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KMID : 1124020180340020209
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Korean Social Security Studies
2018 Volume.34 No. 2 p.209 ~ p.237
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Comparison of Successful Aging and its Determinents by Gender
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Ji Hye-Eun
Park Kyung-Sook
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Abstract
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As Korean society entered into an aged society, positive perception of the elderly had begun to be a heightened topic of focus. The purpose of this study is to compare successful aging and its micro, mezzo and macro level determinants between old women and men based on the ecological and gender perspective. The study used Rowe and Kahn’s definition of successful aging consisting of three dimentions: physical, cognitive and psychological, and social. 4,226 old people(age 65 and above) were analyzed from the 5th Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing(2014). The results showed that the rate of successful aging in cognitive and psychological dimension was the lowest for both genders. In addition, old women showed a lower rate of successful aging compared to old men in all three dimentions with the biggest gap in the cognitive and psychological dimention. There were both similarities and differences in determinants of successful aging between the two groups. Most of the micro factors affected successful aging significantly for both genders. However, the mezzo and macro factors affected on old men and women differently. Having a spouse had a positive influence on general successful aging for both genders. Living with children had a negative influence on cognitive and psychological successful aging for old men and negative influence on physical and social successful aging for old women. Expectation of government support for later life only had a significant influence on successful aging of old women. The study further discussed policy implications based on the findings of successful aging respective to gender.
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KEYWORD
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successful aging, ecological perspective, gender perspective
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