일부지역 중년여성의 성역할 태도와 폐경관리

Abstract

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations between middle aged women's sex-role attitude and management of menopause. Methods : The study subjects were 101 middle aged women selected conveniently. The data were collected from April 10 to June 7, 2003 using questionnaires and were analyzed by using the SPSS program with frequency, mean, t-test, ANOVA, and the Pearson correlation coefficient. Results : The mean score of middle aged women's sex-role attitude was 56.13, which represented modern characteristics. The sex-role attitude was significantly different according to the age(F=7.00, p＜ 0.01), educational level(F=8.74, p＜ 0.01), occupation(F=3.08, p＜0.05), number of living children(F=3.13, p＜0.05), monthly income(F=4.15, p＜0.01), duration of marriage(F=6.87, p＜0.05). There was no significant correlation between the middle aged women's sex-role attitude and management of menopause. However, the management of sexual activity among the management of menopause showed significant correlation with sex-role attitude(r=0.214, p＜0.05). And management of sexual activity showed a negative correlation with social and family reaction(r=-0.503, p＜0.01), physical and physiological reactions(r=-0.258, p＜0.05), psychiatric and psychological reactions(r=-0.332, p＜0.01) among menopausal symptoms. The middle-aged women's sex-role attitude showed a low negative correlation with physical and physiological reactions(r=-0.215, p＜0.05), psychiatric and psychological reactions(r=-0.246, p＜0.05), relationship with sexual partner(r=-0.221, p＜0.05) among menopausal symptoms. Conclusions : Based on this study, a more modern sex-role attitude will help better manage the sex life of middle-aged women and will decrease menopausal symptoms. Therefore, the sex-role attitude will act as an intervening factor for the management of the menopausal women.