The relationship between happiness levels of middle-aged male workers with family relationships, non-family relationships and job satisfaction
AUTHOR : 곽금주,민하영,김경은,최지영,전숙영
INFORMATION : page. 115~133 / 2011 Vol.18 No.3
ABSTRACT
This study investigated the relationship between middle-aged male workers\' family relationships(the child,
spouse and parental relationships), non-family relationships(relationships with friends and coworkers) and job
satisfaction with happiness. The participants were 618 married middle age men, aged between 40 and 59,
and who held jobs in Seoul or Gyeonggi Province. The data thus collected were analyzed by means pf
MANOVA, Pearson\'s correlation, hierarchical and step multiple regressions, using SPSS 17.0. The results
are as follows. (1) There was no significant difference in family relationships(the child, spouse and parental
relationships), non-family relation(friend relationship, coworker relationship), job satisfaction and happiness by
age. (2) There was a significant relationship between relationships(the child, spouse and parental
relationships), non-family relationships(relationships with friends and coworkers) and job satisfaction with
happiness for those aged their 40s and 50s. There was also a difference in the strongest predictor variable
of men in their 40s men and in their 50s in terms of happiness. In the case of men in their 40s, job
satisfaction was the strongest predictor of happiness among all variables. However. in the case of men in
their 50s, positive spousal relationships was the strongest predictor of happiness among all variables.