Factors Related to Depression and Mental Health That Affect the Quality of Life of the Elderly

Table 7

Quality of life according to general characteristics.

Variable	Classification	Mean (SD)	t	p
Gender	Male	80.31 (14.04)	3.882	0.05
	Female	87.11 (14.73)
Age (year)	65–69	88.73 (16.84)	0.661	0.671
	70–79	84.67 (13.96)
	≥80	87.00 (15.01)
Religion	Buddhism	86.12 (14.39)	2.673	0.275
	Christianity	78.21 (16.67)
	Catholic	82.41 (16.28)
	No religion	90.20 (12.73)
Education	Junior high school graduate	86.34 (14.71)	1.676	0.915
	High school graduate	81.95 (15.21)
	University graduate or higher	92.37 (12.85)
Marital status	Married	87.82 (14.16)	2.065	0.070
	Bereavement, separation, divorce	83.73 (15.28)
	Single	66.00 (0.00)
Living together	Couple	87.95 (14.41)	0.970	0.091
	Married children	85.38 (11.10)
	Unmarried children	83.71 (13.97)
	Alone	82.58 (17.60)
Number of children	0-1	65.45 (16.38)	2.082	0.010
	2	83.06 (15.49)
	3-4	88.72 (11.35)
	≥5	91.8 (12.28)
Dependent child	Has	86.57 (13.67)	2.791	0.097
	None	78.81 (22.92)
A person who usually cares and helps	Marriage partner	87.69 (14.84)	0.603	0.905
	Children	84.65 (13.70)
	Neighbors and others	85.63 (16.8)
Meeting	Senior citizen’s center	88.04 (11.72)	2.619	0.041
	Senior college	88.33 (21.65)
	Senior volunteer group	101.00 (6.08)
	None	82.40 (14.59)
Number of meetings	Once a week	90.97 (15.45)	3.764	0.003
	Once in two weeks	80.85 (10.25)
	Once a month	86.64 (10.95)
	Once in two months	81.71 (14.38)
Occupation status	Has	88.46 (15.09)	0.527	0.469
	None	85.49 (14.78)
Economic level	Low	97.55 (13.16)	10.201	0.001
	Medium	85.32 (13.28)
	High	77.55 (16.10)
Monthly allowance	≥100,000 won	82.04 (14.48)	1.708	0.033
	≥200,000 won	87.08 (9.85)
	≥300,000 won	83.12 (14.14)
	≥400,000 won	86.66 (16.06)
	≥500,000 won	91.13 (15.89)
Subjective health status	Very healthy	65.00 (12.44)	9.556	0.001
	Healthy	82.60 (13.55)
	Average	84.53 (14.24)
	Unhealthy	91.46 (9.85)
	Very unhealthy	110.80 (9.73)
Disease status	Has	84.82 (13.51)	1.233	0.269
	None	88.02 (17.13)