Are Koreans Prepared for the Rapid Increase of the Single-Household Elderly? Life Satisfaction and Depression of the Single-Household Elderly in Korea

Table 2

GDS and SWLS by multiple comparisons.

Variables	Categories	GDS			SWLS
		Mean	SD	𝑡 or 𝐹	Mean	SD	𝑡 or 𝐹
Gender	male	15.97	7.14	2.12 (0.035*)	13.00	5.12	−4.05 (0.000**)
	female	13.74	6.99		15.82	4.47
Age (years old)	65–70	2.11	1.24	1.64 (0.182)	2.19	0.95	3.73 (0.012*)
	71–80	1.90	1.19		2.80	1.14
	81–90	1.90	1.22		2.96	1.12
	90<	3.33	1.16		2.67	0.58
Coping resource	have	13.62	6.88	−3.16 (0.002*)	15.01	4.83	−0.03 (0.970)
	lack	17.18	7.23		15.04	4.85
Human resource	have	12.05	6.09	−7.17 (0.000**)	15.94	4.78	3.86 (0.000**)
	lack	18.42	6.92		13.43	4.48

^∗𝑃<0.05; **𝑃<0.001.