| This study attempts to investigate Korean immigrant elderly's present life situations and church life as well as their expressions on generativity and integrity. Twenty Korean immigrant elderly were interviewed. Four different groups emerged from the study: Marginal people, Surviving people, Managing people, and Integrated people. Each of the four groups shows its distinctive characteristics differentiating itself from the other groups.;Marginal people suffer with helplessness, identity diffusion, lack of hope, and anomie. They do not show any strong desire for the need to be needed and legacy leaving. Their church life also does not show a positive picture.;Surviving people still suffer with identity diffusion, anomie, and lack of hope even though they have the family or relative support unlike marginal people. They show their parental generativity, but their desire for symbolic immortality is weak. Their images for church are negative.;Managing people show their strong family relationship. Even though they still do not solve the problems of the lack of hope and anomie, they show the desire on technical generativity and symbolic immortality. Their images for church are positive.;Integrated people show strong life satisfaction even though their resources for acculturation might be limited. They have strong hope for their future and their descendants. They show cultural generativity and the strong desire for symbolic immortality. Their images for church are service-oriented.;This study confirms that Korean immigrant elderly are not an homogeneous people. They are different from each other. |
