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The purpose of this study was to investigate the selected predictors of the subjective well-being of the elderly receiving home-based social services. The study was approached from an ecological perspective in that the individual elderly´s characteristics, and their environments such as microsystem(i. e. the family system and the home-based social service system), and exosystem are explored. All of the subjects were the low-income elderly receiving home-based social services in Seoul. A structured questionnaire was used to interview a sample of 283 elderly over the age of sixty five. The major-findings were that the majority of the sample were not so satisfied with their lives; however, there were differences in the degrees of life satisfaction between the time before and after receiving home-based social services. The hierarchical regression analysis yielded the results that the magnitude of the importance of the individual characteristics was found to be larger than any other systems investigated in this study. However family system, home-based social service system, exosystem factors must be taken into consideration. It is because while the most powerful predictors of the subjective well-being of the elderly were the individual characteristics such as ´extraversion´, ´self-esteem´, the next were ´residential area´, ´filial piety ´Hyo" and ´real income´ factors in that order. Also it was found that ´satisfactions with home-based social services´, ´agency of Seoul Do-woo-mi´, ´living with adult children´, ´religion´ factors made significant contribution to the subjective well-being of the elderly. All of the variables mentioned above accounted for 56% of the research model.
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