Female Baby Boomers Research Articles

INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF HOMEBUYERS’ SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON PREFERENCES OF SUSTAINABLE AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Low- and middle-income groups face difficulties in homeownership because of the urbanisation and rising living standards, in which they rely heavily on the government’s housing provision. Yet, affordable housing provided in Malaysia has been repeatedly criticised as it is not up to homebuyers’ expectations and is not supported to reach sustainable goals. Hence, this research aims to investigate the influence of the sociodemographic background of the homebuyers on their preferences for sustainable affordable housing in Malaysia. The questionnaire was designed and responses were obtained from 316 low- and middle-income homebuyers. Spearman rank correlation and ordinal regression were used to investigate the association between homebuyers’ sociodemographic characteristics and their preference for sustainable affordable housing. Spearman correlation analysis revealed that gender, generation, marital status and monthly income were significantly correlated with sustainability criteria. The ordinal regression model reflected that stronger preferences for sustainable affordable housing were shown among female homebuyers, Gen Y and Baby Boomer homebuyers and married ones. The research findings close the gap between users (homebuyers) and the providers (developer/government) in the provision of affordable housing. Developers and the local authorities can provide sustainable affordable housing solutions that suit the needs of different homebuyers.

여성 베이비부머세대의 미용실 소비가치와 선택속성의 차이 연구

여성 베이비부머세대의 미용실 소비가치와 선택속성의 차이 연구

Factors affecting unmet healthcare needs in female baby boomers: Andersen model application in Korea.

This study aimed to measure unmet healthcare needs and investigate the factors affecting them in female baby boomers (individuals born between 1955 and 1963) using the Korea Health Panel Data 2017 from February to June 2017 by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and the National Health Insurance Corporation. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square test, t-test, and multiple logistic regression using SPSS WIN 25.0 program. The results showed that the proportion of unmet healthcare needs was 11.1%, and the primary reason for unmet healthcare needs was the lack of visitation time. Female baby boomers experienced more unmet healthcare needs when they had no spouse (1.63 times), eating problems (2.33 times), and stress (1.31 times). This study is significant because it measured the unmet healthcare needs of women in the baby boomer generation and identified the factors influencing unmet healthcare needs. The study's results can help provide essential data to decrease the unmet healthcare needs of female baby boomers.

'No, auntie, that's false': Challenges and resources of female baby boomers dealing with fake news on Facebook

The spread of fake news on social media networks is on the rise, prompting a special interest in identification and coping skills among news consumers so that they can filter out misleading information. Studies suggest seniors share more fake news on social media; despite this, there is little literature analysing how they behave when faced with fake news. This study examines how baby boomer women handle fake news on Facebook, and the role of family members in contributing to their digital literacy in dealing with this phenomenon. A qualitative thematic analysis study was conducted using information obtained from interviews; the findings revealed that participants recognised that they could identify fake news, but were not always able to do so because of a lack of supplemental information about the news’ context or doubt about its source. Interviewees also revealed that they turned to trusted family members to assist them in developing fake news identification and filtering skills.

포스트코로나 시대 한국 베이비부머 세대의 권장 신체활동량 달성 여부에 영향을 미치는 요소에 대한 분석

This study aimed to investigate the effects of demographic and sociological variables, depression, hypertension, diabetes diagnosis, obesity, and social distancing among the Korean baby boomers in the post-corona era on physical activity practice. Through the 2021 Community Health Survey (CHS), a complex sample frequency analysis, cross-analysis and logistic regression model were verified for a total of 18,234 male and 21,407 female baby boomers. As a result of the analysis, marital status, education level, depression, and diabetes were significantly related to the recommended physical activity in both males and females, and obesity was a significant factor in female baby boomer generation members. As a result of analyzing the relative influence through the Odd Ratio, if the physical activity level is arranged in descending order compared to the reference group, men with a high school education or less, women who experienced depression, women who were obese, men who experienced depression, women who were single, women who were under high school educational women, single men, women diagnosed with diabetes, and men diagnosed with diabetes. Policies related to physical activity should be promoted based on the results of this study. In the clinical field, it is necessary to first look at whether there is a mental illness in the process of establishing an exercise prescription strategy tailored to the baby boomer generation. Phenomenological studies related to the physical activity preference and restriction factors of the baby boomer generation should also be carried out in consideration of disease morbidity and sociological factors.

Constraints Of Participating In Physical Activity Among Korean Female Baby Boomers

Constraints Of Participating In Physical Activity Among Korean Female Baby Boomers

Female Baby Boomer’s Retirement Adjustment Process: Return to a life of self-care

본 연구는 여성 베이비부머의 은퇴 적응 과정을 탐색하기 위하여 베이비붐 세대 여성 은퇴자 12 명을 대상으로 면담 자료를 수집하고 근거이론 방법으로 자료를 분석하였다. 분석 결과 여성 베이비부머의 은퇴 적응의 중심 현상은 ‘양가적 자아상’, 은퇴 적응 결과는 양가적 자아상을 통합해가는 ‘노화지침의 개별화’이다. 은퇴 적응 현상에 대처해 가는 은퇴 적응 과정은 ‘자기 배려의삶으로 돌아 가기’의 세 단계로 구성되었다. 첫 번째 단계는 물리적, 관계적 측면의 노후 안전기반 재구축이었다. 두 번째 단계는 자기계발과 자기관리에 전념하는 자기 돌봄의 생활방식이었다. 세 번째 단계는 도리적 돌봄 역할과 적극적 돌봄 역할을 행하는 관계방식이었다. ‘자기 배려의 삶으로 돌아가기’는 노후 삶의 안전 기반과 의존하지 않는 독립성을 토대로 내부적으로는 자기 돌봄 생활방식을, 외부적으로는 타인 돌봄의 관계방식을 지향하는 나이 듦의 여정이었다. 세단계의 은퇴 적응 과정을 관통하는 핵심 범주로 도출된 ‘돌봄과 독립’은 은퇴 적응 과정에서 과거와 현재, 미래의 자아상을 통합해가는 중심 개념을 의미한다. 본 연구 결과의 시사점에 대하여논의하고 추후 연구를 위한 제언을 기술하였다. 본 연구는 ‘독립과 돌봄’의 핵심범주를 중심으로여성 베이비부머의 은퇴 적응에 관한 사회심리 현상의 주제와 요소를 설명하는 이론적 틀을 제시하였고, 여성 은퇴자의 상담 및 교육 프로그램 개발에 관한 새로운 시사점을 제공하였다는데의의가 있다.

Sibship size and educational attainment of Canadian baby boomers

PurposeThe present study assesses how sibship size affects child quality as measured by educational attainment.Design/methodology/approachThe data are from the Canadian General Social Surveys (GSS) of 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1995. The sample is restricted to the individuals born in Canada between 1946 and 1965, that is, the baby-boom generation. In addition to controlling for parental education, the sibship size is instrumented by a non-binary variable created based on the sex composition of the sibship. While most previous studies have pooled both genders, the present paper produces by gender estimatesFindingsThe OLS estimates are statistically significant, negative and moderately large for both male and female baby boomers. When the sibship size is instrumented, the estimates indicate that one additional sibling had reduced the educational attainment of male baby boomers by almost half a year. No causal effect for the sibship size is found for female baby boomers.Originality/valueThis is the first paper on the effects of sibship size on educational attainment, using Canadian data.

Screening Adult Children of Hepatitis C-Infected Baby Boomers: Barriers to Testing and Prevalence Estimates.

Screening Adult Children of Hepatitis C-Infected Baby Boomers: Barriers to Testing and Prevalence Estimates.

Is caregiving by baby boomer women related to the presence of depressive symptoms? Evidence from eight national surveys

BackgroundA common hypothesis is that caregiving is deleterious to women’s mental health. International studies continue to emphasize the importance of mental health issues for women. Yet only a few researchers have used population-based surveys to explore the association between caregiving and depressive symptomatology in the context of the community, and even less is known about this aspect of Baby Boomer women in a global context.MethodsThe present study uses eight international surveys covering nineteen nations (N = 15,100) and uses multilevel logistic models to examine possible linkages between caregiving and the likelihood of depressive symptoms among Baby Boomer women, when taking individual-level and country-level social factors into consideration.ResultsThe various analyses found a significant variation in the likelihood of depressive symptoms among these Boomer women across the nations investigated and across both individual-level and country-level characteristics. The significant association of caregiving by women and the likelihood of depressive symptoms is related to their social status in some nations (OR = 1.30; p < 0.001). Boomer women living in countries with high rates of female participation in managerial/professional work (OR = 1.04; p < 0.05) and living in countries where women are often in vulnerable employment (OR = 1.01; p < 0.05) are at greater risk of depressive symptomatology.ConclusionsThese findings demonstrate that the depressive consequences of caregiving by women are, to some degree, contingent upon social context and structure. Policies aimed at promoting mental health among female Baby Boomers should therefore be context specific.

Work-Family Conflict and Depression among Female Baby boomers in South Korea: Application of Latent Growth Model

본 연구는 베이비붐 세대 여성들의 일-가정갈등(Work-Family Conflict)과 우울의 변화궤적을 파악하고 두 변수간의 인과관계를 규명하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 한국복지패널(Korean Welfare Panel Study) 8차~12차 데이터를 활용하였고, 1955년에서 1963년 사이에 출생한 베이비붐 세대 여성 636명을 대상으로 일-가정갈등과 우울의 변화를 잠재성장모형을 활용하여 분석하였다. 주요 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 무조건적 모형 검증 결과, 일-가정갈등과 우울은 감소하는 경향을 나타내었으며, 초기값과 변화율의 개인차가 있음을 확인하였다. 둘째, 일-가정갈등과 우울의 조건적 모형 검증 결과, 일-가정갈등 초기값은 우울의 초기값에 정적으로 유의미한 영향을 미쳤고, 변화율 사이에도 정적으로 유의미한 영향이 나타나 인과관계가 확인되었다. 본 연구결과를 바탕으로 향후 노년기에 진입할 베이비붐 세대 여성들의 일-가정 갈등 및 우울에 대한 실천적, 정책적 함의 및 후속연구에 대한 제언을 논의하였다.The purpose of this study was to investigate the work-family conflict (WFC) and depressive trajectory of Korean female baby boomers and to clarify the causal relationship between two variables. For this purpose, this study used the 8th ~ 12th data from the Korean Welfare Panel Study and analyzed the changes in WFC and depression among 636 baby boomers who were born between 1955 and 1963 using a latent growth model. The main results are as follows. First, as a result of unconditional model verification, WFC and depression showed a tendency towards decreasing, and there were individual differences in initial values and rate of change. Second, as a result of the conditional model verification of WFC and depression, the initial WFC value had a significant positive effect on the initial value of depression. In addition, there was also a significant positive effect between the rate of change of WFC and depression, and causality was confirmed. Based on the results of this study, this study discusses practical and policy implications for WFC and depression of prospective baby boomers and provide suggestions for future studies.

A study of Canadian female baby boomers

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of baby boomers’ physiological and psychological needs through clothing consumption.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative research approach was employed for this study. Data were collected from two generational segments: early baby boomers (1946–1954), and late baby boomers (1955–1964). In total, 13 informants aged from 53 to 71 years were participated in this study. Content analysis and interpretive approach were used for data analysis.FindingsAccording to the findings, there are several reasons why the baby boomers shopped for clothing, including a way of stress relief or retail therapy, wardrobe update, replacement of worn-out garments, attractiveness of clothing styles and convenience. Style, fit, comfort and colour were the four most important product evaluative cues. Other than product cues, age appropriateness is an important factor for clothing consumption. Many informants were disappointed with their current body type, shopping experience and the industry offers.Practical implicationsAge-appropriate clothing can give wearers greater self-assurance/-gratification. If fashion designers create their products based on the baby boomers’ cognitive age, it would probably increase their customers’ acceptance and satisfaction.Originality/valueThe rapid growth of the aging population is a global phenomenon. Therefore, investigating the needs and challenges of the baby boomer generation is both timely and imperative. This study intended to offer new knowledge on the issues of baby boomers’ unmet needs, and provide insights and implications to fashion practitioners.

Demographics, the Third Age and partial retirement: Policy proposals to accommodate the changing picture of female retirement in Canada

ABSTRACTMuch concern has been raised around the potential impact of the retirement of the large baby boom generation. This article specifically addresses the unique issues surrounding the retirement of female baby boomers. Demographic changes, including increased labor force participation, coupled with declining fertility rates, have resulted in a social transformation of the roles women play in society. Despite these changes, women still bear much of the caregiving responsibilities in the household, which can complicate retirement choices. This article examines female retirement in the Canadian context and presents three policy proposals to expand women’s retirement choices, encourage longer-term labor force participation, and thereby extend their working lives into the Third Age.

An innovative teaching approach to product development: creating tennis wear for female baby boomers

To approach innovative teaching, prototype development of tennis wear for female baby boomers was incorporated into the product development course. This semesterlong project, fully funded by Cotton Incorporated, guided students in identifying the needs of female baby boomers who play tennis and then designing appropriate tennis wear. Twelve female tennis participants aged between 55 and 66 were interviewed in a focus group. To mirror fashion industry practice, students worked in teams including with real-world clients. The functional, expressive, and aesthetic consumer needs model (Lamb and Kallal in Cloth Text Res J 10:42–47, 1992) provided the conceptual framework for the project, and the students took the FEA design criteria into account when developing tennis wear prototypes that met the needs of the baby boomers. At the end of the semester, a panel of faculty judges who fall within the age group of baby boomers and who play tennis regularly evaluated the student groups’ work and selected the three winning teams using the following criteria: creativity, quality (i.e., construction, tech pack [garment measurements], and fit), presentation (i.e., storyboard and oral presentation), and readiness for production.

Analysis of Career Interrupted Female Baby Boomer’s Return to the Workforces

Analysis of Career Interrupted Female Baby Boomer’s Return to the Workforces

여성 베이비부머의 사회참여활동에 관한 질적 연구

The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomenon of social participation among female baby boomers. The key research questions were asked in what kind of activities do female baby boomers engage as social participation? The in-depth interview was used with 11 female baby boomers who were born between 1955 to 1963. The interview text were analyzed by the qualitative study method. The findings are as follows. First, the most common type of social participation was having hobbies and leisure activities, and the other were participating in religious activities, learning activities, volunteer activities and on-line club activities. Second, social participation gave them meanings such as joy, satisfaction, and experiences of seeing the new world as well as opportunities to make up low sense of self-esteem formed in their young age. Third, they were considering it was time to change their social participation. The cases who were actively engaging in social participation considered old age as ‘the process of reducing social participation’. Some other cases considered to ‘share hobbies with spouse’, and to ‘achieve new goals and dreams’. The results showed that female baby boomers started their social participation in their middle ages when they became free from their children’s education. The level of the involvement in social participation was reduced in their old age. Surprisingly, some interviewees planned to accomplish their dreams and goals that they haven’t achieved yet. These differences among the cases could be attributed to the individual characteristics such as personality, birth order, economic and educational background, and to the social relationship.

A Study on the Meaning of Korean Female Babyboomers’ Malling Behavior

A Study on the Meaning of Korean Female Babyboomers’ Malling Behavior

Exploring Female Baby Boomers’ Retirement Experiences in South Korea

Exploring Female Baby Boomers’ Retirement Experiences in South Korea

Understanding Taiwanese Female Baby Boomers through their Perceptions of Clothing and Appearance

The objectives of this study are twofold: (1) to provide insights and in-depth information regarding the impact of attitudes of female baby boomers in Taiwan toward aging through clothing, and (2) to understand how female baby boomers in Taiwan behave in different contexts in regard to clothing choice, usage and consumption. In order to understand how baby boomers think, feel and behave during the process of aging, clothing was selected as a vehicle to illuminate the complex relationships among various attributes—physiological and psychological change, dress and appearance, body image, lifestyle, and social activities. The qualitative research method was used to collect data from 14 mature female consumers ranging in age from 50 to 59 years. According to our findings, social activities and appropriate clothing styles can provide aging consumers self-assurance/-gratification as well as a healthy state of mind and spirit. It is evident that many Taiwanese baby boomers were concerned with modesty, age appropriateness, and physical and psychological comfort when it comes to apparel consumption. Although their bodies transformed with age, most of our informants expressed an acceptance and sense of comfort with their physical change, and they felt “young-at-heart”; therefore, chronological age is not a good indicator of consumer attitudes towards the evolving stages of life.

Professional women “rebalancing” in retirement: Time, relationships, and body

ABSTRACTThis is an interview-based study focused on how professional baby boomer women negotiate and narrate postretirement lives. This group came of age in the 1960s and represents a socially privileged segment of the baby boomer generation, a cohort that created new gendered pathways in employment. Today, these retired professional women are attempting to make sense of their multilayered complex and changing realities. In their accounts, the most salient themes are shifting identity, embodiment, and relationships. By using what we call a relational lens, we will show how many aspects of postretirement life, for these professional women, are mediated by changing relationships—relationships to time, work identity, friends and family, and body. Through these individual and relational contexts we see how female professional baby boomer retirees grapple with liberation and loss, autonomy and control, ongoing gendered work, and rebalancing in a new chapter of life. Perhaps most importantly, we see how learning about self in this stage of life, and perhaps across the life course, takes place largely in the context of relationships.