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KMID : 0379220080280010049
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2008 Volume.28 No. 1 p.49 ~ p.67
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A Study on Factors influencing Marital Relationship in Late Middle-Aged Married Couple Associated with Sex: Focused on Sex Life
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Kim Hye-Sun
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Abstract
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Recently, a middle-aged population has been increased in Korean society and the aging of the Korean society has brought about the long-term middle age. It means that couples should live together more than ever before and suggests the importance of martial relationship during their middle age for successful old age. Although researches on a variety of subjects have been conducted, there are few researches martial relationship focused on sex life of the middle age. Accordingly, this study intends to explore the sex life and marital relationship associated with sex and find out major facts influencing a martial relationship. The subjects were 126 middle-aged married people residing in S city at the Yeogndong area in Gangwon-do. As results of this study, for sex life perception, there was significant difference in every item but four, for the situation of sex life, women was more passive in sex life than men, and for marital relationship, women showed lower satisfaction than men. Then, the stepwise regression analysis was conducted to examine the factors influencing marital satisfaction in late middle-aged married couples. Married women gave significance to sex life conversation with their husbands, sex life satisfaction, whereas married men gave significance to sex life attitude, sex life satisfaction. Based on these results, this study suggests that accurate knowledge and actual information for the positive marital relationship of the late middle age should be provided, and sex counseling programs and professional human resources should be developed.
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KEYWORD
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Late Middle-Age, Sex Life, Marital Relationship
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