Purpose: This study was a descriptive correlation to exactly understand aging, depression, self-esteem, life satisfaction, and the quality of life, clear the relationships among them up and offer preliminary information about the psychology of the eld...
Purpose: This study was a descriptive correlation to exactly understand aging, depression, self-esteem, life satisfaction, and the quality of life, clear the relationships among them up and offer preliminary information about the psychology of the elderly.
Methods: Date collection was 366 male and female persons who were over aged 65 years. The period of data collection was from November 5, 2007 to January 11, 2008.
Depending on the research purpose, by using SAS/PC, real numbers, percentage, average, standard deviation, Pearson's Correlation, Stepwise Multiple Regression, t-test, ANOVA, Duncan and the post verification were carried out.
Results: The survey data reveals the following;
1. The depression of the old is intermediate, life satisfaction is intermediate high, and quality of life is high.
2. The result of analyzing the correlation among depression, self-esteem, and life satisfaction is that there is correlation between depression and self-esteem, and life satisfaction, between self-esteem and the quality of life, and between life satisfaction and the quality of life.
3. Among many factors which have an effect on the quality of life, depression is the top, and the next is self-esteem, and then is age, and those are 66.9% of the whole.
Conclusion: Judging from above results, though the depression of the elderly is somewhat high, life satisfaction and the quality of life is in good condition. There are correlation among depression, self-esteem, life satisfaction, and quality of life. Therefore, the way of prevention and nursing intercession to promote the quality of life of the elderly should be considered in that depression is the top priority to quality of life.