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Title:

Effects of Household Structure on Elderly Grocery Shopping Behavior in Korea

Accession Number:

01478197

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Traditionally, Koreans in their old age tend to reside with adult children and receive physical and psychological support from them. This feature may have positive effects on the quality of life for the elderly. However, recent official statistics show Korea’s soaring elderly households residing without adult children, indicating a need to examine the effects of household structure on the elderly. In this context, first, this study explored the effects of household structure on elderly grocery shopping behavior with a focus on grocery shopping frequency, accompanying behavior, and enjoyment with grocery shopping activities by estimating full structural equation models. In addition, aggregate urban modeling applications on the relationship between accessibility and trip/tour frequency commonly produce either non-significant or negative associations which violate the basic economic theory, that is, lower travel cost leads to more travel. The authors conjectured that individuals’ subjective satisfaction with activities could lead to such unreasonable results. Therefore, the other objective of this study is to identify the possible causes to lead the unreasonable relationship between accessibility and trip/tour frequency. First of all, a hypothesized single population model was statistically tested by estimating a full structural equation model. Second, the entire survey dataset was segmented into four comparison groups by four dichotomous segmentation variables. The results showed that co-residence with adult children and better family relationship significantly alleviate the difficulties of the elderly such as elderly physical mobility and residential accessibility to grocery shopping places, consequently improving grocery shopping enjoyment of the elderly and the quality of life.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Traveler Behavior and Values.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-2406

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Seo, Sang-Eon
Ohmori, Nobuaki
Harata, Noboru

Pagination:

179

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Grocery shopping

Geographic Terms:

Korea

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-2406

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:31PM