중년기 적응 연구에 대한 문헌 고찰

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The main purpose of this review is to investigate the current trend of research on the adjustment of Korean middle-aged men and women. To meet this ends, this paper reviews and analyzes existing 34 articles published from 1980 to June, 1994. The main focus of the analysis concerns the methodology, contents and results of those studies. The summary of the studies are as follows : 1. Research on the adjustment of Korean Mid-Life has taken up in the middle of the 1980`s in its full scale. In the early periods, the research mainly verified its relevance to the scoio-demographics variables. After the 1990`s it has mainly verified its relevance to the personality and value-variables, the stress-variables and the social-networks relation. 2. 32 out of 34 articles that this review analyzed used the survey research designs. They mainly use cross-sectional survey designs based on self-administered questionnaires whose subjects and sampling area are restricted to certain groups, especially women in Seoul. To generalize the results of research and verify theoretically, we need to develop and modify the scale that fits Korean situation, and apply to various research methods and organized research system. 3. Generally, there are conflicting pros(the crisis stage) and cons(the best stable stage) concerning the existence of middle-age. It has been turned out that one`s health condition and socio-psychological variables (the degree of family-relation satisfaction, the personality characteristic, the value, the social-network relation, and etc. ) exert more influence on the adjustment in mid-life than socio-demographic variables. Therefore, the further research must incorporate a survey research that approaches the subject not only from the negative point of view but from the positive perspective. In connection with this, we need to verify the various theoretical systems. We need to do interdisciplinary research and develop an educational program that prepares for accepting the turning point of mid-life positively.