노인의 자원봉사활동이 생활만족도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구 = A Study on Effect of Older people's Voluntary Activities on Life Satisfaction

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Voluntary activities have been suggested as a way to fill up older people's lost role at senescence in the aspects that they act as a source of meaningful personal activities to older people and provide an opportunity for them to realize actually the social relation and individual usefulness. However, compared to discussion on positive effect of voluntary activities, insufficient studies to prove positively such effect have been performed and their results have not been consistent. In the case of Korea, as the concern about voluntary activities of old people is on the point of beginning, in fact, there are few studies on the effect of older people's voluntary activities on life satisfaction. But, voluntary activities have a significant meaning not only as a method to overcome several losses experienced at senescence but also as a counterplan of role for old people, especially Korean older people whose employment or other social participation has been extremely limited.
For that reason, this study attempted to investigate whether voluntary activities of older people affect their life satisfaction, and the degrees of reward and family support for such activities.
In order to achieve the objectives, questionnaire was conducted for 151 elderly volunteers and 147 elderly non-volunteers. To begin with, for two groups including elderly volunteers and elderly non-volunteers, t-test and χ^2 test were carried out, in order to examine whether the correlation exists between their general features (including sex, age, educational background, economic status, health status, martial status and religion) and life satisfaction. Then, multiple regression analysis was conducted to identify whether participation in voluntary activities affects life satisfaction, under the condition the influence of the general variables is controlled. Next, only for elderly volunteers, multiple regression analysis was performed to investigate whether volunteering reward and family support have influence upon life satisfaction.
The results of this study are as follows;
First, as a result of examining differences between general features of elderly volunteers and those of elderly non-volunteers, compared to elderly non-volunteers, elderly volunteers had the following features; the males outnumbered the females, lower age, higher educational background, healthier, cohabitation with spouse, living with spouse or offspring, closer family relationship, more sufficient pocket money and higher satisfaction at his or her pocket status.
Second, elderly volunteers' life satisfaction was higher than that of elderly non-volunteers and such difference was significant under the condition the influence of the general variables was controlled.
Third, elderly volunteers recognized generally volunteering reward at high level, even in all the subordinate areas of reward such as experiences, social responsibility, social contact, social acknowledgement and achievement. Also, they thought that the family support was above the median level.
Finally, as a result of performing multiple regression analysis to investigate whether volunteering reward and family support affect elderly volunteers' life satisfaction, the volunteering reward affected significantly their life satisfaction and the family support affected insignificantly that.
Based on the above-mentioned results, it could be concluded that elderly volunteers had higher life satisfaction than that of elderly non-volunteers, under the condition the influence of general variables was controlled. And, the result that volunteering reward affects life satisfaction suggests that volunteering reward is very important to elderly volunteers and therefore, social and political support should be formed so that elderly volunteers obtain more sufficient reward.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차
• I. 서론 = 1
• 1. 문제제기 및 연구목적 = 1
• 2. 연구의 범위 = 3
• 3. 연구의 한계 = 4
• II. 이론적 배경 = 5
• 1. 노인 자원봉사활동 의의와 필요성 = 5
• 2. 노인 자원봉사활동 보상 및 가족지지 = 8
• 3. 노인 생활만족도 = 10
• 4. 선행연구 고찰 = 19
• III. 조사방법 = 22
• 1. 조사대상 및 자료수집 = 22
• 2. 측정도구의 구성 = 23
• 3. 자료분석방법 = 25
• IV. 조사결과 = 26
• 1. 자원봉사활동 참여여부에 따른 일반적 특성 = 26
• 2. 자원봉사활동 참여여부가 생활만족도에 미치는 영향 = 33
• 3. 자원봉사활동 보상과 가족지지의 정도 및 이들이 생활만족도에 미치는 영향 = 37
• V. 결론 및 제언 = 43
• 참고문헌 = 47
• ABSTRACT = 51
• 부록 = 54