A Study on the Level of Life Satisfaction of Middle Aged Women - Focused on the Family Cohesion and Adaptibility they perceive -

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1993;31(1):121-135.

중년기여성의 생활만족도에 관한 연구 - 중년기여성이 인지한 가족응집력 및 적응력을 중심으로 -

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한국방송통신대학교 가정학과

A Study on the Level of Life Satisfaction of Middle Aged Women - Focused on the Family Cohesion and Adaptibility they perceive -

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ABSTRACT

This study was to investigate the relationship between the level of life satisfaction of middle-aged woman and that of the family cohesion and adaptibility, the subjects were 243 married women aged from 40 to 59 years old. The survey instruments were Life Satisfaction Scale and FACESⅢ by using SPSSPC+ program package, especially ANOVA, Scheffe's test, Correlation and Stepwise Multiple Regression. The results were as follows; 1. The overall levels of life satisfaction were middling. 2. The family cohesions were relatively high, adaptibility middling. 3. 1) The levels of life satisfaction were different according to their ages, frequencies of leisure activities, and levels of household income. 2) The levels of life satisfaction were different according to the levels of the family adaptibility and cohesion. 3) Dividing the family type into tow part by the levels of cohesion and adaptibility, the levels of life satisfaction had no differences in typeⅠ based on curvilinea hypothesis, but those of life satisfaction had differences in typeⅡ on linear hypothesis. 4. The results of stepwise multiple regression ; the variables having an effects on the level of life satisfaction were revealed cohesion, frequencies of leisure activities, and the level of household income, and their explanatory power 33%.