Department of Nursing, Chungnam National University College of Nursing, Daejeon, Korea.
Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2019 Apr;19(4):352-356. doi: 10.1111/ggi.13615. Epub 2019 Feb 11.
The level of happiness of older adults is associated with their psychosocial and physical health. Currently, little is known about the predictors of happiness among older women living alone in the community. The present study aimed to identify these predictors.
This was a cross-sectional descriptive study of older women who were living alone and were registered with a social welfare center in an old urban area in South Korea. We designated various demographic factors along with health-related information, perceived self-esteem and depressive symptoms as independent variables predicting happiness. Descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis were carried out.
In total, 154 participants were recruited. They showed a moderate level of happiness. Furthermore, happiness was negatively correlated with the number of comorbidities, presence of pain and depressive symptoms, but positively correlated with self-esteem. The final model in hierarchical regression showed that depressive symptoms were powerful predictors of happiness after controlling the covariates and accounted for approximately 76.7% of the total variances.
The happiness of older women living alone was associated with their self-esteem and depressive symptoms. Interventions aimed at reducing depressive symptoms and improving self-esteem should be developed and applied to this population. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2019; 19: 352-356.
老年人的幸福感与其社会心理和身体健康有关。目前，对于独自居住在社区中的老年女性幸福感的预测因素知之甚少。本研究旨在确定这些预测因素。
这是一项横断面描述性研究，纳入了独自居住并在韩国一个老城区的社会福利中心登记的老年女性。我们将各种人口统计学因素以及与健康相关的信息、感知到的自尊和抑郁症状指定为预测幸福感的自变量。进行了描述性统计和多元分析。
共纳入 154 名参与者。她们的幸福感处于中等水平。此外，幸福感与共病数量、疼痛和抑郁症状呈负相关，与自尊呈正相关。在控制协变量后，分层回归的最终模型显示，抑郁症状是幸福感的有力预测因素，可解释总方差的约 76.7%。
独自居住的老年女性的幸福感与其自尊和抑郁症状有关。应针对该人群开发和应用旨在降低抑郁症状和提高自尊的干预措施。
