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KMID : 1040220120040020107
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Journal of the Korean Academy of Health and Welfare for Elderly
2012 Volume.4 No. 2 p.107 ~ p.120
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The Productive Activities, Self-esteem and Subjective Sense of Well-being have an influence on Successful Aging
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Lee Hyang-Ran
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Abstract
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On this study, there is a need to suggest the active countermeasure and the alternative for the elderly who need to prepare the era of population to enhance the quality of life due to a compressed aging in the Korean society recently. To achieve this, we grasped the relationships that the productive activities, the self-esteem and the subjective sense of well-being of the elderly over the age of 60 have an influence on the successful aging by utilizing the analysis data for the advanced research and the survey to understand the characteristics of the elderly well on this study. Also, we identified the mediation effectiveness of the social capital effecting on successful aging. As the results of the analysis, first, all measured variables were similar statistically and it turned out that man rather than woman, a person with the lower age, in case if they have a spouse, in case if they are in good health and have far more income and in case if they have a religion have the high level of a successful aging. Second, the elderly with a high level of self-esteem and a high level of productive activities had a high level of a successful aging. Third, as the social capital above everything else has the most powerful influence on the level of the successful aging, it turned out that the successful aging had an influence according to the trust, the network of relation and whether they have the social participation. Forth, it resulted in the facts that the social capital is the major variable contributing to the successful aging as the complete intermediation for the productive activities, the self-esteem and the subjective sense of well-being.
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KEYWORD
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Successful Aging, Productive Activities, Self-esteem, Subjective Well-being
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