1994 Volume 38 Issue 5 Pages 375-386
The present study was designed to examine factors related to perceived health of the eldely. The data was obtained through questionnaries distributed to 604 (240 males, 364 females) elderly people, and X^2 test and Quantification Theory II were applied to the data. Main findings are as follows: 1. As the result of X^2 test between good-perceived health people and poor-perceived health people, the followinng nine factors have statistically significant (p<0.05). They are "presently working or not", "having roles or not in the neighborhood", "seeing physicians or not", "frequency of seeing physicians", "friendship network", "ADL (Activity of daily living)", "MPI・E scale", "MPI・N scale", and "MPI・L scale". 2. As the result of Quantification Theory II analysis, 7 factors such as presently working or not, having roles or not in the neighborhood, seeing physicians or not, friendship network, frequency of doing sports or exercise, ADL and MPI・N scale show a significant canonical correlation of R = 0.599 with good-poor perceived health of the elderly people. 3. The factor of the most strongly related to determining good-poor perceived health is MPI・N scale. In addition, friendship network and frequency of doing sports or exercise respectively show the second and the third strongest association with good-poor perceived health. In otherwise, ADL, presently working or not, having the significant role in the neighborhood or not, and seeing physicians or not are, respectively lesser association with good-poor perceived health. 4. As to each category of factors, lesser neuroticism, doing sports or exercise frequently and much friendship network, respectively promote to let the elderly determine better perceived health.
