육아휴직에 관한 국내 연구 동향 분석(2000년~2021년)

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study was to analyze the trends of domestic research studies on parental leave. Methods For the purpose, this study collected a total of 100 journal articles and dissertations on parental leave published from 2000 to 2021, and then analyzed them focusing on the published year, source, academic field, research theme, research participants’ personal information(gender and occupation), types of research methods, data collection and data analysis method, and relevant variables. Results The results are as follows. First, the research studies on parental leave started to increase in 2011- 2015, and then have increased largely since 2016. Second, both journal articles and dissertations showed the similar percentages. Third, the most researches were found in the field of social welfare, among journal articles. Fourth, there were lots of research studies on the ease of use of the parental leave system. Fifth, regarding personal information of the research participants, there were research studies with women more than those with men, and, there were research studies with various occupations more than those with a single occupation without separating occupations. Sixth, there were quantitative research studies a bit more than qualitative research studies as a research method. Seventh, the survey took up more than half of quantitative research studies while the interview method was the most used for qualitative research studies. Eighth, In case of data analysis method, the quantitative researches used the most mixed analysis while the qualitative researches used the most case analysis. Ninth, in case of independent variables, there were the most research studies on the relation with personal characteristics while in case of dependent variables, there were the most researches on the relation with the institutional characteristics. Conclusions These main results were discussed and the implications were provided for the further direction of domestic researches on parental leave.