잠재집단분석을 이용한 퇴직자의 사회적 관계유형 변화에 관한 종단적 연구

A Longitudinal Study on the Changes in the Typology of Social Relationships among Retirees by Using Latent Class Analysis

This study investigated the changes in the types of social relationships before and after retirement within the secondary group, in which involved in the local society including their spouses and children. The study used the panel survey of a Korean longitudinal study of aging data from the 1st (2006) to the 3rd year (2010) to classify the types of relations for 378 retirees by latent class analysis. In terms of the latent class analysis, the types of social relationships before and after retirement were divided into two heterogeneous groups. Before retirement, people belonged to 3 types of social relationships such as the children-oriented type, conjugal-and-secondary-relationship-oriented type, and distant-social-relationship type. After retirement, they were divided into 4 types of social relationships such as the children’s-financial-support-relationship, emotional-bondage-withchildren-relationship,conjugal-and-secondary-relationship-oriented type, and distant-social-relation type. Retirement requires retirees to change their social network, which leads them to reinforcing the fellowship with their spouses and children and to reduce social relationships rather than expanding to secondary groups of social relationships through changes of social networks while pursuing the emotional meaning of their post-retirement lives. This study is meaningful in that it showed the various adaptation types of retirees on the basis of their lives and empirical research on the changes of their social relationships.