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Verification of Spiritual Mediation and Control Effects in the Relationship between Death Anxiety and Meaning of Life: Focused on the Baby Boomers

죽음불안과 삶의 의미의 관계에서 영성의 매개 및 조절효과 검증: 베이비부머를 중심으로

  • 길태영 (충남대학교 농업과학연구소) ;
  • 류한수 (우송대학교 사회복지.아동학부)
  • Received : 2018.05.29
  • Accepted : 2018.07.06
  • Published : 2018.07.28
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of the spiritual mediating and the control effects of these between the death anxiety and meaning of life in baby boomers. The data for the analysis were collected for baby boomers born in A City from 1955 to 1963 and used a total of 500 data for the final analysis. For the analysis method, SPSS 21.0 was used for descriptive statistics analysis, correlation analysis for investigate correlation between variables, mediating regression analysis for each variable hypothesis test, and control effect of spirituality. We conducted a hierarchical regression analysis to examine the correlation between the two variables. The analysis results are as follows. First, we found that anxiety of death has a significantly effect on the meaning of life. Second, spirituality mediation has a significantly positive effect on the meaning of life. Third, the mediating effect of spirituality was proved in the relationship between death anxiety and meaning of life, and the control effect of spirituality was significant in the relation of death anxiety and meaning of life. As a result of these, it is demonstrating that the meaning of life can be enhanced by strengthening spirituality according to the degree of death anxiety in baby boomers. It shows a way to reduce or eliminate death anxiety that affects the meaning of life and strengthen spirituality.

본 연구의 목적은 베이비부머의 죽음불안과 삶의 의미의 인과관계에서 이들 간 영성의 매개효과와 조절효과를 검증하는 것이다. 분석을 위한 연구 자료는 A시에 거주하는 1955년부터 1963년까지 출생한 베이비 부머를 대상으로 수집되었으며, 최종 분석에 총 500명의 자료를 사용하였다. 분석방법은 SPSS 21.0을 이용하여 일반적 특성을 알아보기 위한 기술통계분석, 변인 간 상관관계를 알아보기 위한 상관관계분석, 각 변인 간 가설검증을 위한 매개회귀분석, 영성의 조절효과를 알아보기 위해 위계적 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 죽음불안이 삶의 의미에 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 죽음불안과 삶의 의미의 관계에서 영성의 매개효과가 입증되었으며, 조절효과 분석을 통해 죽음불안과 삶의 의미의 관계에서 영성의 조절효과가 유의하게 나타났다. 이러한 결과 베이비부머의 죽음불안 수준에 따라 영성을 강화시킴으로써 삶의 의미를 더욱 높일 수 있음을 나타내는 것으로, 이들의 삶의 의미에 영향을 미치는 죽음불안을 감소 또는 해소하고, 영성을 강화할 수 있는 방안을 모색하였다.

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