Fernández-Ballesteros García Rocío, Zamarrón Casinello Ma Dolores, López Bravo Ma Dolores, Molina Martínez Ma Ángeles, Díez Nicolás Juan, Montero López Pilar, Schettini del Moral Rocío
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Psicología, Madrid, Spain.
Psicothema. 2010 Nov;22(4):641-7.
In the Anglo-Saxon scientific literature, successful aging has been consolidated during the last four decades. Nevertheless, several terms have been used as synonymous: healthy, active, productive, optimal, positive aging. Although, all these terms have been described through a broad set of bio-psycho-social factors, usually, research in this field reduces successful aging to daily life functioning and physical health. Also, in spite of the fact that authors consider that determinants might be multi-domain, empirical research usually reduces them to life styles. Logically, the prevalence of this kind of ageing found empirically is not very consistent and research of its determinants or predictors refers to biomedical conditions. In this study, data from 458 participants (170 males and 288 females; mean age: 66.47, range: 55-75) from ELEA ("Longitudinal Study of Active Aging") were examined. The results show (depending on the simple or multidimensional definitions used) a very varied range of proportions of successfully aging older persons as well as a large number of multi-domain predictors of successful ageing, among which are intelligence, personality and motivational psychological characteristics.
在盎格鲁-撒克逊科学文献中，成功老龄化在过去四十年里已得到巩固。然而，有几个术语被用作同义词：健康、活跃、有生产力、最佳、积极老龄化。尽管所有这些术语都通过广泛的生物-心理-社会因素进行了描述，但通常该领域的研究将成功老龄化简化为日常生活功能和身体健康。此外，尽管作者认为决定因素可能是多领域的，但实证研究通常将其简化为生活方式。从逻辑上讲，通过实证发现的这种老龄化的患病率不太一致，对其决定因素或预测因素的研究涉及生物医学状况。在本研究中，对来自ELEA（“活跃老龄化纵向研究”）的458名参与者（170名男性和288名女性；平均年龄：66.47，范围：55 - 75岁）的数据进行了检查。结果显示（取决于所使用的简单或多维定义），成功老龄化老年人的比例范围非常多样，以及大量成功老龄化的多领域预测因素，其中包括智力、个性和动机心理特征。
