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KMID : 1023720100490010405
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2010 Volume.49 No. 1 p.405 ~ p.427
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The Influence of Participation in Religious and Social Activities of the Elderly on Their Life Satisfaction -Focusing on Depression and Death Anxiety-
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Nam Ki-Min
Park Hyeon-Joo
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Abstract
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Religious activity and social activity of the elderly as independent variables, depression and death anxiety as mediating variables and life satisfaction as a dependent variable were set up in this study. This study was performed to test the influencing relationship among the study variables and the mediating effect of depression and death anxiety. The subjects of this study were the ones who were 65 year and older living in Cheongju. The findings of this study were as follows: First, the elderly’s participation in religious activity had not any influence on their life satisfaction, but the elderly’s participation in social activity had the positive influence on their life satisfaction. Second, the elderly’s participation in religious activity had not any influence on depression and death anxiety. On the one hand, the elderly’s participation in social activity had not any influence on death anxiety and on the other hand their participation in social activity had the negative influence on depression. Third, the elderly’s depression and death anxiety had the negative influence on their life satisfaction. Fourth, it was found that depression and death anxiety were not indirectly operating as mediating variables between the elderly’s participation in religious activity and their life satisfaction. Also, it was found that depression was indirectly operating as a mediating variable between the elderly’s participation in social activity and their life satisfaction and death anxiety was not indirectly operating as a mediating variable. Through the above results of this study, activity theory was tested and depression as a mediating variable between the elderly’s participation in social activity and their life satisfaction was found. This study shows that social activity programs need positively to be developed to prevent the elderly’s depression and to promote their life satisfaction.
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KEYWORD
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religious activity of the elderly, social activity of the elderly, depression, death anxiety, Life satisfaction
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