Effects of Residential Environment on Life Satisfaction Among the Middle-aged: Focused on the Moderating Effects of Social Capital

중장년층의 주거환경이 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향: 사회적 자본의 조절효과를 중심으로

  • Lim, Sun Mi (Graduate School of Venture at Hoseo University) ;
  • Lee, Bo Young (Graduate School of Venture at Hoseo University)
  • 임선미 (호서대학교 벤처대학원) ;
  • 이보영 (호서대학교 벤처대학원)
  • Received : 2015.12.09
  • Accepted : 2015.12.22
  • Published : 2016.02.29

Abstract

In the 21st century when people're pursuing the qualitative improvement of life, the concern about the quality of housing is growing as living standards have been improved and the desire for life has been various. Life satisfaction can be found that basic needs of residential satisfaction have been met in life, and the quality of life will be higher with the fulfillment of these desires. Humans all live in social relations, which have a big impact on the quality of life of individuals in a variety of aspects. Thus, this researcher tried to investigate middle-aged people's residential environment and the actual situation of social capital and to examine the effect of social capital on the relationship between residential environment satisfaction and life satisfaction through an empirical study. The survey was conducted for middle-aged people to collect data, 500 copies of a questionnaire were distributed and 490 of them were collected, and then the actual analysis of 484 copies without missing values was done using SPSS Ver. 21.0. As a result, first, middle-aged people's residential environment had a significant effect on life satisfaction. Second, moderating effects of social capital between middle-aged people's residential environment satisfaction and life satisfaction showed a partly significant influence. Depending on these results, the researcher try to offer the direction for the improvement of the quality of life to middle-aged people and useful data to establish Korea housing policy.

삶의 질적 풍요로움을 추구하는 21세기에 생활수준이 향상되고 삶에 대한 욕구가 다양해짐에 따라 주거의 질에 관한 관심이 점점 커지고 있다. 삶의 만족도는 주거만족이라고 하는 기본적 욕구가 충족된 생활로 볼 수 있으며 이러한 욕구의 충족으로 삶의 질은 높아질 것이다. 인간은 누구나 사회관계를 맺으며 생활하고, 사회관계는 다양한 측면에서 개인들의 삶의 질에 큰 영향을 미치고 있다. 이에 중장년층의 주거환경과 사회적 자본의 실태를 알아보고 주거환경과 삶의 만족도와의 관계에서 사회적 자본이 미치는 영향을 실증연구를 통해 밝히고자 하였다. 이에 본 연구는 자료 수집을 위해 중장년층을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였고, 설문지 500부를 배포하여 490부를 수거한 후 결측값이 없는 484부를 SPSS Win Ver. 21.0을 이용하여 실증 분석하였다. 분석결과 첫째, 중장년층의 주거환경이 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향을 분석한 결과 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 중장년층의 주거환경과 삶의 만족도 간에 사회적 자본의 조절효과를 분석한 결과 부분적으로 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 연구결과에 따라, 향후 중장년층의 보다 만족스러운 삶의 질 향상을 위한 방향과 우리나라 주거정책 수립에 유용한 기초자료를 제공하고자 한다.

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