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KMID : 0379220100300020439
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2010 Volume.30 No. 2 p.439 ~ p.451
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Defining Factors Affecting the University Students` Consciousness of Supporting Senior Citizens
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Kim Sook-Kyoung
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Abstract
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Radical changes of our society in recent years has caused grave matters of weakening the university students’ consciousness of supporting senior citizens. This study has examined factors of individuals, family and the family relationship, which have an influence on the university students’ consciousness of supporting senior citizens, and figured out the most defining factors to enlighten them on the significance of the education and practical intervention in the consciousness of supporting senior citizens. The survey targeting 535 university students in Jeollanam-do was used for
performing the study. The results pointed out birth order, the economic level and the old’s consciousness of being supported, as individual factors, and family education, the relationship between parents and grand-parents and the relationship with parents, as family factors, and they are all meaningful in the whole factors of the family relationship. The defining factors affecting the university students’ consciousness of supporting senior citizens were verified as the economic level, the relationship with grand-parents and the whole relationship of the family(emotional closeness, responsibility of recognition, respect of acceptance). The meaning of the study has been scrutinized on the basis of results mentioned above.
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KEYWORD
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the consciousness of supporting senior citizens, defining factors, individual factors, family factors, family relationship factors
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