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노승옥 ( ) - 신흥전문대학 간호과
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Abstract
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An objective assessment of the health status of Korean elderly in terms of the physical, mental -emotional and social aspects was made and their mutual relationships, especially the relationship between social role of elderlies and their mental -emotional health, were evaluated, in order to establish an effective nursing system in elderly care. A total of 404 people aged over 65 years in the municipal area of Seoul, among which 122 were male, were interviewed in accordance with the scheme developed by Choi et, al. (1990), and the data collected were analyzed by the statistcal program of SAS.
The subjects participated to the present investigation has relatively good physical health status, and their mental-emotional health status were also
The aize. sex, religion, education level, marital status aeki ianiily structure influenced the social role of the elderlies. The age group below 75 years old showed significantly high social role score compared to the oldee group aged over 75 years, and significant differences in the roles of spouse, community member and religeous duty were noticed between the age g,oult. However, in contrast to the cases of Western elderlies, no significant changes in the role of grand lNuents by age were found in this study.
The malt, subjects showed higher social role score compared it) the female, and had lower grand parent role than female, which was consistent with the common sense of Korean. Among the types of religion, the highest social role score was marked with the Protestant and Catholic, followed by Confucian and Buddihsl", and then no religion. Those having spouse sliowed significantly higher social health score than those leg single, they also showed significant difference in community membership.
In the family structure, those who live with spouse and children marked the highest social role score, and those who live with married children or who live alone belonged to low score group. Those who live with only spouse or who live alone showed significant ly low score for the roles of grand parent and parent . In case of the elderly who left single, the score; decreased in the order of living with unmarried children, living with married children and living alone.
The roles of parent or grand parent contributed most positively to the social role of the Korean elderlies, and the relationship with relatives and friends and the community activity showed also high correlation coefficient with the mental -emotional health. These results confirmed the acitivity theory of Maddox and the continuity theory of Neugarten for the social role of elderly.
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KeyWords
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사회적 역할
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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