노인의 상실감이 행복에 미치는 영향

The Effect of the Elder s Sense of Loss on Happiness:Focused on the moderating effects of mindfulness

This study examines the effect of the elders‘ sense of loss on their happiness and verifies whether concentration, de-centered attention, non-judgemental acception and present awareness which are sub factors of mindfulness can moderate relationship between happiness and a sense of loss of elderly s. To meet the purpose of this study, 279 people who are over 60 years old, live in Chang-won and Ulsan area, and use senior welfare center, senior citizen’s center, or community senior club were surveyed. The subjects were given self-report questionnaires which consist of 68 questions, 9 questions on sociodemographic characteristics, 8 questions on happiness, 31 questions on sense of loss, 20 questions on mindfulness. The data were analyzed by Pearson s product moment correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. Through the data analysis, first, there were a negative correlation between the elderly’s sense of loss and their happiness. Second, in terms of the correlation between the elderly’s sense of loss and their happiness, it appears that the de-centered attention which is a sub factor of mindfulness had a moderating effect which was statistically significant. Third, in terms of the correlation between the elderly’s sense of loss and their happiness, it appears that the non-judgemental acception which is a sub factor of mindfulness had a moderating effect which was statistically significant. Based on these results, this study discussed about implications in the field of counselling and further studies.