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http://dx.doi.org/10.14370/jewnr.2017.23.2.97

Factors Influencing the Happiness according to the Gender of the Elderly Living Alone: Using Data from 2015 Community Health Survey  

Kim, Kyung Sook (Department of Nursing, Korean Bible University)
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Journal of East-West Nursing Research / v.23, no.2, 2017 , pp. 97-106 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the factors influencing the happiness according to gender of the elderly living alone. Methods: This cross-sectional study used the raw data from the 2015 Community Health Survey. The subjects of this study were 14,705 elderly people aged 65 years or older, of which 2,198 were male elderly and 12,507 were female elderly. Results: The factors influencing the happiness of both male and female elderly were household income, depression, subjective stress level, subjective health level, quality of life, and lack of required medical service experience (p<.05). In addition, the male elderly were affected by the age, and the female elderly were affected by education, sleep time, walking and breakfast practice, and health screening (p<.05). Conclusions: It is necessary to develop and apply programs that can reduce the stress to increase the happiness of the elderly living alone, and efforts should be made not to cause a blind spot in terms of the health and welfare of the elderly living alone.
Keywords
Aged; Sex; Happiness;
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