우리나라는 이미 고령시대에 접어들어 어느 때보다 은퇴 이후의 삶이 중요하게 되었다. 본 연구의 목적은 그동안 은퇴준비와 관련하여 연구되지 않았던 현 직장에서의 직무만족도와의 관련성을 규명하고, 이들 관계에서 노후생활인식이 매개변수로 작용 하여 직무만족도에 영향을 미치는 구조를 검증하고자 하는 것이다. 본 연구는 문헌적 연구를 통한 실증적 연구를 시행하였으며, 공무원을 대상으로 은퇴준비의 하위변인인 재정·주거준비, 경제활동준비, 건강관리 등이 직무만족도에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지와 노후생활인식의 매개역할을 검증하고자 했다. 이에 따라 독립변수를 은퇴준비, 종속변수를 직무만족도, 매개변수를 노후생활인식으로 각각 설정한 후, 그 하위변인을 구성하여 서로 간의 영향 관계를 분석하였다. 연구결과, 은퇴준비, 노후생활인식, 직무만족도 간의 영향관계에서 은퇴준비는 노후 생활인식과 직무만족도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 특히, 노후생활인식은 은 퇴준비와 직무만족도와의 영향 관계에서 매개역할을 하는 것으로 검증되었다.

This research tried to present some basic data necessary to give effective support to urban retirees who already returned to the farm by looking into factors effecting on their adjustments to the lives before they returned to the farm and after they did so to know how well they adapt to the rural lives. For the purpose, we made a survey of 408 returners to the farm over the age of 50 for 6 days from October 18 to October 23 in 2004 using questionaires. The results show the followings. First, there are significant difference in the satisfaction with the rural life occurred by the sociological demographic changes according to 'health condition', 'subjective economic ability' and 'previous job'. Second, the difference of satisfaction with the rural lift which was taken place by the reasons before they moved to the farm is effected considerably by what made them decide to return to the farm first whether they prepared for it or not and how much money they have to do so. Therefore, to succeed in adjustment to the rural lives, their decision should be made by positive causes, they have to prepare concretely for it before they carry out their plans and they had better have enough money to move. Third, the difference of satisfaction with the rural life occurred by the reasons after they moved to the farm is effected by 'satisfaction with the forming information', 'the number of friends or neighbors', 'the frequency of meeting the friendly', 'the level of intimacy with neighbors' and 'their efforts to improve the relations with other residents'. And the sensitiveness to perceive the inconvenience according to the rural life is related strongly to the satisfaction with the rural life in the above 6 areas. Fourth, the repression analysis implemented to find how much the above 3 factors effect on the satisfaction with the rural life shows that it is 'returner's current health condition', 'farming education', 'farming fund' and 'effort to be intimate with other residents' that are very important.