Social relationships and health as predictors of life satisfaction in advanced old age: results from a Swedish longitudinal study
Författare
Summary, in English
This longitudinal study examines the relationship between family and friend social support, health, and life satisfaction for a single cohort of eighty-year-old persons living in Lund, Sweden. Results indicate that participants who remained in the study are healthier and score higher on life satisfaction when compared with those who either drop-out or die prior to age eighty-three. Even though well-integrated with family and friends, the number of friends decreases significantly from eighty to eighty-three years; those who reported no close friends nearly doubled from eighty to eighty-three years. However, for those with close friends, contact with friends increases with age. In contrast to previous research, a correlational analysis indicates that neither child nor friend support is related to life satisfaction at either eighty or eighty-three years. However, health measures and satisfaction with sibling contact are related to total life satisfaction at age eighty-three only. These findings indicate the multidimensionality of both social support and life satisfaction for the old-old.
Avdelning/ar
- Hållbar vardag och hälsa i ett livsperspektiv
- Institutionen för psykologi
- Geriatric Medicine
Publiceringsår
1999
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
301-324
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Journal of Aging and Human Development
Volym
48
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.
Ämne
- Gerontology, specializing in Medical and Health Sciences
- Occupational Therapy
Nyckelord
- Follow up study
- Satisfaction
- Attitude
- Daily living
- Social support
- Familial relation
- Interpersonal relation
- Social interaction
- Social development
- Elderly
- Human
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Sustainable occupations and health in a life course perspective
- Geriatric Medicine
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0091-4150