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KMID : 0379219980180020012
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
1998 Volume.18 No. 2 p.12 ~ p.29
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Stress , Coping Behavior , and Psychological Adjustment of Adult Children Coresiding with Their Old Parents
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Abstract
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The purposes of this research were to examine (1) the relationship of old parents´ social and economic dependence on adult children with stress and psychological adjustment of adult children coresiding with their parents, and (2) the relative significance of effects of parents´ dependence, adult children´s stress and various coping behavior on psychological adjustment (depression and family life satisfaction). Data were collected from 132 marital couples coresiding with their parents in Seoul area.
Results of this study showed that wives´ stress and family life satisfaction were significantly different across social and economic dependence of old parents, while husbands´ stress and psychological adjustment were not. It was also found that coresiding stress of both husbands and wives were positively correlated with depression and negatively with family life satisfaction. Results of multiple regression analyses indicated that coresiding stress and self-blame coping behavior significantly influenced wives´ depression and that stress and coping behavior of passive avoidance influenced wives´ family life satisfaction. In addition, husbands´ depression was significantly affected by rational coping behavior, feeling expression, and passive avoidance coping behavior, while husbands´ family life satisfaction was significantly influenced by coresiding stress. Finally, results of the study were discussed in terms of implications for family life education and counseling to adult children coresiding with
their old parents.
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