가족관계 만족 및 대인신뢰에 따른 존엄사 태도의 차이

초록

With the development of medical technology, the population has aged, the average life expectancy has been extended, and the number of chronically ill patients has increased significantly. A social issue, whether patients with painful terminal diseases have the right to commit suicide as a way of stopping life-sustaining treatment, has emerged. The study analyzed how people's attitudes toward death with dignity differ by their satisfaction with family relationships and interpersonal trust. Data from the 2018 Korean General Social Survey conducted by the Survey Research Center at Sungkyunkwan University were used, and logit analysis was conducted on 853 cases. In addition to satisfaction with family relationships and interpersonal trust, the analysis considered background variables such as gender, age, education level, income, subjective health level, household arrangement, and religion. A model considering only background variables showed that people with a higher income level were likely to agree on death with dignity, and people who believed in Buddhism or Protestantism were likely to disagree on death with dignity compared to people with no religion. Satisfaction with family relationships and interpersonal trust variables had a significant relationship with attitudes toward death with dignity, even after controlling for background variables. People who were dissatisfied with their family relationships and generally did not trust people were likelier to have a positive attitude toward death with dignity. In other words, an individual's attitude toward death with dignity was inverse to perceived satisfaction with family relationships and interpersonal trust. It is hoped that the results of the above research will contribute to establishing a basis for forming a social discourse on death with dignity in Korea.

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