사별노인의 재혼에 관한 연구 - 서울시 재혼노인의 성공사례를 중심으로 -

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of a married couple`s relationship and remarriage in old age and to help old people who want to be advised about their remarriage as a coping response of life for widowhood in old age. The subjects were 7 men and 4 women who remarried over 55 years old after bereavement residing in Seoul, and data were collected through interviews. The bereaved old people chose remarriage as a coping response of their loneliness. They understand and concede each other, and they maintain mental relations with their own children and keep minimum contact with children of a new spouse. It means they make efforts to minimize troubles and strain. And these old people are contented with their life reducing or removing loneliness before remarriage. So, the remarriage in old age can be regarded as a coping type for the old who became alone. And most of emotional problems are resolved by the remarriage of the old. Therefore we need to help the widowed elderly to overcome loneliness and to live a good life for the rest of their life by grasping or understanding their desires.