Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of social support exchange and conflict between elders and their children on depression of the Korean elders. Relationship with children was used as an independent variable. This variable was investigated with the exchange of social supports (receiving and offering) in addition to the influences of the conflicts with children which have been getting less interests by researchers. This study analyzed single elders and couple household elders who had one or more child who not live together, using Korean Nationwide Elders Data set which obtained in 2017. Multiple regression was used to analyze the data. During the procedure, gender, age, education, job, number of child, self-reported health, were added as control variables. The results showed that providing support to their children and conflict with children were related to the depression score both single and couple household. On the other hand, receiving support from children was not significantly related to the elder’s depression. This research suggested that setting up condition which there would not be conflict with children and providing support to children instead of receiving support are very important factors to reduce depression of elders.
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