복지전공 대학생들의 노인태도에 관한 한·일 비교연구

Abstract

Korea and Japan have exchanged a lot from old times and they are close to each other geographically and have a lot of common things also in religion such as Confucianism and Buddhism. So it needs to understand the attitude toward the aged in both countries because both countries have the similar issues like aging speed as well as the similarity in social and cultural situation. In preparation for the aging society, it needs to compare the attitude toward the aged in both countries and to find if there is a difference between the two countries and what kind of variables were adapted in order to renew the positive awareness about the aged and to explore the direction to provide the chance of interaction between generations. For this purpose, the survey was conducted for 180 Korean college students and 190 Japanese college students who major in social welfare. The main results of this research are as follows. First, regarding the social demographic characteristics and the comparison of the attitude toward the aged, there was a significant difference only in Korean subjects. That is, in case of the students who had no religion and had experienced volunteer works, the attitude toward the aged was more positive. And also in the comparison of the attitude toward the aged according to their knowledge about the aged, there was a significant difference only in Korean subjects. That is, the attitude toward to the aged was more positive as the knowledge about the aged became higher (F=4.70, p<.05). Second, regarding the knowledge and attitude toward the aged, as for the correct answer rate of the knowledge about the aged, in case of Korea, the average point was 12.09 ± 0.20 out of 24 and the average correct answer rate was 50.39%, and in case of Japan, the average point was 10.57 ± 3.07 and the average correct answer rate was 44.08% which was lower than the case of Korea. Regarding the attitude toward the aged, it was 84.33 out of 140 in case of Korea. That was in the neutral range but lower than the Japanese point of 87.92, which means the Korean attitude is more negative than Japanese.