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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2011.12.12.5570

A Study on the Attitudes of Women Immigrants toward the Elderly  

Park, Ji-Young (Dept. of Multi-Cultural Welfare, Koguryeo College)
Lee, Chang-Seek (Dept. of Child and Adolescent Welfare, Hanseo University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.12, no.12, 2011 , pp. 5570-5577 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out to analyse the differences in the attitudes toward the elderly according to the characteristics of women immigrants, and identify the variables to predict the attitudes toward the elderly. The participants were 592 women immigrants sampled from six cities and one county. The major results of the study were as follows. Firstly, there were significant differences in the attitudes toward the elderly depending on age, residential area, spouse's educational level, family income, hope to support homeland's parents, and contact with homeland's family. Secondly, the characteristics related with Korean family explained the largest portion of the attitudes toward the elderly, and predictors of the attitudes were age, residential area, family income, and hope to support homeland's parents.
Keywords
Women immigrant; Attitude; The elderly; Attitude toward the elderly;
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