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KMID : 1023720140630010203
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2014 Volume.63 No. 1 p.203 ~ p.227
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Research of how the attitude of old people toward their own death affect their self-esteem
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Cho Chu--Yong
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Abstract
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The purpose of this paper is to divide the attitudes of those old people facing death into three subordinate scopes-fear, evasion, openness-and study them, and based on the findings, to further study how their attitudes toward death may affect their self-esteem. Based on the research findings, we will suggest how the old people can raise their self-esteem. In other words, we will divide their attitude toward death into three subordinate scopes and suggest rational policy concerning how they can accept their death in a more positive manner. The study was conducted on the old people that use senior welfare center and 220 copies of the study were analyzed. Three scopes-their attitude toward their own death, self-esteem, and the general characteristics-were studied, hypothesis was formed, and frequency analysis, cross analysis, technological analysis, t-test, ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis were conducted as data analysis. The test result showed that the evasion is the highest among the three subordinate scopes of fear of death, evasion, and openness while fear was found to be the lowest among the same scopes. In the analysis of attitudes toward death by variable, it was found that women feared death more than men do and that women tended to evade death more in cases of separation by the death of their spouse and the separation by divorce when compared to other cases. In the analysis by living standard, those better off economically tended to accept death in a more positive manner than those who are not. Based on these findings, we suggest that the training the old people to accept death be reinforced in order to help them embrace death more easily and in a more positive manner; to encourage them to pursue their religious life in order to help them overcome fear of death; and finally to develop proper programs designed to maintain or raise one`s self-esteem.
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KEYWORD
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attitude toward death, self-esteem, fear of death, evasion of death, openness about attitude toward death
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