This research was conducted on elders aged 65 years old or older who commute to the senior center at
Gangbuk-gu, Seoul, as a survey of 232 elders from August 16, 2016, to September 15, 2016. The results
are as follows. First, the average of stress at a scale of 4 appeared to be highest on health stress 2.57,
followed by economic stress 2.07, sociopsychological stress 1.93, family relationship stress 1.92, residential
environmental stress 1.71. Second, the level of support at a scale of 5 was highest on information support
2.70, followed by emotional support 2.63, instrumental support 2.55, social activity support 2.22. Third, the
level of depression was in average 2.76 out of 5. Fourth, multiple regression analysis in order to validate
the effect of stress and social support on the level of depression depicts that the poor physical health
contributes to higher level of depression (β=-0.18, p<0.001), higher level of stress contributes to higher
level of depression (β=0.57, p<0.001), and social support level does not produce a statistically meaningful
correlation on the level of depression.