Psychological and physical dimensions explaining life satisfaction among the elderly: A structural model examination

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• 作者：Juan Carlos Melé ; ndez ; José ; Manuel Tomá ; s ; Amparo Oliver ; Esperanza Navarro
• 关键词：Psychological well-being ; Activities of daily living ; Life satisfaction ; Structural equation model
• 刊名：Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：May-June 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：48
• 期：3
• 页码：291-295
• 全文大小：305 K

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The aim of the present paper is to analyze the effects of psychological well-being, physical functioning and socio-demographic factors on life satisfaction. Both a bivariate and a multivariate level of analyses have been used. Finally, a structural model explaining life satisfaction has been developed and validated. With respect to bivariate relations, there was evidence of significant positive relations between psychological well-being dimensions and life satisfaction and between physical conditions and life satisfaction as well. Also, as age increased there was a slow decrease in life satisfaction. Educational level was positively related to life satisfaction. A structural model gave valuable information about the pattern of multivariate relationships among the variables. A first result of the model was the large effect of physical and psychological well-being on life satisfaction, albeit it was psychological well-being the major predictor of life satisfaction. A second result was that the effects of socio-demographic variables on life satisfaction were low and they operated through the effects that maintain either on psychological well-being (or its individual indicators) or on physical conditions. The role gender or age played was indirect rather than direct.