중년기 여성의 위기감 극복을 위한 사회관계망에 관한 연구 = (A) Study on the Social Network to Weather the Crisis of a Middle-aged Woman

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

A middle-aged woman may have a sense of impending crisis due to psychological sense of impending crisis which she usually feel as she gets older, physical changes following the climacteric and the menopause, the estrangement and indifference from her husband or children, and a feeling of helplessness and weariness of her role as a woman. In the aspect that the social network would decrease the influence of the mental stress and would promote psychological and physical health, the network is significant to reduce the sense of impending crisis of a middle-aged woman.
In this research, the object shall be to observe the sense of impending crisis of middle-age woman according to general tendency and personal factors, to investigate the relevancy of social network about weathering the sense of impending crisis of middle-age woman, and to provide basic data which is helpful to improve one's life as well as their that of family's.
In positive research, with the index of the sense of impending crisis and social network, the data related to the sense of impending crisis of middle-age women have been gathered from middle-aged(40-59 year old) women who have the nuclear family, among them 100 women are living in DaeJeon, having their job, and 100 women are living in Daejon but do not have jobs. With the collected data, the average and standard deviation have been used to grasp the overall tendency of the sense of impending crisis and social network. To show the difference of the sense of impending crisis according to social network, the dispersion analysis and the verification were used.
The results about this are as follows.
It showed that the general tendency of the sense of impending crisis for middle-aged women was more or less high. To see personal features, it showed that older women had higher tendency of the sense of impending crisis and it is believed that this phenomenon is due to the changes of their roles in their family, as they are physically and mentally on the decline .
The social network of middle-aged women showed generally high approval rating, and at all types, the approval rating of women' in-laws was least low and the approval ratings of their non-kinship's, that is, friends', neighbors', and other groups' appeared to be high. And the approval rating of woman's native home, which is informal and social, appeared to be high, and it tells that they do not receive supports from their husbands homes, which have formal and obligatory characters. But because the material assistances from their husbands homes not only ease the burden of their houseworks, but also can be helpful to them in an emergency so that they can maintain stability of their lives and reduce the sense of impending crisis.
When there was much support from friends, there was less sense of impending crisis. This means that the friends who had been experiencing the crisis as people of the same generation with the middle-aged woman are the source of social network which is necessary to reduce the sense of impending crisis.
It can be guessed that supports from neighbors do not seem to exert any influence upon them in the modern society where the individualization and the anonymity have increased. Other groups appeared to be helpful to reduce the sense of crisis from the aspect that they can foster women' pride and accomplishment
The results of this research show that social network have a great influence on the middle-aged women who have a sense of impending crisis according to the change of their roles caused by the development of the industrialization and the birth control.
Therefore, to improve the quality of the middle-aged women's lives and their family members', and to weather the crisis peacefully, the middle-aged women should be able to receive comfort and recognition from many social network by developing leisure programs which enable them to be with social network and by establishing social welfare organs.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차 = ⅰ
• 제1장 서론 = 1
• 제1절 연구의 필요성 및 목적 = 1
• 제2절 연구의 제한점 = 5
• 제2장 이론적 배경 = 6
• 제1절 중년기 여성의 위기감 = 6
• 1. 중년기의 구분과 위기론 = 6
• 2. 중년기 여성의 특성 = 12
• 3. 중년기 여성의 위기감에 영향을 미치는 요인 = 16
• 제2절 사회관계망과 중년기 여성의 위기감 = 22
• 1. 사회관계망 = 22
• 2. 사회관계망과 중년기 여성의 위기감 = 27
• 제3장 조사방법 = 32
• 제1절 조사대상 = 32
• 제2절 조사도구 = 32
• 제3절 자료수집 및 분석방법 = 34
• 제4장 조사결과 = 35
• 제1절 조사대상자의 일반적 특성 = 35
• 제2절 중년기 여성의 위기감 = 37
• 1. 중년기 여성의 위기감의 전반적인 경향 = 37
• 2. 개인적 특성에 따른 중년기 여성의 위기감 = 39
• 제3절 사회관계망 지지에 따른 중년기 여성의 위기감 = 50
• 제5장 결론 및 제언 = 62
• 참고문헌 = 66
• ABSTRACT = 71
• 설문지 = 75