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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2016.17.4.646

A Study on the environmental factors that affect married life and life satisfaction of elderly couple - Moderating Effect of Spouse Support -  

Na, Yei-Won (Graduate School of Venture, Hoseo University)
Kim, Hyoung-Soo (Department of management, Graduate School of Venture, Hoseo University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.17, no.4, 2016 , pp. 646-662 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study of elderly couples examined the main environmental factors affecting the married life satisfaction and life satisfaction of the spouses. The survey was conducted on 60-year-old elderly couples who live in the metropolitan area of Seoul and Gyeonggi. A total of 400 questionnaires were used to analyze the exception of a number of 12 388 additional missing data. The results were as follows. First, environmental factors affecting the marital satisfaction of spouses' personality suitability and gender role attitudes appeared in the economic conditions. Second, the spouses environmental factors affecting the life satisfaction turned out to be the gender role attitude, reliability and economic conditions. Third, the major environmental factors affecting both spouses married life satisfaction and life satisfaction was found to be the gender role attitude and economic conditions. Fourth, the environmental factors representing a moderating effect on the supporting spouse between environmental factors and life satisfaction appeared to be the personality suitability and economic conditions. These results suggest that the recent increases in the twilight divorce rate may be due to the marriage satisfaction and common factors of gender role attitudes. Therefore, to improve the lives and economic conditions as well as the satisfaction of the spouse, the support of important factors are needed to adjust the crisis of old age couples. Therefore, a relevant policy that targets elderly couples through counseling and education will be needed.
Keywords
Economic conditions; Gender role attitude; Life satisfaction; Married life satisfaction; Personality suitability; Reliability; Spouse support;
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