우리나라 대학생의 노인부양에 관한 의식조사 연구

Abstract

In the contemporary society, a grave change of culture and the value standard of individuals, especially the change of the notion of the family have seriously affected the consciousness of the support for the aged. We live in a society where nuclear family is regarded as a better system for affectious relations among family members than the traditional large family in which three or four generations live in the same house, The life style of nuclear family seems to provide better chance to remove difficulties and inconveniences of the relationship among family members, because they can meet each other upon need and escape from the burden of unnecessary meeting. Thus, the life pattern in the comtemporary society is not the traditional one which builds up in a certain place where family live generation to generation, but a new one which is constituted in the age of globalization and global village. This study has two aims to investigate. The one is to explain the college students' consciousness on the support for the aged, who are the supporters for the aged in the future, the other is to find the alternative for the welfare policy about the aged and the program for the old age. This research focuses on the followings: 1) the consciousness and attitude toward the aged, 2) the consciousness on the support for the aged, 3) the consciousness on the self-support in their old age in the future, 4) the consciousness on the support for the aged in terms of finance, emotion, and service. And this research focuses at investigating the problems and the solutions for the support for the aged in the lower income groups. For this purpose, this research makes an assumption in respect to the factors of the social relationship. In addition to literature research, this study used questionnalre to carry out the consciousness survey through random sampling of 650 students (214 male students, 437 female students) who live in Seoul city. This study draws the following conclusions, It is decreasing that children should support for their parents. It is not necessarily the eldest son who should support for their parents. However, it is an increasing consciousness that anyone with financial capacity regardless of son or daughter should support their parents. In financial aspect, parents' financial independence in some degree and sharing expenses among children are the favoured system. It was naturally accepted that women should take care of her husband's parents after marriage. But in the case of the only son and the only daughter, according to the survey, the only son does not want support for his parents, to the contrary, the only daughter, if the situation allows, wants to support for her parents. Through the research, we can know that to live in separation with parents is increasingly favoured, although they have unclear attitude between the traditional filial piety and individualism and nuclear family system in the contemporary society. For the problem of the support for the aged in the lower income groups, government pension and financial aids are regarded as most favoured solutions.