• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.638-643
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• 2005

As Korea has approached the aging society, older Koreans have become an important force in restaurant sales today. To succeed with this silver market, it is important for restaurant managers to know who they are and what factors influence older Koreans' eating-out decision making process. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the silver consumers' education level on eating-out decision making process. Data were collected from 178 older consumers above 55 years old and analyzed using the descriptive statistic analysis, MANOVA, and one-way ANOVA. The results showed that the elderly consumers' education level significantly influenced the decision making process in determining where to eat out. Significant differences were found in the Problem Recognition Step(Wilks' Lambda=0.817, F=2.991), Information Search Step(Wilks' Lambda=0828, F=2.218), Alternative Evaluation Step II(Wilks' Lambda=0.741, F=3.596), Purchase Decision Step(Wilks' Lambda=0.859, F=2.223), and the Post-Purchase Behavior(Wilks' Lambda=0.885, F=1.780). The higher education level was, the more directly involved in the eating out decision process. The elderly consumers with university education were likely to 'propose to eat out by themselves'(F=9.346), to obtain restaurant information from the 'printed materials'(F=7.452), to go to 'family restaurant'(F=9.057), 'Japanese restaurant'(F=8.7891) and 'fine dining restaurants'(F=3.936), and to directly express their emotion when they had complaints about restaurant service(F=3.206). In conclusion, older Koreans will become more healthy and wealthy which means the dining out activity will be an important part of their life to socialize with people. Therefore, food service operations should consider the elderly consumers' needs and expectation of restaurant services and actively position themselves for this new market segment.

• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.286-295
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• 2015

Objective: This experiment is to study how elderly group and their various lifestyles interact with health functional foods, according to their selection behavior. Different lifestyles will be observed closely, as well as how different health conditions and consumer involvements will affect critical decision making in selecting health functional foods. Method: Theories and discoveries from original advanced research were compared parallel to the new study. Results: First, cluster analysis and exploratory analysis were performed amongst different elder lifestyles. Lifestyle exploratory analysis was used for healthy, unique, leisure, and economical-style elders. Cluster analysis was used for material trend oriented, health oriented, complacent oriented-style elders. Health Functional Foods' selection trait Exploratory Factor Analysis showed that product's originality (function, uniqueness, specialty, compatibility, distributor, expiration date), quality (amount, daily dose, visual representation, accessibility, portability, natural ingredients), and popularity (product container, brand image, taste and smell, advertised product, domestic or import, well-known function) were the three main causes. Secondly, the amount of benefits for the elderly group health lifestyle were affected by 'Interest in health', 'Notability of the health functional food', and 'Functionality approved mark'. Specifically, the importance of, 'Interest in health', 'Notability of health functional food', and 'Functionality approved mark' were noticeably high within health oriented elders. Lastly, after examining the data from elder lifestyle's relationship with health functional food selection trait, all three different results showed equal importance. If you closely examine material trend oriented elderly group, selection trait showed distinctively high regards in 'Fundamental Attribute', 'Typical Attribute', and 'Cognitive Attribute'. Health oriented elders showed their distinctively high regards in 'Natural Attribute', and less consideration in 'Typical Attribute' and 'Cognitive Attribute'. Complacent oriented-style elderly group showed less focus on 'Fundamental Attribute', and even less in 'Typical Attribute', and 'Cognitive Attribute'. Health oriented elderly group concluded with above data from the fact that they showed most importance and involvement in health beneficial products that are scientifically proven. Material trend oriented elderly group showed balanced traits in their concluded data, showing that they prefer function, safety, as well as the brand image and their reputation. Also, they consider the products' outer elements, such as design and product name, in order to sense inner functions. Conclusion: So, Silver Business corporations must develop products to fulfill the market demands, and strategize marketing plans to better target the correct audience.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 고령인구의 증가에 따라 시니어를 대상으로 하는 휴대폰 시장이 확대될 것이라 예측하여, 향후 노후를 맞이할 50${\sim}$65세의 시니어를 기준으로 휴대폰 소비행태와 사용현황을 살펴보고자 하였다. 따라서 실버 소비자와 마케팅에 관한 이론적 연구를 바탕으로 설문조사를 실시하였으며, 시니어의 라이프스 타일 분석을 통하여 시니어(Senior)와 액티브시니어(Active senior)로 구분, 두 그룹간의 특징 및 차이점을 분석하였다. 또한 선행연구결과에 근거하여 기존 고령자들이 불만족도가 높았던 항목에 대한 실제적인 접근방법을 살펴보고 향후 인터페이스의 직접입력 방식으로의 변화 가능성 여부를 타진해보았다. 그 결과 본 논문에서는 시니어의 사용경험증가에 따른 행동양식의 변화를 알 수 있었으며, 라이프스타일에 따른 소비행동 요인의 차이와 더불어 새로운 인터페이스에 대한 시장가치의 가능성을 발견할 수 있었다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.35-45
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• 2021

베이비 부머 세대가 고령인구로 진입하면서 기존의 시니어와는 달리 활동적인 모습을 보이는 시니어들이 액티브 시니어라는 신조어로 불리며 새로운 소비자 층으로 떠오르고 있다. 많은 국가들과 기업들도 이들을 주목하고 관련 정책이나 서비스를 제공하고자 하지만 액티브 시니어 트렌드에 대한 연구는 매우 부족한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 액티브 시니어에 대한 특징과 이들이 생산하고 소비하는 온라인 미디어 콘텐츠 트렌드를 파악하여, 액티브 시니어를 적극 포용하고 지원할 수 있는 온라인 미디어에 대한 정책 및 서비스 방향성을 제시하고자한다. 이를 위해 소셜 미디어에서 액티브 시니어를 수집 키워드로 2018년 1월 1일부터 2021년 6월 31일까지 8,740건의 데이터를 수집하여 키워드 빈도 분석, TF-IDF 분석, LDA 토픽 모델링 분석을 하였다. 키워드 빈도 분석 및 TF-IDF 분석을 통해서 액티브시니어에 대한 관심도가 급증하고 있다는 것을 파악하였으며 LDA 토픽 모델링 분석을통해서 온라인 콘텐츠의 주제 영역을 10가지로 분류하고 라이프 스타일, 혜택, 쇼핑, 정부 사업, 정부 교육, 건강, 사회/경제, 케어 산업, 실버 주택, 여가로 명명하였다.