Social psychological predictors of Sucessful aging in Korea

The purpose of this study was to find out the important social psychological factors of successful aging in Korean elderly. We assumed in this paper that two cardinal criteria of the successful aging would be both of physical health and subjective well-being. The main hypotheses of this study was that the important 12 social psychological factors would contributed to discriminate among the successful aging elderly from both of the average and the unsuccessful aging elderly. We collected the survey data from 1,826 elderly(mean age of 72.41 years old) through face to face interview in Seoul and Chun-cheon regional areas in Korea. The results of the discriminant analysis showed that 11 social psychological variables except the religious attitude contributed to discriminate among the successful aging elderly, average group and the unsuccessful aging elderly. The successful aging elderly were higher level of economic status, marital satisfaction, satisfaction with the offsprings, social support, fulfillment of social and self-esteem need, exercise, drinking alcohol and positive emotional experience in everyday life, but lower level of past illness, expectation of support from the offsprings and negetive emotional experience in everyday life. The result also revealed that at least 83.6% percentage of the exact classification hit to discriminate among the successful elderly, the average elderly and the unsuccessful aging elderly. The conceptional assumption about successful aging and the results of this study were discussed in terms of the previous studies performed in Korea and abroad and the suggestions for further study were also proposed.

keywords: Korean old people, Korean culture, physical health, subjective well-being, successful aging, social psychological variables., 한국노인, 성공노화, 신체건강, 주관안녕, 행복, 사회심리 변인 최근 한국사회에서 고령화가 급속하게 진행되고 있다. 유엔의 경제사회국이 2005년 2월 24일에 발표한 ‘세계 인구전망 2004’에 따르면 한국은 현재 연령의 중앙치가 35.1세 이지만 빠른 고령화로 인하여 2050년에는 53.9세에 이르러 세계에서 가장 노인이 많은 국가가 된다고 예측하였다. 현재 일본은 연령의 중앙치가 42.9세로 최고령 국가지만 2050년에 52.9세로 한국, Korean old people, Korean culture, physical health, subjective well-being, successful aging, social psychological variables.

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Vol.11 No.3

Social psychological predictors of Sucessful aging in Korea

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The Korean Journal of Health Psychology