South Korea has been experiencing rapid population aging. In an aging society, the need for healthy lives is greater. Two of the fundamental factors to enable independent and active life for the elderly are mobility and social participation. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between older adults’ mobility, social participation, and quality of life in South Korea. We used data from the 2017 National Survey of Older Koreans conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and applied hierarchical regression. The major finding was that older adults’ mobility had a positive impact on their life satisfaction. After controlling for older adults’ mobility, social participation was positively associated with life satisfaction regardless of the place of residence. The findings of this study not only make a valuable contribution to further research on mobility and social participation but also provide new insight into improving older adults’ quality of life.
In this paper, a path analysis was carried out to identify socialstructural determinants of regional fertility. As a result, urbanization appeared to affect on marriage behavior and fertility through altering age structure, distribution of educational attainment and jobs among the population at the regional level. Thus, the population, size and structure, appeared to be determined not only by the natural factor, fertility birth rate, but also by socialstructural factors (education, job) of the region. Accordingly, to modify or alter the population for sustainable socio-economic development of the region, the strategies should take into considerations the societal structure of the region.
This study explored how working conditions influence the psychological outcomes of paid family and non-family home care workers, focusing on the interaction between institutional and recipient effects. Using data from the 2019 Korean Long-Term Care Survey (N = 998), we performed regression analyses on home care workers’ stress and turnover intention. For both types of home care-workers, inadequate working conditions and high occupational hazards influenced stress, while good working conditions and low occupational hazards influenced turnover intention. Overall, the findings suggest that wages, working hours, and work intensity must be reformed in a home care-worker-friendly manner; the wages for home care workers must be raised to a level appropriate to their care work; the services provided by home care workers should be explicitly stipulated; and, to eliminate occupational hazards, environments for fostering cordial relationships between recipients and home care workers must be developed.
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