A Study on the Differences in the Quality of Life of Divorce in Old Age
AUTHORS
Boo-Hwan Ahn,Department of Elderly Welfare, Hanseo University, Doctor, Republic of Korea
Yun-Jeong Kim,Department of Heath, Counseling and Welfare, Hanseo University, Professor Republic of Korea
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to understand the difference in quality of life between the divorced elderly and the married elderly by using the 14th-year data of Korea Welfare Panel 2019. More concretely, first, this study analyzed differences in the quality of life (physical health, psychological health, economic health, social relation) between divorced elderly and married elderly. To achieve the objective of this study, this study targeted total 3,572 elderly people (286 divorced elderly, 3,286 married elderly) in their 60 or up in the 14th-year data of Korea Welfare Panel. Using the SPSS Win 21.0 ver., this study applied the frequency, reliability, t-test, cross tab. The whole 286 divorced elderly were composed of women (52.4%) and men (47.6%), so that women were a bit more than men. In the age of divorced elderly, the elderly in 60-69(60.8%) were the most, which was followed by the elderly in 70-79(31.8%) and the elderly in 80 or up (7.3%) in order. In the academic background, the graduation from elementary school or lower (40.6%) was the most, which was followed by graduation from high school or higher (32.9%) and graduation from middle school (26.6%) in order. As a result, the quality of life of the divorced elderly was lower than the one of the married elderlies. In other words, the divorced elderly smoked more, had lower self-esteem, and showed the lower household income and lower satisfaction with family income than the married elderly.
KEYWORDS
Divorce in old age, Quality of life after divorce, Differences in the quality of life
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