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A Study on Ambivalence of Elderly Parents Toward Their Adults Children

노부모가 인지하는 성인자녀에 대한 양가감정에 관한 연구

  • Lee, Shin Sook (Department of Social Welfare & Consumer Science, Sunchon Univ.)
  • 이신숙 (순천대학교 사회복지학부)
  • Received : 2013.08.07
  • Accepted : 2013.11.16
  • Published : 2013.12.31
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Abstract

This study considered whether intergenerational ambivalence has implications for elderly's psychological well-being so as to improve relationship between adults children and their parents and the qualities of the elderly lives. Subjects were 346 elderly parents whose ages 60 over. The statistics used for data analysis were reliability, frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, one way ANOVA and multiple regression. The results of this study were as follows; 1)The degrees of elderly's ambivalence of their adult children were 10.07, the data showed lower than median. 2)The elderly's ambivalence level significantly according to spouse, career, religion, relation of the adults children, and ambivalence level were associated with importance of the adults children, education. 3)The variables that affect the elderly's ambivalence level were spouse, importance of the adults children, education, religion, relation of the adults children, career, which explained about 19% of the total variance.

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