Age, Gender, and Residential Area Differences in Perception of Well-Being Conditions for Life in Old Age.
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- OSKIRO Yoshitake
- Okinawa Christian Junior College
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- 高齢期の生活における快適性条件の認知の年齢差,性差,地域差に関する研究
- コウレイキ ノ セイカツ ニ オケル カイテキセイ ジョウケン ノ ニンチ ノ
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Abstract
Based on questionnaire survey for 968 subjects, consisting of young (high school students), adult (25-64 years old) and elderly (65 years or over) groups, in three areas of Okinawa Prefecture, this paper elucidated what conditions are perceived to contribute to well-being in old aged persons, paying special attention to the differences by age, gender and residential area. The major findings were as follows. 1. Among all subjects pooled, housing and residential condition, which enables the elderly to live safely, and improvement and maintenance of physical fitness were perceived as significant factors for well-being for the aged persons, but calm living condition without bothering human relations and autonomous lifestyle of married couules were not. 2. By age groups, the adult and elderly groups particularly recognized significance of improvement and maintenance of physical fitness while the young group that of housing and residential condition. 3. Males tended to perceive improvement and maintenance of physical fitness as the important factors and females did housing and residential condition. 4. The residents of Ogimi village (thinly populated, agricultural area) and Irabu town (isolated, agricultural and fishing area) perceived living environments as the important factors while those of Urasoe city did improvement and maintenance of physical fitness.
Journal
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- Japanese Journal of Health and Human Ecology
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Japanese Journal of Health and Human Ecology 64 (6), 361-373, 1998
The Japanese Society of Health and Human Ecology
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282679983309184
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- NII Article ID
- 10011271827
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- NII Book ID
- AN00236886
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- ISSN
- 1882868X
- 03689395
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- NDL BIB ID
- 4622056
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
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- CiNii Articles
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- Disallowed