노인의 연령정체감이 실존적 정체감과 심리적 안녕감에 미치는 영향 = Influence of Age-Identity on Existential Identity and Psychological Well-Being of the Elderly

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was conducted to explore the relationships between the elderly’s existential identity and psychologicalwell-being in accordance with the elderly’s age-identity so as to improve the quality of life in the elderly withprolonged lives. The data were collected from respondents who were more than 60 years in age who live incity Suncheon. The statistics used for the data analysis were reliability, frequency, percentage, mean, standarddeviation, one way analysis of variance, and multiple regression. The results of this study were as follows:(1) A majority of the elderly (49.8%) acknowledged psychological age as actual age. (2) The degrees of theelderly’s existential identity was 54.90, while the degree of the elderly’s psychological well-being was 33.07.
(3) The elderly’s existential identity level was significantly affected by economic state, spouse, age-identity,monthly living expenses, household, religion, career, age, and health state. Further, the elderly’s psychologicalwell-being level was significantly affected by existential identity, economic state, spouse, health state, ageidentity,monthly living expenses, household, education, career, and age. (4) The variables that affect the elderly’sexistential identity were age-identity, economic state, health state, religion, monthly living expenses, and career,indicating an explanatory power of 38%. Moreover the variables that affect the elderly’s psychological wellbeingwere existential identity, age-identity, economic state, health state, and monthly living expenses, explainingapproximately 55% of the total variance.

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