A Study on Married Female Immigrants Life Style and Marriage Satisfaction in Terms of Preparing Their Old Age in Chungcheongnam-do Department of Gerontology, Hoseo University Doctoral Student : Hi Ran Son Associate Professor : Sun Hee Song <Abstract> The purpose of the present study was to examine married female immigrants life style and marriage satisfaction on the perception of preparing their old age. We also investigated how socio-demographic factors influence their Preparation for old age. For the study, -data were collected from 350 questionnaires obtained from female immigrants living in Chungcheongnam-do. Cronbach s α tests were conducted for reliability, and regressional analysis was conducted to test our hypotheses. The results of this study shows that there is evidence of relations among the sub-variables. However, we found attitudes to safety and material pursuit are not related to married female immigrants preparations for their old age. On the other hand, the results indicate that their life style and marriage satisfaction influences their perception of preparing their old age in a positive way. Finally, sociodemographic factors such as gender, age, education, marriage status, occupation and income are shown to affect the women s perception of preparing their old age positively. (married female immigrants), (perception of preparing their old age), (life style), (marriage life satisfaction) Corresponding Author : Sun Hee Song, Department of Gerontology, The Graduate School of Venture, Hoseo University, 9 Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 137-867, Korea Tel: +82-41-560-8211 E-mail: shsong@hoseo.edu - 57 -

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