Abstract

This paper examines the relationships between lifelong education service quality, education satisfaction, self-efficacy, and successful aging of the elderly in lifelong education facilities for the elderly, and to suggest implications. To achieve the purpose of this paper, a survey was conducted on the elderly who had experience participating in lifelong education facilities in Busan and Gyeongnam, and 276 cases were used for the final survey analysis. Reliability and validity of the collected data were reviewed, and hypotheses were verified through structural equation modeling.BR As a result of the study, first, it was confirmed that the tangible, reliability sub-factors of lifelong education service quality, except for empathy, had a positive effect on the educational satisfaction of the participating elderly, respectively. Second, educational satisfaction has the significant positive effect on self-efficacy and successful aging, respectively. Third, self-efficacy also has a significant positive effect on successful aging. Based on these research results, the importance of quality of lifelong education service is suggested in the successful aging of the elderly, and it is required necessary that the elderly need to have the provision of opportunities for lifelong education programs considering the various needs of the elderly such as psychological factors.

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