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KMID : 0438219720090020259
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Korea University Medical Journal
1972 Volume.9 No. 2 p.259 ~ p.271
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Mental Health Studies of Normal Older Persons in Korea
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Abstract
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As our culture, typical agrarian and adopting large family system is moving toward that of industrial and adopting nuclear family system, older persons roles and positions in their family structure and in society are becoming much changed.
These cultural changes usually bring great emotional turmoil on aged peoples so that their mental health becomes threatened.
In order to assess the mental conditions of Korean aged peoples, who are exposed to the changing cultural influences as mentioned above, Bender-Gestalt test and several questionnaires applied to 100 (male 60, female 40) family cared older persons and 100(male 46, female 54) institutionalized older persons, and analyzed the data comparing these two groups.
From the results of the analysis following presumptive conclusion are drawn.
1. The results suggest that institutionalized older persons show more profound signs of organic brain damage and lowered intellectual function than family cared older persons.
2. As to their emotional problems, family cared older persons show strong frustrated dependency needs with impulsive tendency, regressed emotionality and strong depressive tendency. On the other hand institutionalized older persons show withdrawal tendency, dulled emotionality, negativistic attitude toward reality, self-centered and detached attitudes.
3. As to their physical conditions, high percentage of them express subjective sense of good health in both groups.
4. As to their future wishes, family cared older persons show much concern about their family welfare rather than their own one.
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