• 한국노년학
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.309-327
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• 2009

This research reviewed on the effect of elderly employment promotion project to their self-esteem and life satisfaction and got positive verification about the effectiveness of the project. The survey was conducted on 389 elderly people in Suncheon City. Some were participants on the project and others were not. SPSS Win 10.0 program was used for data analysis, and t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis, multiple regression were conducted. The results are as follows. First, elderly people who participated in the employment project had higher self-esteem and life satisfaction compare to those who did not participated in the project. Second, the job for elderly people had the most positive effect on elderly people to increase self-esteem and life satisfaction, and age, education background, income, family, and health were followed by. Third, participation on the employment for elderly was the highest correlation variable in self-esteem and life satisfaction, and health, education background, marriage status, residence type, living expense per month, economic status, and housing had significant correlations. Fourth, variables such as participation on job, education background, economic status, and age explained 32% of self-esteem, and 48% of life satisfaction. In order to increase self-esteem and life satisfaction of elderly people, we need to realize the importance of employment for elderly people, and promote projects that let elderly people to participate in job.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.189-213
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• 2013

The purpose of this work is to explore different types of intergenerational relationships in the later lives of old retirees. This will be done according to the eligibility of public pension and the old age social security system so that the factors affecting intergenerational relationships can be analyzed, and to propose a plan to improve social adaptation in later life. The data used in this work are the Fourth basic survey data of the 2011 Korea Retirement and Income Study. The study subjects of this work were 2,435 retirees over age 65 who had children. In this study, latent class analysis and logistic regression analysis were conducted to classify types of intergenerational relationships and to analyze the influence of relevant factors. As a result of the analysis, some of those in the group were eligible for public pension, and the ones who were not were classified into three types: the closely-living-together type, the separate-living-contact type, and the estrangement type. In the group not eligible for public pension, it was found that age, spouse, number of children, economic factors, and level of health satisfaction gave significant power to intergenerational relationships. In the group eligible for public pension, it was found that age, income and net assets, ADL(Activities of Daily Living), whether there was an IADL(Instrumental Activities of Daily Living) spouse, and number of children affected types of intergenerational relationships; Socio-demographic factors, economic factors, and healthy factors became significant variables according to the classified types of intergenerational relationship. Based on the study results, this work suggested such necessities to lay the foundation for an elderly welfare system for social adaptation in later life, This includes the offering of programs for retirement preparation, the use of family and local society resources, and expansion of the opportunity to participate in social activities.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.77-89
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• 2021

This study uses the life course perspective to analyze the health effects of care transition types on elderly persons who care for their spouses. To this end, the care transition types were divided into ① non-care→non-care, ② non-care→care, ③ care→care, and ④ care→non-care, and health was defined as physical health and the absence of depression. The study used the second through sixth datasets(2008-2016) from the Korea Longitudinal Study of Aging. This resulted in 10,199 observations from 3,987 persons, which were analyzed as a panel analysis model using the STATA16.0 program. The analysis found that physical health was lower in the non-care→care and care→non-care transition types than in the non-care→non-care type. Depression increased in the non-care→care and care→care types. These results suggest that practical and social measures are needed to improve physical health and depression in the elderly who are providing care for their spouses.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.133-148
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• 2024

The purpose of this study was to verify the influence of stress upon life satisfaction and the mediating effects of leisure activities participation in terms of this relationship. The results of this study are as follows. First, out of the elderly stress, the family stress, economic stress and health issues stress had a significant negative effect on life satisfaction. Second, out of the elderly stress, the family stress, economic stress and health issues stress had a significant negative effect on leisure activities participation. Third, the leisure activities participation had a meaningful positive impact on life satisfaction. Lastly, the leisure activities participation appeared to have a significant mediation effect in the influential relationship between elderly stress and life satisfaction. Through the results of this study, the leisure activities participation was indicated to mediate the influential relationship between elderly stress and life satisfaction, thereby having been able to be confirmed significance as alternative resource. Hence, the elderly's leisure activities participation alleviates a negative impact on stress, thereby seeming to be likely capable of being used as an intervention measure to improve elderly people's life satisfaction.

• Human Ecology Research
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• v.61 no.4
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• pp.615-633
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• 2023

This study aimed to examine the actor and partner effects of marital satisfaction on life satisfaction in middle-aged and older couples via their health behavior and health. The study participants included a total of 2,108 couples, aged 57 and over, from the eighth wave of data from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA). The marital satisfaction, health behavior, health, and life satisfaction of the husbands and wives were measured to conduct the analysis. This analysis was conducted based on the Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Model (APIMeM) with the bootstrapping technique being used as the mediating effect. The results indicated that there were significant actor and partner direct and indirect effects when it comes to the relationship between the participants' marital satisfaction and their own life satisfaction, mediated by health behavior and health. However, no significant influences regarding the health of the participants on the life satisfaction of their spouses were found. These results suggest that it is important for middle-aged and older couples to improve their marital relationships in order to promote the health and life satisfaction of both parties. Doing so will help husbands and wives lead healthier lifestyles based on their positive relationships.

• 한국노년학
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.305-323
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• 2019

In recognition of the increasing social attention paid to the notion of how to die well, this study explored what it is that middle-aged and older Koreans think of as "dying well." Specifically, it was aimed at classifying the perceptions people middle-aged and older have regarding dying well. To this end, we used data from the National Survey on Well-Dying, which was conducted in 2018 by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, and employed Latent Class Analysis. The demographic characteristics of each of the classified subgroups were identified through technical statistics. The types identified were multilayered depending on the imminence of death, perspectives of the last stages before dying, and the meaning of death in the context of social relationships. These types differed according to gender and subjective health conditions. Based on our findings in this study, we put forward policy suggestions about awareness improvement of personal and social levels, promoting on comprehensive death preparation, providing a system to reduce the cost of medical and nursing expense at the end of one's life, promoting of the right to self-determination regarding death, raising social attention to groups that are least prepared for dying well.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.642-651
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• 2017

This study aimed to examine the changes in the health status, social network and satisfaction of caregivers as a result of caregiving using a structural equation model. As a result, it was found that caregiving increased the level of depression and decreased the subjective health status in both men and women. The social network and satisfaction were found to differ according to gender. For the women caregivers, caregiving affected their subjective health status and depression. In the case of the men caregivers, the total effect of caregiving on their subjective health was 1.087(p<.05), while the indirect effect was 0.546(p<.05). Also, caregiving affected the subjective health status of the male caregivers through the functional family network as a mediating factor(0.42, p<.01). The results suggest the necessity to take these gender differences into consideration when discussing the health of caregivers. Also, the functional family network needs to be strengthened to prevent the deterioration of the health status of male caregivers.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.219-228
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• 2018

This study examines the influence of smartphone use in old age on satisfaction with relationships with spouse, children and social acquaintances among Korean older adults. Data on older adults aged 60 and over, who live in Seoul, was collected through a questionnaire survey and 674 cases were analyzed. The effects of smartphone use on satisfaction with these three types of inter-personal relationships was tested using a multiple regression analysis, controlling for sex, age, marital status, education, employment status, income and health. The results showed that the smartphone use of older adults did not affect spouse relationship satisfaction, but positively affected both children relationship satisfaction and satisfaction with social acquaintance relationship in old age. This suggests that the positive effects of smartphone use on inter-personal relationships in old age work only to improve relationships with children and social acquaintances, but not to enhance the relationship with one's spouse. This study implies that practical efforts to enhance the smartphone use and the level of informatization among older adults are needed to improve the inter-personal relationships and quality of life in old age.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.35-50
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• 1996

This paper is a review and assessment of 1122 articles on families in later life from 5 journals published during 1980 and 1995. theoretical and methodological issues family relationships in later life social support network caregiving attitudes and stress life satisfaction and stress of the aged and welfare system for the aged are the major areas examined. The review indicates that this area of research in quantity has increased rapidly since 195. Relationships between aged parents and their adult children focusing on caregiving attitudes behavior and stresses for supporting their parents among the children and adjustment/life satisfaction of the aged are dominantly investigated. However most of the research are non-theoretical and descriptive in nature and the influences of socio-economic variables such as sex health economic status and educational level on dependent variables are widely investigated. Future research questions and issues under the sub-ares of families in lat r life is provided. Further directions and suggestions for future research works on families in later life in general are provided with particular emphasis on conceptual and methodological issues.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.290-300
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• 2013

The purpose of this research is to examine the influence to physical health status, economic status, family support, social support and self-esteem which affects to solve depression, and give basic information for developing a program to prevent the aged people gloominess and a way to solve that gloominess. This surveying study was undertaken through personal interview way for 357 aged people who were in the elder's meeting hall, living in elderly welfare institude, or home near Gumi, Gimcheon, and Chilgok regions. For data analysis, SPSS/PC 18.0 and AMOS 18.0 program for frequency analysis, First, In the reason of depression by general distinctive quality, there was a significant difference in sex'educational background'existance of a spouse of the condition of living-together, and personal health condition. Second, affecting factors to religious life were economic condition, family support, and self-esteem. Third, the most serious factor that enhanced depression was physical health. Fourth, It appeared as higher attendence of indivisuals about religion means decrease of the depression. When these result reviewed, to control the depression of aged people, it is necessary to develop and conduct a total program that can detect and manage depression early through measuring the physical health, family support, social support and self-esteem. Especially, participation of religious life is considered to ameliorate the depression of aged people and help them live a good senescence.