Effect of Social Exclusion of the Elderly in Single-Person Households on Subjective Expectations : Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Quality of Life

This study was conducted to verify the mediating effect of quality of life in therelationship between the social exclusion of the elderly in single-person households on subjective expectations. As for the analysis data, 1,006 elderly people from single-personhouseholds were selected as research subjects using ｢The 9th Aging Research Panel Survey｣of the Korea Employment Information Service(2022). The results of this study aresummarized as follows. First, as a result of analyzing the effects of social exclusion(employment, health, income, participation in social activities) and living standardexpectations, which are sub-factors of subjective expectations, it was found that healthexclusion had a negative effect on living standard expectations. Second, as a result ofanalyzing the effects of social exclusion (employment, health, income, participation in socialactivities) and social security expectations, which are sub-factors of subjective expectations, itwas found that exclusion of participation in social activities had a positive effect on socialsecurity expectations. Third, as a result of analyzing the effects of social exclusion(employment, health, income, participation in social activities) and social situationexpectations, which are sub-factors of subjective expectations, it was found that exclusion ofparticipation in social activities had a negative effect on social situation expectations. Fourth,in the relationship between social exclusion and subjective expectations of the elderly insingle-person households, the quality of life was found to be a complete mediating effect.