불완전 판매로 인한 민원이 발생하고, 다양한 보험상품이 계속해서 출시되는 금융환경 속에서 금융소비자를 보호 하기 위해 보험회사를 규제하는 강력한 금융정책도 필요하지만 금융소비자 스스로 자신을 보호할 수 있는 역량도 키워나가야 한다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 금융소비자의 보험역량 수준을 파악하기 위한 『보험소비자역량』 척도를 개발하고, 그 척도를 이용하여 보험소비자역량 수준을 파악하였다. 이를 위해 전문가 의견 조사와 금융소비자 1,000명을 대상으로 온라인 설문조사를 실시하였다. 주요 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 선행연구와 전문가 의견 조사를 통해 문항을 구성하고, 측정타당화 과정을 통한 문항검증을 수행하여 타당 도와 신뢰도를 갖춘 문항들을 선별한 결과, 보험소비자태도 8문항, 보험소비자지식 37문항(보험용어 6문항, 보험상 품 11문항, 보험가입 단계별 20문항), 보험소비자기능 12문항을 최종 선정하였다. 둘째, 보험소비자역량 점수는 100점 만점에 55.56점으로 중간 수준을 약간 넘었으며, 하위영역별로는 보험소비 자지식(56.59점) > 보험소비자기능(55.22점) > 보험소비자태도(55.20)의 순으로 나타났다. 특히, 점수가 가장 낮은 보험소비자태도를 향상시키기 위해 보험회사는 금융소비자가 보험을 긍정적으로 인식할 수 있도록 적극적인 홍보활 동을 하고, 보험 관련 민원을 최소화하려는 노력이 필요하겠다. 셋째, 조사대상자의 일반적 특성에 따른 보험소비자역량 차이를 살펴본 결과, 인구사회학적 특성에서는 연령 및 학력이 높고, 직업이 경영/관리/전문직/사무/기술직이며, 자가와 전세에 거주하고 있고, 배우자가 있으며, 가족원수 가많고, 보험관련교육을받은경험이있는금융소비자의보험역량수준이높은것으로나타났다. 또한경제적특 성에서는 월평균 가계소득이 높고, 월평균 가계생활비 지출이 많은 금융소비자의 보험역량 수준이 높은 것으로 나 타났다.
In today's financial environment characterized by civil complaints about incomplete sales and ongoing launches of various insurance products, it is important for financial consumers to develop the capabilities needed to protect themselves as well as powerful financial policies to regulate insurance companies for their protection. This study thus set out to develop a scale of “insurance consumer competency” to figure out the level of insurance competency among financial consumers and examine the level of insurance consumer competency with the scale. For these purposes, the investigator conducted an online survey with 1,000 financial consumers as well as experts for their opinions. The main findings were as follows: First, the investigator devised a set of items based on previous studies and expert opinions, tested the items in the process of ensuring validity in measurements, and selected items both with validity and reliability. The final scale consisted of eight items on insurance consumers' attitudes, 37 on insurance consumers' knowledge(six on insurance terms, 11 on insurance products, and 20 on the stages of insurance purchasing), and 12 on insurance consumers' skills. Secondly, they scored 55.56 out of 100 in insurance consumer competency, and their scores were a little bit above the median point. Of the subareas, they scored the highest points in insurance consumers' knowledge(56.59), which was followed by insurance consumers' skills(55.22) and insurance consumers' attitudes(55.20) in the order. As part of efforts to improve insurance consumers' attitudes that scored the lowest points, insurance companies need to carry out active promotional activities and minimize civil complaints about insurance so that financial consumers will be able to consider insurance positively. Finally, the study examined differences in insurance consumer competency according to the general characteristics of the subjects and found that financial consumers' insurance competency were high according to the following sociodemographic characteristics: old age, high educational background, an occupation in business administration/management/profession/office/technical, living in one's own house or in lease, a spouse, many family members, and experiences with insurance-related education. As for economic characteristics, the level of insurance competency was high among financial consumers with high average monthly household income and high average monthly household living expenses.