水原地域 老人의 心理的, 社會的 健康狀態 硏究

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The rapidly increasing elderly population in Korea is causing mounting concerns about their health and well-being. The objective of this study is to see the characteristics of depression and the effects of depression on the social health status, tendency of health locus of control and self-esteem of elderly people living in the Suwon area of Korea. The randomly selected 137 elderly men and women were interviewed from the community elderly center. Zung's Self-rating Depression Scales was used to evaluate depression status, and data for social healthe status. Multidimensional Health Locus of Control(MHLC), and self-esteem were also collected with a set of questionnaire. The prevalence of depression was 18%(male) and 37%(female). In social health status, depressed males had poor relationships with spouse, friends, relatives and colleagues compared to non-depressed males, while depressed females had relatively poor relationships with friends, children and grandchildren compared to non-depressed females. Depressed males had relatively strong MHLC chance score compared to non-depressed males. Depressed group of both gender had low self-esteem. The results suggest that an elderly health improvement program should be aimed at improving psychological health, such as self-esteem.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서 론
• Ⅱ. 연구대상 및 방법
• Ⅲ. 연구결과 및 고찰
• Ⅳ. 결 론
• Ⅴ. 참고문헌
• ABSTRACT