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KMID : 1023720100470010007
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2010 Volume.47 No. 1 p.7 ~ p.29
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Determinants of Marital Satisfaction among the Elderly Couple
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Kwon Oh-Gyun
Hur Jun-Soo
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Abstract
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This study investigated the major determinants of marital satisfaction among the elderly couples, and explored some relationships among marital satisfaction, socio-demographic variables, communication, house task , conjugal decision making, spousal support, self-esteem, and sexual satisfaction among the elderly couples. The statistical methods used for the data analysis were descriptive statistics, analysis of variance(ANOVA), correlation analysis, and multiple regression. The major findings were obtained in the study as following. First, the respondents’ showed low level in communication. The respondents’ showed ‘cooperating-couple type in house task & conjugal decision making. The respondents’ showed high level in spousal support. The respondents’ were high level in self-esteem. The respondents’ showed low level in sexual satisfaction. The respondents’ showed mild level in marital satisfaction. Second, the respondents’ sex, age, education levels, economic status were effects on marital satisfaction. Third, the respondents’ age, income, health status, marriage year, joint leisure activities, communication, house task, conjugal decision making, spousal support, self-esteem, and sexual satisfaction were correlated with marital satisfaction. Fourth, the major determinants of marital satisfaction were the respondents’ sex, marriage year, joint leisure activities, spousal support, self-esteem. Finally, implications were discussed for developing effective social welfare policies and social work programs to the community resident elderly couples for improvement of general marital satisfaction.
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KEYWORD
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elderly couples, marital satisfaction, house task, conjugal decision making, spousal support, self-esteem, sexual satisfaction
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