Predicting Well-Being Among the Elderly : The Role of Coping Strategies

Copyright © 2020 Galiana, Tomás, Fernández and Oliver..

OBJECTIVES: This study aims to offer a wider view on the role of coping strategies on elderly's well-being by means of literature-based competitive structural equation models (SEMs).

METHODS: 857 older adults were surveyed. Measures included Ryff's scales of Psychological Well-being and the Coping Strategies Questionnaire. Competitive SEMs were tested.

RESULTS: In the retained model, the religious coping dimension was removed, and the remaining dimensions were defined by problem- and emotion-focused coping, which explained both psychological and subjective well-being factors (χ2(46) = 165.910, p < 0.001; CFI = 0.906; GFI = 0.957; RMSEA = 0.058 [0.048,0.067]).

DISCUSSION: Results pointed to the relevance of coping strategies for achieving adequate well-being, with emotion-focused coping strategies being the ones with negative and highest predictive power over the two dimensions of well-being. Interventions aiming at improving old people's well-being should, put their focus on decreasing the use of emotion-coping strategies.

Errataetall:

ErratumIn: Front Psychol. 2020 Sep 04;11:2125. - PMID 33013541

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in psychology - 11(2020) vom: 01., Seite 616

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Galiana, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Tomás, José M [VerfasserIn]
Fernández, Irene [VerfasserIn]
Oliver, Amparo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Elderly
Emotion-focused coping strategies
Journal Article
Problem-focused coping strategies
Psychological well-being
Subjective well-being

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 03.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

ErratumIn: Front Psychol. 2020 Sep 04;11:2125. - PMID 33013541

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00616

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM309024196