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KMID : 1023720110510010215
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2011 Volume.51 No. 1 p.215 ~ p.245
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A Longitudinal Study on the Change of Life Satisfaction among the Aged according to the Caring Behavior for the Parents: the application of growth potential model
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Lim Jung-Gi
Hong Eun-Jin
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of caring behavior for elderly parents on changes in life satisfaction based on the data of the 2005, 2007 and 2009 Korea Retirement and Income Study. Approximately 5,000 households and 8,600 members of the households were investigated, and the selected households included members of ages 50 and above in 2005. A cross-sectional analysis was made by year, and a longitudinal analysis was conducted as well to keep track of the relationship of caring to change in life satisfaction. The findings of the study were as follows: In the case of the group of people who took care of elderly parents, the number of families with mothers who were alive was by far greater than that of families in which fathers were alive. There was an increase with the lapse of time in the number of people who lived with their elderly parents under the same roof, and there was a gradual decrease over time in the number of those who took care of their elderly parents. In regard to the factors affecting the maintenance and caring of the elderly, the average age of the caregivers who were female, less educated, had spouses, were the heads of households, resided in urban areas, had smaller income and a larger family was higher. Finally, the data of the longitudinal analysis were analyzed by utilizing a growth potential model to see how caring affected life satisfaction. As a result, whether to take care of elderly parents or not exerted a statistically significant influence on life satisfaction in old age, and those who didn’t take care of elderly parents expressed higher life satisfaction. Therefore it could be said that those who didn’t take care of parents expressed higher life satisfaction, and that there was a greater increase in life satisfaction when they were not taking care of elderly parents. It seems to imply that there was a bigger decrease in life satisfaction when they took care of
parents for a longer period of time.
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KEYWORD
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caring behavior, elderly parents, Life satisfaction, growth potential model
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