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KMID : 0376619920170010009
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Seoul Journal of Psychiatry
1992 Volume.17 No. 1 p.9 ~ p.18
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The Influence of Personality on Life Satisfaction of the Elderly : With Reference to Neuroticism
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박인호
유희증/김창윤/이철/한오수
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Abstract
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Life satisfaction is essentially a long-term cognitive assessment of progress toward or attainment of desired goals. The findings of previous studies do not suggest any evidence of a relationship between age and decrease in life satisfaction ;
life
satisfaction scores were stable over time, although it and be affected by life events.
This study is designed to clarify the hypotheses that, among personality and sociodemographic variables, neuroticism is the strongest predictor of life satisfaction of the elderly and the age variabie is not significantly related to life
satisfaction of
the elderly. The life satisfaction index A, statetrait anxiet inventory(STAI), UCLA loneliness scale, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ), were administered to 300 subjects aged 60-79.
Stepwise multiple regression analyses were performed with the life satisfaction scale as the dependent variable ; trait anxiety, loneliness, state anxiety, self-rated health status and extraversion variables were influential variables of life
satisfaction scores of the elderly. According to factor analysis results, trait anxiety, state anxiety, recent 30 days' happiness level, life satisfaction, loneliness, self-fated health status, neuroticism, present happiness level and
extraversion
have
high loadings on the first factor which accounts for 36. 2% of the total variance and recent 30 days' happiness, neuroticism and extraversion have high loadings on the second factor which account for 12.1% of the total variance.
The results supported the hypotheses of this study and indicated that life satisfaction is affected by neuroticism and extraversion and that self-rated health status is an important predictor of life satisfaction of the elderly.
Further research will clarify the determinants of life satisfaction relating to measures of self-rated health status, physician-rated health status and degree of religious commitment, irrespective of the type of religion, and will include the
physically
disabled or the sick elderly. Extensive cross-sectional research would be required to determine the hypothesis that stable personality characteristics are, as has been suggested, more influential than any other demographic variables in accounting
for
life satisfaction, irrespective of age.
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