Steverink Nardi, Lindenberg Siegwart
Department of Health Sciences, Section Health Psychology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands.
Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), University of Groningen, Grote Rozenstraat 31, 9712 TG Groningen, The Netherlands.
Eur J Ageing. 2008 Aug 20;5(3):181-190. doi: 10.1007/s10433-008-0089-1. eCollection 2008 Sep.
Proactive self-management is likely to be part of resource maintenance and well-being in later life, but empirical evidence is scarce. Therefore, we investigated (a) whether self-management ability (SMA) is associated with lower resource deficits, and (b) whether it is related directly and indirectly to life satisfaction (LS), positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA). Regression and mediational analyses ( = 439, aged 65 years and older), showed that SMA related to resource deficits, and had direct associations with the three well-being indicators. Indirect associations-via lower resource deficits-were found for LS, whereas the association between SMA and PA was mostly a direct one, being mediated only to a small extent by physical resource deficits. The association between SMA and NA was mediated only by social resource deficits. It is concluded that better SMA seems to matter to resource maintenance and well-being, but future research needs to unravel the differential findings for physical and social resource deficits and for the separate well-being indicators.
积极的自我管理可能是晚年资源维持和幸福的一部分，但实证证据很少。因此，我们调查了：（a）自我管理能力（SMA）是否与较低的资源赤字相关；（b）它是否直接或间接地与生活满意度（LS）、积极情绪（PA）和消极情绪（NA）相关。回归和中介分析（n = 439，年龄在65岁及以上）表明，SMA与资源赤字相关，并且与这三个幸福指标有直接关联。对于LS，发现了通过较低资源赤字的间接关联，而SMA与PA之间的关联主要是直接的，仅在很小程度上由物质资源赤字介导。SMA与NA之间的关联仅由社会资源赤字介导。研究得出结论，更好的SMA似乎对资源维持和幸福很重要，但未来的研究需要阐明物质和社会资源赤字以及单独的幸福指标的不同研究结果。
