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KMID : 0379220150350020525
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2015 Volume.35 No. 2 p.525 ~ p.541
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Residential Movement in Old Age and Analysis of Relationship among Related Variables: Targeting Senior Citizens who have Moved to a New Town
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Kim Jin-Young
Kwon Oh-Jung
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to examine the residential movement of senior citizens who practice it in their in old age and the residential situations they come to experience after the movement and also figure out variables influencing their residential movement. To attain the study goal, first of all, the author conducted the pilot survey of 40 senior citizens who had the experience of residential movement and reflected it in selecting survey subjects and developing study tools. The main survey was conducted in February, 2014, to 430 senior citizens that moved to a new town in the capital area and resided there for more than a year and less than five years. The results of this study are as follow: First, the change of personal life after their residential movement has been found to be a major variable directly influencing their satisfaction with the new environment and residential attachment. Therefore, to improve senior citizens’ adaption to new residence and satisfaction, it is needed to consider the aspects of their lives after the movement beforehand. Second, the variable of residential attachment has been found to exert more direct effects on planning for their future residential movement than residential satisfaction. Therefore, to prevent senior citizens from moving to another area unnecessarily after the movement, it is essential to help them have pride in and attachment to the area. Third, the voluntariness in decision-making for their residential movement has shown that it exerts direct effects on the change of personal life in path model analysis. Thus, if they have to move unavoidably or for another family member’s decision-making, it is needed to provide them with more considerate care by the family after the movement.
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KEYWORD
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Residential movement in old age , Change of personal life , Degree of voluntariness in decision-making , Residential satisfaction , Residential attachment , Planning for their future residential movement
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