Abstract
This research involved 172 residents of various homes for the aged with a view to clarifying factors that regulate their subjective well-being. Focused in the study is the aged's relation with the specific child(ren) who is/are very close to them (more specifically, support given or giving, recognition of the relation, and expectation deriving from the relation). In other words, how or to what extent the subjective well-being is determined by what factors. The results of the analysis show that the factors to increase the subjective well being of the old people are: good financial status, good health, and relation with the child(ren), i.e., high support given or giving, high degree of positive recognition of the relation, low degree of negative recognition, and high dependency on the child(ren). It may be noted that the relation with the frequency of their contact and that their contact frequency indirectly affects the subjective well-being by way of the relation with the child(ren).
