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http://dx.doi.org/10.5934/kjhe.2014.23.1.47

Financial Debt Burden and Financial Stress  

You, Soye (Division of Business Administration, Chonbuk National University)
Park, Jooyung (Dept. of Consumer's life Information, Chungnam National University)
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Korean Journal of Human Ecology / v.23, no.1, 2014 , pp. 47-61 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship among financial debt burden, psychological factors and financial stress. Data was collected by surveying 450 individuals who were over twenty years old, and 384 were used for the analysis. As the result, first, number of sources of debt, use of each debt, marital status/double income, housing, debt amount and financial stress were found to be significantly different among three groups(debt free, non risky, risky). In addition, marital status/double income, gender, housing and income were found to significantly influence to the probability of being one of the three groups. Second, level of debt burden, age, employment and income were found to significantly influence to financial stress, while psychological factors such as risk tolerance and self-control were not. It might be noteworthy that people in debt were likely to have higher level of stress, while the older, employed, and having higher income were likely to have lower level of stress. This study would provide useful information in terms of debt policy to relieve the financial stress.
Keywords
financial debt burden; financial stress; self-control; risk tolerance;
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