Korean Journal of Social Welfare (한국사회복지학)
- Volume 60 Issue 1
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- Pages.211-231
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- 2008
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- 1229-5132(pISSN)
The Study on the Development of the Korean Elderly's Successful Aging Scale
한국 노인의 성공적 노화 척도 개발을 위한 연구
Abstract
In phase 1 of the study, data for the construct and items of KESAS(The Korean Elderly's Successful Aging Scale) were collected by indepth interviews with a purposive sampling group of 25 elderly people and focus group interviews with four groups. Content analysis was applied to the data and from this analysis were emerged six key categories of successful aging. In phase 2 of the study, 78 items were collected from the data of 2 sets of interviews mentioned above. Through pilot test, preliminary 66 items are selected. In phase 3 of the study, 597 cases collected from the survey were divided randomly into 345 developmental samples and 252 validity samples. The items were examined exploratorily with the developmental samples and confirmatorily factor analysis with validity samples. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the hypothesized six-factor structure of KESAS, which finally resulted in consisting of 31 items. Six factors are as follows: 'autonomous life', 'self-completion orientation', 'positive life participation', 'satisfaction with one's offsprings', 'self-acceptance', 'other-acceptance'. Cronbach's alpha estimate and split-half estimates of the scale were .903 and .845, which confirms that the scale has reliability. This six-factor model exhibited a good fit on the basis of the overall fit measure criteria(TLI=.983, RMSEA=.057) aquired by using the confirmatory factor analysis. Moreover, KESAS was significantly related highly(r=.72) to the 'Quality of Life for the Korean Elderly'. This proved concurrent validity of the scale.
본 연구에서는 65세 이상의 한국 노인을 대상으로 한국 노인의 성공적 노화 척도를 개발하였다. 성공적 노화 개념 추출을 위해 25명의 노인들에 대한 심층면접과 4개의 포커스 그룹을 통해 6개 영역의 성공적 노화 핵심 범주와 78개의 문항을 개발하였다. 이를 토대로 66문항의 일대일 면접설문지를 통해 수집된 표본 597부를 무선 분할하여 개발 표본 345부와 타당화 표본 252부의 분석을 통해 최종적으로 31문항으로 구성된 한국 노인의 성공적 노화 척도를 개발하였다. 이 척도는 '자율적 삶', '자기완성 지향', '적극적 인생 참여', '자녀에 대한 만족', '자기수용', 그리고 '타인수용' 등의 하위 요인으로 구성되어 있으며, Cronbach's
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