본 연구에서는 은퇴 스트레스가 우울에 미치는 영향을 알아보고 이와 함께 결혼만족도의 매개효과를 분석하였다. 연구대상자는 은퇴한 남자 노인 220명이었으며 은퇴 스트레스 척도, 노인 우울 척도(GDSSF), 결혼만족도 척도(K-MSI)를 사용하여 설문을 실시하였다. 본 연구를 위해 은퇴만족도가 우울증상을 매개로 결혼만족도로 이어지는 경로를 검증한 Higginbottom, Barling과 Kelloway(1993)의 모형검증 결과를 기초로 하여 은퇴 스트레스, 우울, 결혼만족도의 관계를 검증하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 은퇴 노인에서 인구통계학적 변인, 은퇴 변인, 은퇴 스트레스와 결혼만족도가 우울에 미치는 영향은 어떠한지 알아보기 위해 위계적 회귀분석을 실시한 결과, 은퇴 스트레스와 결혼만족도는 우울을 27% 설명하는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 결혼만족도의 매개효과를 확인하기 위해서 결혼만족도의 무효과모형, 완전매개모형, 부분매개모형을 비교해본 결과, 부분매개모형이 다른 모형에 비해 더 좋은 적합도를 보였다. 셋째, 결혼만족도의 부분매개모형의 경로를 살펴본 결과, 은퇴 전 직업불만족도, 은퇴대비 계획수립 정도, 은퇴 후 생활비 충분성의 은퇴 변인은 직접적인 경로로 은퇴 스트레스에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 은퇴 스트레스는 직접적인 경로로 우울에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며 은퇴 스트레스는 결혼만족도를 매개로 우울에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 은퇴 스트레스가 우울에 영향을 미치는 가운데 결혼만족도는 이들 사이에서 부분매개 역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 시사점과 제한점, 추후 연구 방향을 논의하였다.
The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of marital satisfaction on relationship that retirement stress have an effect on depression among the retree. The subjects were composed of 220 retired older men. For the study, the survey was carried out using retirement stress scale, the Korean Marital Satisfaction Inventory scale, Geriatric Depression scale. The mediating effect was investigated based on the result of Higginbottom, Barling, & Kelloway(1993)'s structural equation model that the partial mediating effect of depression in relation to retirement satisfaction and marital satisfaction. The results of the study are as follows. First, according to the results of the effects of demographical variables, retirement variables, retirement stress, marital satisfaction on depression, hierarchical regression revealed that retirement stress and marital satisfaction explained 27% of total variables in the retired older men. Second, The partial mediational model of marital satisfaction showed better fit indices than alternative models. Third, the paths of partial mediational model indicated that career dissatisfaction of pre-retirement, plan of retirement preparation, living expenses' sufficiency of post-retirement were significant variables among retirement variables that explained retirement stress. And retirement stress was significant which explained depression. Moreover, marital satisfaction mediated the relationship between retirement stress and depression. Therefore, the partial mediating effect of marital satisfaction was examined on relationship that retirement stress have an effect on depression. The suggestions and the limitations of this study and the directions of future study were discussed.
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