노인의 자아 존중감과 삶의 질과의 관계 연구 = (A) study on the realtionship between self-esteem and quality of life of the elderly

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is designed to provide basic data which are helpful for nursing intervention to encourage the adjustment of the old to the changeable society through identifying a relationship of self-esteem and consequence about their quality of life. For this study, 142 persons were selected from three centers for the elderly located in B dong, G city and questionnaire which contained 68 questions were distributed to them for 30 days from June 1st to 30st, 2001. The questions were composed of 10 items about general features, 10 items for measuring self-esteem and 44 items about quality of the life.
The results of this study are as follows:
1. As a result of analysing the questions about self-esteem, it is shown that the question with the highest point was "I think I am as much valuable as others" (3.40) and the question with the lowest was "I sometimes think I am not good" (2.90).
2. As a result of analysing the questions related to quality of their life, it is shown that the question with the highest point was " What do you think of your children these days ? " (3.59) and the question with lowest was " Do you think you are valuable these days ? "(2.63).
3. As a result of analysing self-esteem according to the general characteristics, there was a statistically signifiant difference in educational background and monthly income (P<0,05). By the educational background, the old people with college degrees showed 3.52, the highest score and by the monthly income, those who make more than 2 million won showed 3.20 (±0.30), the highest score.
4. As a result of analysing the quality of the life according to general characteristics, there were statistically significant difference in educational background, monthly income, possession of housing, kinds of sports and leisure(P<0.05). By the educational background, subjects with bachelors degrees or above showed 3.42, the highest score. Subjects who make 2 million won as monthly income showed 3.49, the highest score. Subjects who own their private houses and who enjoy golf showed 3.18 and 3.38 respectively.
5. The assumption of this study that " the higher the self-esteem of the old, the more satisfactory their life. " was supported (p<0.05, r=0.407). It is demonstrated that the people who have high self-esteem thought quality of their life as satisfactory.
6. By stepwise multiple regression to identify predictor of quality of life, monthly income, practice of sports and self -esteem were satisfically significant variable.
In conclusion, nursing services to encourage the old people to have positive attitude to their living and efforts to increase their monthly income and to practice sports regularly will help the elderly to feel the quality of their life as satisactory.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차 = ⅰ
• 표목차 = ⅲ
• Abstract = ⅳ
• Ⅰ. 서론 = 1
• A. 연구의 필요성 = 1
• B. 연구의 목적 = 4
• C. 용어의 정의 = 4
• Ⅱ. 문헌 고찰 = 5
• A. 노년기 = 5
• B. 자아존중감 = 7
• C. 삶의 질 = 10
• Ⅲ. 연구 방법 = 13
• A. 연구대상 = 13
• B. 연구도구 = 13
• C. 자료수집절차 = 14
• D. 자료처리 및 분석방법 = 14
• Ⅳ. 연구 결과 = 15
• A. 일반적 특성 = 15
• B. 자아존중감의 문항 분석 = 17
• C. 삶의 질 문항 분석 = 18
• D. 일반적 특성에 따른 자아존중감 정도 = 20
• E. 일반적 특성에 따른 삶의 질정도 = 22
• F. 대상자의 자아존중감과 삶의 질과의 상관관계 = 25
• G. 삶의 질 변수를 예측하기 위한 다단계 다중회귀분석 = 25
• Ⅴ. 고찰 = 26
• Ⅵ. 요약 및 결론 = 29
• 참고문헌 = 31
• 설문지 = 38