A Study on the Types of Satisfaction with the Community Environment and Life Satisfaction of the Elderly

This study aims to verify the relationship between the types of satisfaction with thecommunity environment of the elderly and their life satisfaction. To this end, the panel dataof the Survey on the Status of the Elderly (2020) were used. As a result of the analysis, first,as a result of the latent profile analysis of the types of satisfaction with the communityenvironment of the elderly, the low community environment satisfaction group, the mediumcommunity environment satisfaction group, and the high community environment satisfactiongroup were finally selected. Second, when the low community environment satisfaction groupwas set as the reference group and compared with the medium community environmentsatisfaction group, age group, marital status, highest level of education, health status, andbasic livelihood receipt were statistically significant. Compared with the high communityenvironment satisfaction group, marital status, highest level of education, health status, basiclivelihood receipt, frequency of contact with friends, neighbors, and acquaintances, desire tocontinue living while maintaining health, level of social respect, and depression werestatistically significant. Third, the marital status, highest level of education, health status,frequency of contact with acquaintances, friends, and neighbors, desire to continue livingwhile maintaining health, and level of social respect of the elderly had a positive (+) effecton life satisfaction, but gender, receipt of basic livelihood security, and depression had anegative (-) effect on life satisfaction. Fourth, it was confirmed that the low communityenvironment satisfaction group among the types of community environment satisfaction groupsof the elderly compared to the reference group and the middle and high communityenvironment satisfaction groups had higher life satisfaction. This study is significant in that itcategorized the elderly's satisfaction with their community environment into three types andverified the influence of predictive factors for each type, and based on this, suggestedpractical and policy measures to improve the elderly's satisfaction with their communityenvironment and enhance their life satisfaction.