주부우울에 영향을 미치는 개인 및 가족관계 변인 - 청소년 자녀가 있는 도시 중산층 전업주부를 중심으로 - = Individual and Family Relational Factors Associated with Housewives' Depression

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For the matritally discordant individual, the marital relationship may play a powerful role in the development and maintenance of depression as well as having potential utility in promoting recovery. Since 1980s, another set of models of depression have received increasing attention, namely the marital discord model of depression. Therefore, the purpose of this study were to examine the effect of individual and family relational variables on housewives` depression based on marital discord model as a theoretical framework. The major findings were as follows ; 1. To measure of depression using the CES-D(the center for epidemiologic studies depression scale), the degree of wives` depression was relatively higher than that of other research findings. This result shows that many of them having been depressed in the context of their marital relationships. And, when to set of 21 point to optimal cut-off score, 24.7% of wives reported having been clinical depression. 2. As for the related variables, educational degree, number of chldren, economic hardship, self-esteem, psychological-emotional equity, family cohesion turned out to be significant in womens` depression. It implies that wives`s depression can be decreased by enriching self-esteem and any other psychological-emotional relationship in their family. Accordingly, various educational program for that should be prepared and developed. 3. The strongest predictors of this model were, in descending order, (1) self-esteem, (2) family cohesion, (3) economic hardship, (4) psychological-emotional equity, (5) educational degree, and (6) number of children. The hierarchical regression yielded the result that individual variables were more influenced by socio-demographic and family relational variables. The model suggested that at least two major and interacting risk factor domains, i.e., individual and family relational domains, are needed to understand the etiology of housewives` depression.