미신고 복지시설 노인의 우울과 자아존중감에 대한 다층분석

초록

The purpose of this study is to find out the major independent variables on depression and self-esteem of the elderly living in unreported residential facilities. Two hundred twenty two old people were selected from 14 unreported residential facilities in Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeongki regions. Two separate data, the elderly and the residential facilities, was collected by the organized face-to-face in-depth interviews. This data was statistically analyzed by the Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM) after merging the individual level and the facility level data. The analysis results showed that the effect of functional social support on depression and self-esteem of the elders was statistically significant. When the level of functional support toward the elderly increases, the level of their depression decreases and at the same time the level of their self-esteem increases. Otherwise, the effect of structural social support was not significant and even provided a negative effect on depression. Among the individual variables, the most decisive influence on depression was the level of ADL, diet, education, and whether they were recipients of public assistance program(NBLSS). Regarding facility variables, the number of the elderly in each facility provided a significant effect on their self-esteem.

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