코로나19 이후 노인 정서 변화 유형 결정에 영향을 미치는 요인

Abstract

This study was attempted to find the factors that affected the types of emotional change in the elderly after COVID-19. Using the panel data at two longitudinal points in 2018 and 2020 among ‘Chuncheon Elderly Living Condition Survey’, the types of emotional change were categorized into normal sustained, depression transition, depression sustained, and normal recovery type. The effects of demographic characteristics and lifestyle changes after COVID-19 on the types of emotional change were analyzed. As a result, when pain and quality of sleep worsened, or frequency of calls with children/friends/neighbors and meeting frequencies with siblings/friends decreased, probability of belonging to depression transition type increased compared to normal sustained type. In addition, when number of meals increased, or meeting frequencies with friends and frequency of calls with siblings increased, probability of belonging to normal recovery type increased compared to depression sustained type. Based on the results, the alternatives are proposed to prevent depression caused by the effects of COVID-19 and to restore the depressed emotions to the normal state.