ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

초록

The purpose of this research is to figure out how wisdom of the elderly relates to successful aging and life satisfaction, and to identify how much the wisdom of the elderly explain its successful aging and life satisfaction, so therefore, therapeutic interventions can be put in to action to help the elderly counselling. For the reason that, from October, 5th 2015, for about two weeks, this research used the total of 320 surveys that were distributed mainly to region like Gyeonggi, and Incheon’s elderly welfare and religious organizations towards our final analysis. This research used the SPSS 18.0 program and to find out the differences between the successful aging and life satisfaction depending on the individual factors of the elderly’s wisdom, we conducted the t verification. In addition, to know what kind of significant effect on life satisfaction and successful that is carried out by the wisdom of the elderly, this research used a simple regression analysis and stepwise multiple regression analysis to come out with these results. Firstly, personal demographic variables shown the difference between wisdom of a women, as with religion, as with a job, the higher the economic level it showed the higher wisdom scores for the elderly. Secondly, the higher the wisdom of the elderly was, they were more aware of their aging successfully, meaning higher life satisfaction. Lastly, the wisdom of the elderly explained 68% of their successful aging and 17.2% of their life satisfaction. According to these results, its proves that wisdom of the elderly do impact their successful aging and their life satisfaction and lays the basis for their wisdom to integrated look into their own lives to take advantage in consulting and training scenes

키워드