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The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology

The Effect of Spirituality on Happiness and Depression of Women in Midlife

Abstract

The purpose of the current study was to examine the effect of spiritual, relational, and demographic factors on happiness and depression of Korean married women in midlife. 238 middle aged women who were between the ages 40 to 64 living in Seoul and Incheon were surveyed to determine the influence of spiritual relational of transcendence, meaning in life, compassion, inner resources, awareness, and connectedness, demographic factors of health, education, economic status, average monthly income, marital status, children, job, and religion, and relational factors of marriage satisfaction and closeness with children. Hierarchical regression was used to determine the influence of various factors on happiness and depression. Finding suggest that health, marriage satisfaction, spiritual factors of inner resources and transcendence significantly predicted happiness whereas health, average monthly income, religion significantly predicted depression. In particular spiritual factors were significant predictor for happiness but religion was a significant predictor for depression. Based on the results, the implication, interventions, limitations and future directions for research were discussed concerning mental health of women in midlife.

keywords
middle age women, spirituality, happiness, depression, 중년여성, 영성, 행복, 우울

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