Study on the Need for the Family Life Education among the Middle Aged Wives

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1998;36(3):61-76.

중년기 주부의 가족관계 향상을 위한 가족생활교육 요구도 분석

김명자

숙명여자대학교 가정관리학과

Study on the Need for the Family Life Education among the Middle Aged Wives

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ABSTRACT

The Purpose of this paper is to find out the middle aged wives need for the family life education(FLE). The data were collected from 317 middle aged wives who's last child age over-18th. 1. The need for the FLE is indicated at the middle level, and we can see the strongest need of the being educated about the parent-child relationship, and of the being educated about the wife itself, about the older parent relationship and about the spousal relationship by turn. 2. Wife's age, husband's age, duration of marriage, income, number of children, type of family have a significant influence on the need for the family life education. 3. The middle aged wives want to educate about emotional control of leaving child, economic stability, teaching their child about value of marriage, and prevention and care of dementia. 4. This paper proposes that we should develope and execute not only the program of the FLE with respect to enough the need of the being educated, but also the programs of education about the grand parent role because of the increasing of the number of old aged people.