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KMID : 0379220070270010053
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2007 Volume.27 No. 1 p.53 ~ p.69
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The Effect of Levels and Dimensions of Social Support on Geriatric Depression
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Rho Byeong-Il
Mo Seon-Hee
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Abstract
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Social support, which plays a role in alleviating geriatric depression, can be divided into family, friend, and community levels in terms of its sources on the one hand, and into structural and functional dimensions in terms of its contents and forms on the other. This study has attempted to examine the relationships between social support of structural and functional dimensions at family, friend, and community levels and depression among the elderly in Daejeon. The results of this study showed that the degree of depression was close to the average and that the degrees of contacts (structural dimension) and perception (functional one) at family and friend levels were generally higher than the average. In case of social support at a community level, the degrees of formal and informal social ties (structural dimension) were lower than the average, whereas the degrees of trust and norms of collective action (functional one) were higher than the average. The correlation analysis indicated that the contacts with children, contacts with relatives, perception on the family, perception on friends, formal social ties in the community, and trust in community had a significant negative relationship with depression, respectively. According to the regression analysis, income, education, disease, perception on the family, and contacts with friends were significant predictors of depression. In other words. higher levels of income, higher levels of education, lower prevalence of diseases, higher perception on the family, and more frequent contacts with friends were significantly related to a lower degree of depression. Some implications were suggested on the basis of these findings.
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KEYWORD
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elderly, depression, social support
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