본 연구의 목적은 문화센터에서의 미술활동이 장 노년기의 내 외적인 삶에 어떠한 영향을 주는지 탐색하고, 더 나아가 미술활동이 그들의 삶의 만족도와 가치관에 어떠한 영향을 주는지 밝히는 것이다. 연구방법은 참여적 실행연구에 따른 질적 연구 방법론을 적용하여, 2013년 12월부터 2014년 4월까지 총 5개월 동안 미술활동을 하는 장 노년층들의 수업에 연구자가 직접 참여하여 연구 참여자의 지속적인 관찰을 통한 참여관찰일지 심층면담 녹취를 한 자료들을 분석하여 연구결과를 도출하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 연구참여자의 내적변화에서는 장 노년기 특유의 외로움, 마음불안정, 우울함 등이 미술활동을 통해 치유되었다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 둘째, 미술활동을 통해 목적의식이 없었던 노년기의 삶에 새로운 도전을 꿈꿀 수 있었고, 또한 서로를 이해하고 배려하는 안정적인 삶을 찾을 수 있었다는 연구결과를 도출하였다.

In this study was investigated the value of rural residence in later life from the personal, regional, and national perspective. For this purpose, a three-round Delphi technique was used to collect data through a series of surveys to obtain the consensus of a group of 38 experts in value of rural residence in later life in the future. In the first round was sent to them unstructured questionnaire and in the second and third round, the summarized results of the first and second round were delivered to rate the importance of each item for confirmation and validation of the results. Data were analyzed using content analysis and descriptive statistics. The major findings of this study are as follows: First, the personal, regional, and national value of rural residence in later life was selected 7 domains 23 items, 4 domains 22 items, and 3 domains 20 items respectively. Experts consented that the value from the personal perspective will be the highest among 3 perspectives. Second, as the value of rural residence from the personal perspective, it was showed nature-friendly life, physical health emotional serenity, lower expenditure, enjoyable filming, feeding the safe food, and etc,. As the value of it from the regional perspective was showed usage of retirees' speciality and experience to community development and the increase of recreational function in the rural. Also, from the national perspective, it was showed the sustainability of the rural, the establishment of welfare base, balanced development between regions. Based on these results, policy implications were discussed.