The Korean Journal of Community Living Science (한국지역사회생활과학회지)

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Study on Variables Affecting Rural Elderly's Self Efficacy: Focused on Mediating Effect of Social Capital

농촌노인의 자기효능감에 영향을 미치는 요인: 사회적 자본의 매개효과를 중심으로

  • Oh, Young Eun (Dept. of Welfare Policy, Gwangju Welfare Foundation) ;
  • Lee, Jeonghwa (Dept. of Family Environment & Welfare, Chonnam National University, Research Institute for Human Ecology)
  • Received : 2017.10.10
  • Accepted : 2017.11.15
  • Published : 2017.11.30
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Abstract

The rural elderly population has social capital based on regionalism and kinship, which acts as a positive function in terms of their self-efficacy. Self-efficacy refers to the belief in one's own abilities. In general, elderly people with high self-efficacy maintain a healthy life and age successfully. This study examines how the rural elderly population perceive their self-efficacy and social capital and analyzes the role of social capital as a mediating variable. Social capital consists of 4 aspects; trust, norms, network and participation. For this study, data were gathered from 344 rural elderly people aged 60 years and over. The results of this study were as follows. According to the analysis of the structure equation modeling effect, the direct effect of subjective health status on self-efficacy, the indirect effect of the parameters of norms and the total effect were all statistically significant. Second, the direct effect of adult children's support on self-efficacy was significant, and the indirect effects of the parameters of trust, norms and total effect were all statistically significant. This study confirmed that social capital has a mediating effect on the relationship among the subjective health status of the rural elderly, adult children's support and self-efficacy. Furthermore, social capital had a positive impact on the self-efficacy of the rural elderly. Based on these results, a policy for making use of the social capital of the rural elderly should be developed.

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