노인의 주거요인이 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

A Study on the Effect of Dwelling Factors of the Elderly on Satisfaction of Life

1. CONTENTS (1) RESEARCH OBJECTIVES This study examined housing satisfaction of the elderly in terms of demographical feature, dwelling form, occupancy form and family life, and also investigated satisfaction of life in terms of health satisfaction, family income satisfaction, family relation satisfaction, occupation satisfaction, social relation satisfaction and leisure life satisfaction in order to figure out the impact on overall life satisfaction. (2) RESEARCH METHOD This study employed raw material of 2011 KOWEPS 7th year session by Korea Institute for health and social affairs and social welfare institute of Seoul National University for analysis. KOWEPS is determined to be a suitable data as it has nationwide representativeness and has information on housing of the elderly. housing satisfaction and satisfaction of life. (3) RESEARCH FINDINGS In the results of this study, the family life affected housing satisfaction and life satisfaction. And, it shows that housing satisfaction had partial mediation effect on family life satisfaction. 2. RESULTS The analysis shows that the housing form had influences on apartment and occupancy form on the others. Theories of three researchers on dwelling, housing satisfaction and life satisfaction were adopted. This study proposes some solutions about the housing welfare policy of the elderly.