Self-Esteem and Related Factors of the Eged in the C city

Ahn, Hwang Ran

doi:1998.7.1.48

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Journal of Korean Academy of psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 1998;7(1):48-59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.1998.7.1.48 Published online June 30, 1998.

Self-Esteem and Related Factors of the Eged in the C city

Hwang Ran Ahn

Department of Nursing, Gyeong-sang National Univer sity

C시 노인의 자아존중감과 영향을 미치는 요인

안황란

경상대학교 노인건강연구소

Abstract

Self-esteem is an essential component in health and the quality of life of the aged. But even though self-esteem among the aged has been documented in western country, few studies have been conduc ted related to the self-esteem in Korea. Especially, relationship of few the general characteristics and self-esteem has been studied in previous research and literature, but relationship of many variables (16) and self-esteem was studied in this study. The purpose of this study was to identify self-es teem and related factors of the aged m the C city. 179 subjects were participated in the study. The sur vey questionaire was develoed by Hwang-Ran Ahn(1993). SPSS/PC + was utililized for data analysis and in cluded discriptive statistics, t —test, One way ANOVA. The results of this st udy are summerized as follows : 1. Mean of self-esteem was 55.3, minimum was 31, and maximum was 76. 2. Variables showed statistically significant differ ence in self-esteem of the aged were : sex, age. education, existence of spouse, family, occu pation, existence and type of intrest, personality, satisfaction of life, happiness of marriage, exist ence and type of disease. But it wasn’t signifi cantly different according to religion, existence of unmarried family, economic. From the results of this study, it can be concluded that the aged in the C city do have middle degree of self-esteem. And the 13 variables of 16 variables showed statistically significant difference in self-esteem. Therefore further research are needed to develop better selfesteem measurement tool to identify self-esteem of the aged and to develop and evaluate nursing intervention for high self-esteem.

Key Words: The aged; Self-esteem

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