The social crisis and the elderly care problems caused by an aging population issue are concerned. Baby boom generation has a burden for supporting their parents that is a factor of social unrest.
The country is responsible for the elderly support because the support socialization recognition has expanded for these reasons. It is more difficult to expect a responsibility to support elderly from the family members and the family support capabilities reach to the limitation.
However, since the July 2008 introduction of long term care insurance multifaceted research studies were done, there was no study about the support socialization consciousness in members of society.
The purpose of this study is targeted at baby boomers, determined the impact on the consciousness of supporting for the elderly by the familism of the baby boom generation, and analyzed the mediation effect of the support socialization consciousness in the relation with the familism, the elderly support consciousness, and each sub-factors of the support consciousness.
The familism and the support socialization consciousness of baby boomers are not the restrictive measures of the welfare provision from the government. Rather, the family of functions may be applied with a basis of to enhance positively. Therefore, the implications of the elderly support policy can be presenting.
The established research problems in this study are following:
What are the general tendency of the familism, support socialization consciousness, and elderly support consciousness of the baby boomer generation?
What are the differences?
What is the relationship with each other?
Does support socialization consciousness have the mediation effect of the two variables?
On the basis of the research problem, in order to achieve the objectives of this study, the familism, the support socialization consciousness, and the consciousness of supporting for the elderly of the baby boomer generation examine to understand the general tendency.
Moreover, the familism, support socialization consciousness, and the consciousness of supporting for the elderly including sub-factors examine to identification of differences depending on the demographic information as a control variable.
After correlation analysis is done, influence between independent variables and the dependent variable from the support socialization consciousness as a mediator variable will be analyzed to indication of mediator effects.
Data analysis of this study was via the data coding and the data cleaning process, by using a SPSS(v.20.0) statistical program package. Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation, etc.) was performed and for the validation t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation and hierarchical regression analysis were conducted. In addition, Duncan Test as the post verification was processed. If the absolute value of the correlation coefficient between the variables is shown above 0.80, the mathematically calculation may be difficult or may cause instability problems. Therefore, through the Relationship between variables, multicollinearity of data was investigated.
First, according to the mediator effect on the relationship between variables of the survey results, the familism influenced positively to the elderly support consciousness.
The familism was more conventional; the elderly support consciousness was high. Also the support socialization consciousness was getting higher; the consciousness of supporting for the elderly was reduced.
These results meant the scores of familism and the scores of support socialization consciousness acted as a cancel each other with the elderly support consciousness.
Thus, the support socialization consciousness impacted partially mediated effects on the elderly support consciousness of baby boomer. Due to the rapid industrialization and change in values, the elderly support in change of awareness about the role and function of the family was getting out of the category of the family
Next, according to the mediator effect of the support socialization consciousness of sub-factors between the familism and the elderly support consciousness, the familism gave the greatest impact on the emotional support consciousness. It is interpreted that the emotional support consciousness of the elderly was primary the subject of the family as preferable.
The support socialization consciousness gave a significant impact on the physical support consciousness that baby boomer had a physical burden in their elderly parents supporting. On the other hand, the support socialization consciousness was high, especially the physical support consciousness by using the elderly day care centers and long term care insurance services.
To conclude, in the relationship between the familism and the elderly support consciousness, the support socialization consciousness as a mediator variable is to increase the overall explanatory power and had partially mediator effects.
It shows that private support system be maintained with encourage the elderly support consciousness of family and that needs social atmosphere, improve consciousness, practical benefits and support measures for supporting family.
Furthermore, the budget for the support socialization of the government and policies will also be established.