Developing a model of psychological well-being in elderly based on life expectancy through mediation of death anxiety

Abstract

Nasrin Bakhshi, Sara Pashang *, Nematullah Jaafari, Shohreh Ghorban Shiroudi Purpose: Psychological well-being in the sense that positive health is something beyond the absence of disease that is present throughout life, especially in old age. The aim of this study is to predict the psychological well-being of the elderly based on self-perception and death anxiety. Materials and Methodology: The research method is correlational and structural modeling equation. The statistical population of this study included all the elderly hospitalized in the sanatorium and the elderly at home in Tehran in 2019. The sample included 400 elderly people selected by cluster sampling. In this way, among the elderly care centers and neighborhood house, 10 centers were selected randomly from districts 2, 3 and 5 in Tehran and then 40 elderly people were randomly selected from each center 400 elderly in total. Research instruments included Ryff Psychological Well-being Questionnaire (1989), Templer Death Anxiety Scale (1970) and Snyder Hope Scale (1991). The research data were analyzed by regression method. Findings: The results of the conceptual model test showed that physical and spiritual factors have a significant positive relationship with psychological well-being, and the positiveness of these coefficients actually shows that with the increase of these factors, the level of psychological well-being increases. Death anxiety also has a significant negative relationship with psychological well-being. Was approved (p <0.05, β = -0.39). Conclusion: The findings of the study indicated that the conceptual model of the research was appropriate. Therefore, in elderly care centers, it is necessary to pay attention to the antecedents of hope and death anxiety in order to increase the level of psychological well-being and Improving the health of the elderly