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KMID : 1023720100470010113
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2010 Volume.47 No. 1 p.113 ~ p.136
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The effect of psychosocial factors on the suicidal ideation of older adults
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Kim Mee-Ryoung
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Abstract
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This study examines the effect of psycho-social factors such as social integration, self-efficacy and depressive symptoms on the suicidal ideation of older adults. The sample size of this study is 264. This study also examines the differences of independent variables and suicidal ideation by gender and age. Also, to test the degree of the effectiveness on the suicidal ideation, standardized coefficient βs are used. There are statically significant differences of the meeting frequency with adult children and friends and the self-efficacy by gender and depressive symptoms by age. For older men, the self-efficacy and meeting frequency of adult children and friends are higher than those of older women. The research results of the hierarchical multiple regression tell that the control variables are important factors of affecting on the suicidal ideation. When independent variables entered in the model 2, the meeting frequency of adult children and friends affect the suicidal ideation negatively. Also, the self-efficacy affects the suicidal ideation negatively and the depressive symptoms affect the suicidal ideation positively. Depressive symptoms are the most effective factors on the suicidal ideation followed by the self-efficacy and the meeting frequency of adult children and friends. Both psycho-social factors of the meeting frequency of adult children and friends, self-efficacy and depressive symptoms explain about 28.79% of variance of the suicidal ideation.
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KEYWORD
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older adults` suicidal ideation, social integration, self-efficacy, depressive symptoms
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