An Analysis of Social Role and Satisfaction of Korean Middle-Aged Women

차영란; 김기범; 전경숙

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An Analysis of Social Role and Satisfaction of Korean Middle-Aged Women

The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology / The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology, (P)1229-0726; (E)3058-2083

2007, v.12 no.3, pp.299-313

https://doi.org/10.18205/kpa.2007.12.3.003

& (2007). An Analysis of Social Role and Satisfaction of Korean Middle-Aged Women. The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology, 12(3), 299-313, https://doi.org/10.18205/kpa.2007.12.3.003

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The goal of this study was to analyze the relationship between social role and self-construction and between social role and life satisfaction through everydaylife slf-recoding data. A total of 38 middle-aged women was particiapted in this study. They were asked to report their everyday lives according to time, place, activity, role-definition, relationship, and satisfaction. The results showed that working women were conducting more roles than housewives. However, there were no significant differences of life satisfaction between working women and housewives and bewteen 40s and 50s. More specifically, 40s working women dissatisfied with their housework, whereas they were satistified with their work. This result indicated that working women were likely to have a burden of caring and nurturing their family members as well as working at working place. However, they reported that they satistified with family members to have dinner and watch TV after work. Regardless of their ages, most middle-aged women tended to have their own time for leasure, physical training, and reading in order to develop and integrate their own identities. Thus, well-defined identities were associated with well-being for women.

keywords: Middle-Aged Women, Social Role, Life Satisfaction, Self-Concept, Identity, Everyday Life, 중년여성, 사회적 역할, 행복, 삶의 만족, 자기정체감여자나이 40이면, 중년기에 접어들어 곧 늙게되고 젊음은 더 이상 찾아볼 수 없다는 인식은 동서양을 막론하고 보편적인 모양이다. 1900년만해도 평균수명은 49세에 불과했는데, 여성들은 자녀들이 출가하는 것을 볼만큼 오래(?) 살았다고 한다. 그러나, 오늘날 서구 문화권에서는 중년에 접어든 여성들이 나이드는 것에 대한 두려움을 갖게 되었고, 나이가 든 것에 대한 부정적인 고정관념들이 예술, Middle-Aged Women, Social Role, Life Satisfaction, Self-Concept, Identity, Everyday Life

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