• Journal of muscle and joint health
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.175-183
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• 2019

Purpose: This is a descriptive research examining the relationships between aging anxiety, perceived level of successful aging, and preparation for aging as well as factors influencing preparation for aging. Methods: Subjects of this study were 221 women aged between 40 and 59 years residing in area J. Data were collected from October 27, 2017 to November 9, 2017, using a structured questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using the statistical program SPSS/WIN 24.0. Results: Regression analysis revaled that factors having a significant effect on the preparation for aging of the subjects were age, perceived health status, exercise, leisure activity, aging anxiety, and perception of successful aging. The total explanatory power was 42.3%. Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, it was found that aging anxiety and successful aging influenced the preparation for aging of middle-aged women. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a nursing intervention that properly manage aging anxiety and improves successful aging, in order to encourage middle-aged women to actively prepare for their later lives.

• Journal of Home Health Care Nursing
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.177-185
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• 2016

Purpose: In this study, we sought to identify the impact of aging anxiety and successful aging on the personality traits of elderly. Method: Subjects were 108 elderly persons aged more than 65 years. Data collected from June to November 2015 were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression. Results: With regard to the mean scores of personality traits, conscientiousness yielded the highest score, and neuroticism the lowest. The mean score on aging anxiety was below average, and that on successful aging was above average. Aging anxiety differed significantly according to age, present job, economic status, and health status. Successful aging differed significantly according to having a spouse, economic status, and health status. Significant correlations were found between anxiety and conscientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism, and between successful aging and conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, openness, and neuroticism. Conscientiousness and neuroticism had an effect on aging anxiety (23.2%), whereas conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, openness, and neuroticism affected aging anxiety (45.3%). Conclusion: These findings indicate that personality traits reduce aging anxiety and lead to successful aging among elderly.

• Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.6-14
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• 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine effects of posttraumatic growth, aging anxiety, and spirituality on successful aging in late middle-aged women. Methods: Participants were 128 late middle-aged women. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients and hierarchical multiple regression with SPSS WIN 23.0 program. Results: Results showed that significant factors influencing successful aging were spirituality and monthly income. This regression model explained 21.4% of the variance in successful aging. Conclusion: These results provided the basic data for establishing an intervention strategy to increase the level of successful aging of middle-aged women. In addition, the results suggested that development of a nursing intervention program is in need.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.213-222
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge and attitude toward the elderly, aging anxiety, and attitude toward caring the elderly and to identify influencing factors of attitude toward caring the elderly in nursing students. Participants were 227 nursing students from three college of nursing in D-city and K region. Data was collected by structured questionnaire on subjects' characteristics, knowledge toward the elderly, attitude toward the elderly, aging anxiety, and attitude toward caring the elderly. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression analysis with SPSS/WIN 19.0 program. The average score of knowledge, aging anxiety, attitude toward the elderly, and attitude toward caring the elderly of participants were 14.78, 2.88, 4.09, 5.16. Factors significantly affecting attitude toward caring the elderly were attitude toward the elderly, preference of caring for the elderly, aging anxiety, favorable type to be support as a parent. Explanatory power of the model was 24.7%. The results of this study suggest that interventions may be necessary to improve attitude toward caring the elderly among nursing students. It is essential to develop the strategy of providing positive experience with the elderly for nursing students as well as geriatric nursing education.

• Korean journal of health promotion
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.147-158
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• 2018

Background: This study was designed to investigate the effects of usual negative emotional experiences on biological aging progression of human. Methods: A total of 237 subjects who visited the Health Promotion Center at Chungnam National University Hospital from May 2013 through September 2013 was enrolled. Each subject had been drawn up a structured questionnaire about usual experiences of depression, anxiety, anger, and anger expression. The degree of biological aging progression of each subject was computed by a specific formula which consisted of chronological age and biological age reflecting obesity and aging of main organs. Results: Trait anger and low education level showed the significant correlations with biological aging (r=0.160, P=0.014, and r=-0.189, P=0.024, respectively). Trait anger and low education level solely displayed the significant $R^2s$ for biological aging in consequence of multivariate analyses; $R^2=0.044$, P=0.020, and $R^2=0.022$, P=0.038, respectively. Conclusions: This study suggests that the significant relationship between usual anger experience (i.e., trait anger) and biological aging would be present. In addition, lower education level may be related with biological aging.

• 건강소식
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• v.30 no.1 s.326
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• pp.12-13
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• 2006

노년기에 나타나는 신체적인 특징은 일반적인'노화 현상'이라고 볼 수 있다. 체력의 저하로 운동 기능이 둔화되고, 심폐 기능과 면역 능력이 저하되어 쉽게 병에 걸리고 주위 환경에 대한 적응력이 저하되는 현상이나타난다. 정신적인 노화도 나타나는데 일반적으로 감각, 지각, 지능 등과 같은 정신 및 신경기능의 저하와불안 또는 우울 등의 정서 및 성격의 변화를 나타내기도 한다.그러나 이러한 변화는 노화 과정에서 초래되는 것이기도 하지만 젊더라도 운동을 거의 하지 않는 사람들에게도 똑같이 일어나고 있다. 따라서 노화 현상이라기 보다는 근육의 불용성 위축으로 초래되는 것이기에 적절한 운동으로 예방 또한 가능하다.

• Women's Health Nursing
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.181-190
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• 2017

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify factors influencing health promotion behavior of late-middle aged women. Methods: The subjects were 128 women who were attending a cultural center located in B metropolitan city. Data were collected from July 1 to July 31, 2016. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, $Scheff{\acute{e}}$ test, Pearson correlation coefficient, Stepwise multiple regression with SPSS/WIN 23.0 program. Results: Health promotion behavior of later middle-aged women was different by general characteristics such as religion, exercise, economic satisfaction, life satisfaction, and leisure time activities. Health promotion behavior had a positive relationship with health perception and perception of successful aging, and a negative relationship with aging anxiety. Health perception, perception of successful aging, exercise, leisure time activities (exercise and social activity) were verified significant factors influencing health promotion behavior accounted for 38%. Conclusion: The results indicate that health perception and perception of successful aging influence health promotion behavior of late-middle age women. It would provide the basic data for the development of program aimed at improving health promotion behavior of late-middle age women.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.14-25
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• 2019

Purpose: This was a methodological study that aimed to develop a measurement scale for aging anxiety among middle-aged women. Methods: In this study, construct factors were extracted, and a conceptual framework was established through an extensive literature review and in-depth interviews with middle-aged women. Under the conceptual framework, 44 preliminary items were constructed, and a preliminary scale of 25 items was completed after two rounds of expert validation and item review. For this study, data were collected from 201 women aged 40~59 years, and the construct validity and reliability of the preliminary scale were verified. Results: To verify the construct validity, exploratory factor analysis was conducted. Four factors containing 19 items were extracted. Concurrent validity of the developed scale was verified with Pearson's correlation analysis. The final scale comprised 4 factors ("Social valueless", "Physical weakness", "Concern about changes in appearance", and "Expectations of old age") and 19 items. The Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ value was .91. Conclusion: The scale for measuring aging anxiety in middle-aged women developed in this study validly reflected the peculiarities of aging anxiety in middle-aged women, who experience many physical, emotional, and social changes. The scale can be said to reflect the cultural background, as it reflected real experiences gained through in-depth interviews with middle-aged women.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.175-185
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• 2021

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of care stress for older patients, self-perceptions of aging, and anxiety about aging on preparation for retirement in clinical nurses. Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study in which participants were 222 nurses who had at least six months of work experience and were involved in caring for older patients in the last six months at the work site. Data were collected from August to September, 2020 using an online survey questionnaire. Data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS/WIN 25.0 program. Results: The mean level of preparation for retirement in the participants was moderate (3.21 out of 5 points). Among the sub-domains of preparation for retirement, financial preparation had the lowest score. Self-perceptions of aging and aging anxiety were significant predictors for retirement preparation in nurses, accounting for 16% of the variable's total variance. Conclusion: A greater level of preparation for retirement was associated with a positive perception of aging and a decreased level of aging anxiety in the clinical nurses. Further research should focus on exploration of specific determinants of financial preparation for retirement and development of intervention strategies for improving preparation for retirement in the nursing workforce.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.25-30
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• 2013

In nanoscale MOSFET technology, aging effects such as Negative Bias Temperature Instability(NBTI), Hot carrier Injection(HCI), Time Dependent Dielectric Breakdown (TDDB) and so on which affect circuit reliability can lead to severe degradation of digital circuit performance. Therefore, this paper has proposed the adaptive compensation circuit to overcome the aging effects of digital circuits. The proposed circuit deploys a power gating structure with variable power switch width and variable forward body-biasing voltage in order to adaptively compensate for aging induced performance degradation, and has been designed in 45nm technology.