한국인의 전생에 대한 태도와 전생 관련 경험 정도에 대한 조사 연구 = A Survey on Koreans' Attitude Toward Past - life and Experiences Related to Past - life

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article is dealt with the Koreans' attitude toward past-life and their experiences related to past-life. Currently the issue of past-life has been raised widely in our society. This trend is also happening in the western world. The problem is whether it can be merged into the academic society in general, counseling and psychotherapy circle in particular.
The subjects for this survey were a total of 800 males and females collected in the large metropolitan cities of Seoul, Pusan, Kwangju, and Ulsan, and other small cities. However, only 551 citizens were statistically analyzed as reliable results. This researcher developed an instrument for surveying after a couple of pilot field tests. The name of the instrument was A Survey on Awareness of Past-Life.
The results of this survey were as below:
1. The most frequently reminded word when it comes to the past-life in Korea is reincarnation.
2. The most frequently felt emotions by Koreans are being ........... and curious.
3. About half percentage of Koreans believe there is past-life, and more females have that belief than males.
4. About half percentage of Koreans are interested in the past-life. More females show those concerns into the past-life than males. The biggest reason for those interests are curiosity and knowledge of past-life for self-understanding.
5. About half percentage of Koreans are interested in their own past-lives. It is more widespread in females rather than in males. Their main reason is past-life e association with the current life.
6. Most people perceive the influence of knowledge of their own past-lives positively.
7. The major way of experiencing the past-life is hypnosis. However, the proportion is low.
8. The larger part of Koreans sees the knowledge and belief about the past-life positively in terms of influencing in society.
9. About one fourth of Koreans needs training in past-life.