Psychosocial factors for influencing healthy aging in adults in Korea

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

KwuyBun Kim¹  JongHee Han¹  Hee Oh¹  JaSung Gu¹  YunJung Lee³  KyungHun Han² 

[1] College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University Seoul, Korea, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu 130-701, Seoul, South Korea;Behavioral Science Research Center, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, 136-701, 1, 5-ka, Anam-dong, Sungbuk-ku, Seoul, South Korea;College of Nursing, Seoul Women’s College of Nursing, 38 Ganhodae-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea

关键词: Loneliness;    Leisure activities;    Ego-integrity;    Achievement;    Self-esteem;    Perceived heath status;    Depression;    Healthy aging;   

Others  :  1144122
DOI  :  10.1186/s12955-015-0225-5

 received in 2014-10-09, accepted in 2015-02-18,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Healthy aging includes physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being in later years. The purpose of this study is to identify the psychosocial factors influencing healthy aging and examining their socio-demographic characteristics. Perceived health status, depression, self-esteem, self-achievement, ego-integrity, participation in leisure activities, and loneliness were identified as influential factors in healthy aging.

Methods

171 Korean adults aged between 45 and 77 years-old participated in the study. Self-reporting questionnaires were used, followed by descriptive statistics and multiple regressions as inferential statistical analyses.

Results

There were significant differences between participants’ general characteristics: age, education, religion, housing, hobby, and economic status. The factors related to healthy aging had positive correlation with perceived health status, self-esteem, self-achievements, and leisure activities, and negative correlation with depression and loneliness. The factors influencing healthy aging were depression, leisure activities, perceived health status, ego integrity, and self-achievements. These factors were able to explain 51.9%.

Conclusions

According to the results, depression is the factor with the greatest influence on healthy aging. Perceived health status, ego integrity, self-achievement, self-esteem, participation of leisure activities were also influential on healthy aging as beneficial factors.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Han et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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