task. This is a particularly pressing issue in the case of China, as it is the largest and fastest-growing market for tourism. The purpose of this research is to examine Chinese tourists’ participation in nature-based, tourism activities by incorporating tourists’ environmental attitude, measured by the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) scale, into a tourism constraint-negotiation model. The responses of 112 Chinese tourists were examined through CFA. The results from structural equation modeling show environmental attitude will positively affect tourists’ motivation, which, in turn, will affect their negotiation strategy and ultimately their participation behavior. On the other hand, constraints on nature-based tourism will negatively affect tourists’ participation behavior. The theoretical and managerial implications of this study are discussed in the context of the tourism literature.

This research was designed to illuminate that the participation of students in physical education classes have the positive impact on the mental aspects by analyzing how the participation attitude has influence on physical self-concept. The objects of thi

본 연구는 생태관광 개발과 지속적인 발전에 있어 가장 중요한 요소 중의 하나인 주민참여 부분에 대한 연구로서 지역 생태관광 개발에 있어 우선 고려되어야 할 주민참여 방법과 선행 해결과제들을 조사 분석하였다. 조사는 국내 산촌지역으로 자연환경이 우수하고 접근성이 좋아 개발가능성이 높은 지역을 선정하여 현지 방문조사를 실시하였다. 장기 부재중인 주민을 제외하고 각 지역에 거주하고 있는 190명의 주민을 대상으로 조사 분석한 결과 지역주민들은 생태관광 개발에 대해 긍정적이며, 관광개발계획 수립단계부터 적극적인 참여를 원했다. 또한 생태관광 개발에 있어 가장 중요한 것은 자연환경보전을 전제로 한 지역경제 및 개인소득의 증대로서 이를 위해서는 가장 먼저 관련 법 제도적 정비와 함께 지역주민에 대한 교육이 선행되어야 한다고 나타났다.

목적: 본 연구의 목적은 노인의 생활체육 참여 정도의 지표인 참여여부, 참여빈도, 참여시간, 참여기간이 주관적 건강, 노화태도, 삶 만족에 미치는 영향을 확인하고, 생활체육 참여 정도, 주관적 건강, 노화태도, 삶 만족의 관계를 검증하는 것이다. 방법: 설문조사에 참여한 만 65세 이상 남녀 노인 166명의 자료를 분석하였다. 수집된 자료의 신뢰도 검사를 실시하고, 생활체육 참여여부에 따른 세 심리적 변인의 차이를 확인하기 위하여 평균 차이 검증을 수행하는 한편, 생활체육에 참여하고 있다고 응답한 109명의 자료를 대상으로 생활체육 참여빈도, 참여시간, 참여기간이 세 심리적 변인에 영향을 끼치는지 확인하기 위하여 다중회귀분석을 수행하였다. 또한, 경로분석을 수행하여 연구모형과 두 가지 대안모형의 모형 적합도를 비교하여 연구모형의 적절성을 확인한 후, 가정한 변인 간관계가 유의한지 확인하였다. 마지막으로 부트스트래핑을 수행하여 생활체육 참여기간과 삶 만족 사이에서의 주관적 건강과 노화태도의 매개효과와 생활체육 참여기간과 노화태도 사이에서의 주관적 건강의 매개효과를 확인하였다. 결과: 첫째, 주관적 건강 수준은 생활체육 참여 노인이 생활체육 비참여 노인보다 더 좋았지만, 노화태도와 삶 만족은 두 집단 간 유의한 차이가 없었다. 생활체육 참여 노인의 경우, 생활체육에 참여한 기간이 길수록 주관적 건강 수준이 더 좋고, 노화태도가 더 긍정적이고, 전반적인 삶 만족도가 더 높았지만, 생활체육 참여빈도와 참여시간은 세 종속변인에 유의한 영향을 끼치지 않았다. 둘째, 가정한 연구모형이 대안모형에 비해 더 적절하였으며, 각 변인의 관계는 가정과 일치하였다. 셋째, 생활체육 참여기간과 노화태도의 사이에서 주관적 건강의 간접효과는 유의하였다. 넷째, 생활체육 참여기간과 삶 만족의 사이에서 주관적 건강과 노화태도의 간접효과는 유의하지 않았다. 결론: 노인의 생활체육 참여 정도가 주관적 건강, 노화태도, 삶 만족에 미치는 영향을 확인하고, 생활체육 참여기간, 주관적 건강, 노화태도, 삶 만족의 관계를 규명하였다.