비혼자녀와 부모의 동거: 관계 특성과 생활만족도 ; Coresidence between Unmarried Children in Established Adulthood and Older Parents in Korea: Associations between Relationship Characteristics and Life Satisfaction

학위논문 (석사) -- 서울대학교 대학원 : 생활과학대학 아동가족학과, 2021. 2. 이재림. ; Although intergenerational coresidence with unmarried children aged 35 years and older has increased in Korea due to the delayed marriage and no-marriage trends, the literature on coresidence between unmarried children in established adulthood and their parents has been limited. The purpose of this study was to examine which aspects of coresident relationships were associated with life satisfaction for both the parents and their adult unmarried children. The aspects of coresident intergenerational relationships included exchange of support, emotions, interference-conflict, and the perceptions of coresidence. Participants in this study included two groups: (a) 250 never married adults who were 35+ years and lived in Seoul with at least one parent younger than 75 years of age and (b) 250 older adults who were younger than 75 years old and had at least one unmarried child aged 35 years or older in the same household in Seoul. The adult child sample and the parent sample were not from dyads and were analyzed separately using multiple regression. In the adult child model, gender, age, subjective socioeconomic status, and parental health were controlled for, and in the parent model, gender, age, subjective socioeconomic status, parental health, and the coresident adult childs gender and age were controlled for. Using the coresident adult child sample, the regression analysis found that those who perceived that upstream financial support was greater than downstream financial support, who lived with their parents because they mentally depended on their parents or because their parents mentally depended on the coresident adult child, and who had better quality parent-child relationships were more likely to report higher life satisfaction. In contrast, coresident adult children tended to report lower levels of life satisfaction if they perceived that they experienced more frequent daily conflicts with their parents, their parents interfered with their daily lives, ...