Klimova Blanka, Pikhart Marcel, Cierniak-Emerych Anna, Dziuba Szymon, Firlej Krzysztof
Department of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czechia.
Faculty of Business and Management, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Wrocław, Poland.
Front Psychol. 2021 Feb 17;12:606083. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.606083. eCollection 2021.
Positive psychology has recently seen unprecedented rise and has reached vast achievements in the area of quality of life (QoL) improvement. The purpose of this study is to show that there are different aspects of well-being that make healthy older people motivated to learn a foreign language at a later age. The research was conducted in the Czech Republic and Poland in two groups of learners aged 55 years and more. The experimental group consisted of 105 Czech respondents who were targeted with an online questionnaire with the aim to determine the level of FLL outcomes connected to QoL in healthy older adults in their L2 acquisition. The second experimental group ( = 100) was established of Polish seniors who attended similar language courses. The findings of the research clearly show that FLL has an irreplaceable role as one of several non-pharmacological strategies utilized to improve the aging process and reduce drawbacks of aging. The results indicate that seniors' overall satisfaction and subjective feelings of well-being are enormously high when attending foreign language classes at older age. FLL, therefore, creates an environment that can enhance QoL of older adults that can be supplemented by other means such as well-balanced diet, other social activities, sport and physical activity, music, or computer games. All these intervention methods can significantly improve QoL of older adults and the parties engaged and/or responsible for taking care of older generation should take it into serious consideration.
积极心理学近年来取得了前所未有的发展，并在改善生活质量（QoL）领域取得了巨大成就。本研究的目的是表明，幸福的不同方面促使健康的老年人在晚年有动力学习外语。该研究在捷克共和国和波兰对两组年龄在55岁及以上的学习者进行。实验组由105名捷克受访者组成，他们接受了一份在线问卷，旨在确定健康老年人在第二语言习得中与生活质量相关的外语学习成果水平。第二个实验组（n = 100）由参加类似语言课程的波兰老年人组成。研究结果清楚地表明，外语学习作为用于改善衰老过程和减少衰老弊端的几种非药物策略之一，具有不可替代的作用。结果表明，老年人在晚年参加外语课程时，总体满意度和主观幸福感非常高。因此，外语学习创造了一个可以提高老年人生活质量的环境，这可以通过其他方式来补充，如均衡饮食、其他社交活动、运动和体育活动、音乐或电脑游戏。所有这些干预方法都可以显著提高老年人的生活质量，参与和/或负责照顾老年人的各方应予以认真考虑。
