중년기 여성의 스트레스 생활사건 및 자아개념과 우울과의 관계 = Relations of Stressful life events, Self concept and Depression in Middle aged women

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to grasp the life-adaptation elements of middle aged women occupy an important position in our society and to provide data which helps to solve the problems they are facing by researching the kinds of stressful life events they experience, how much stress they feel, how they feel about their self-concept, how much depression they experience and the cause and effect relations of these variables.
The subjects were 447 women between the ages of 40 to 59 years old living in Taegu.
The data was analyzed with the frequency, percentage, correlation, multiple regression and path analysis using the SPSS PC+ program.
Major results from the study are summarized as follows :
1. The seriousness of stress of middle aged women was not that high, and the number one cause of their stress was their children's exams and schooling followed by health problems, inflication or disagreements among family members.
Their self-concept score was higher than average, where as depression was marked lower. Middle aged women, however, do seem to experience depression.
2. After researching how stressful life events and self-concept effect depression and what the cause and effect relations are, it was found that depression was influenced by the husband's education level, marital life, success or achievement, religious problems, health problem and self-concept.
After researching the cause and effect relations of depression, it was found that self-concept was the most influential. The wife's education, the monthly income of the family, infliction or disagreements among family members, and health problems indirectly influenced it through self-concept. Health problems was the variable which had direct and indirect influence on depression. That is to say, it is found that the lower the depression is, the more the monthly income is, the lower the stress level is by infliction or disagreements among family members and health problems, the higher self-concept is.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Abstract
• Ⅰ. 서론
• Ⅱ. 이론적 배경
• Ⅲ. 연구방법
• Ⅳ. 연구결과 및 논의
• Ⅴ. 결론 및 제언
• 참고문헌