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The purpose of this study is to analyze the subjectivity perception of older generations on the cultivated aging. So, the first step is defining the concourse refered to the collection of all the possible statements that the respondents can make about ‘aging’. From the concourse, 34 statements, called Q-sample. were developed, and the Q-sample was sorted by 34 respondents, or P-sample who are composed of respondents over the 40s and 50s generations. By Q-factor-analysis, P-sample is sorted into four categories as follows: The results of the analysis are defined as four types. First, <Type Ⅰ> was named as “Life-style type”, <Type Ⅱ> was named as “Life is thinking type”, <Type Ⅲ> was named as “My Life type” and <Type Ⅳ> was named “Family Thinking type”. On the other hand, when I was in the perception of the back, the respondent showed a somewhat higher consensus of the whole idea, that the ‘family could think’ of a statement. In this study, we look forward to expanding our research to a wider range of targets in consideration of the limitations of generalization by utilizing the research methods of principal inertia. On the basis of the result from this analysis, a possibility of application of qualitative methodology as an exploratory study for the empirical research is expected.

Cultivated Aging, Subjective Study, Q methodology