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 Volume 9, Issue 6 (June 2022), Pages: 16-25

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 Original Research Paper

 The effects of health status, leisure life, and social relationship satisfaction on depression of elderly people who live

 alone

 Author(s): Soyun Choi *

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Social Welfare, Namseoul University, Cheonan, South Korea

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4661-3123

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.06.003

 Abstract:

The increasing number of elderly people who live alone has raised serious social issues such as isolation, care problems, and lonely death. In particular, since elderly people who live alone have a higher rate of depression than general elderly people due to disconnection from good health and social life, it is necessary to promote health, form a social network, and increase leisure activities to prevent depression. Therefore, this study used data from the Korea Welfare Panel in 2020 and conducted a regression analysis to determine how much the health status, leisure life, and social relationship satisfaction of senior citizens who live alone explain the degree of depression. As a result of this study, it was found that the higher the education level of elderly people who live alone, the lower the feeling of depression, and the worse the health status, the higher the depression. The effect of education level on depression was significant with adjusted R2 .020 (p>.001), but the impact was not so great. However, in the regression model with health status added, ΔR2 increased by .151, confirming the effect of health status on depression. The explanatory power of the regression model, in which the variables of social relationship satisfaction and leisure life satisfaction were added, showed that the adjusted R2 was .203 (p>.001). That means that the higher the satisfaction with the social relationship and the higher the satisfaction with leisure activities, the lower the level of depression. Based on the results of analysis, this study proposes measures to prevent and respond to depression of elderly people who live alone. 

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Elderly people, Depression, Health status, Social relationship, Leisure activities, Gerontology

 Article History: Received 16 December 2021, Received in revised form 13 March 2022, Accepted 24 March 2022

 Acknowledgment 

Funding for this paper was provided by Namseoul University.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Choi S (2022). The effects of health status, leisure life, and social relationship satisfaction on depression of elderly people who live alone. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(6): 16-25

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