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| The contribution of socio-demographic and psychosocial factors to life satisfaction | | Author(s) | Rocîo Fernández-Ballesteros, Marîa Dolores Zamarrón, Miguel Angel Ruîz |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 21, part 1, January 2001 |
| Pages | pp 25-44 |
| Keywords | Life satisfaction ; Mental health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Self care capacity ; Social surveys ; Spain. |
| Annotation | Life satisfaction continues to be an important construct in the psychosocial study of ageing, one of the commonly-accepted subjective conditions of quality of life, and seems to be one of the facets of successful ageing. Research reports that life satisfaction is strongly related to socio-demographic and psychosocial variables. These, however, are mutually dependent interactive variables. More attention should be paid to the study of the relative contribution of these two types of factors to life satisfaction. The authors report on research to discover which socio-demographic conditions and psychosocial factors are the most important, and to decide to what extent they contribute to life satisfaction. A representative sample of 507 Spaniards (210 men, 297 women) aged 65 and over were interviewed at home. Two socio-demographic characteristics (income and education) are found to influence life satisfaction both directly and indirectly, through psychosocial factors such as activity (physical, leisure and social), perceived health and physical illness. Among psychosocial factors, activity and health both contribute to explaining life satisfaction. Results are discussed from the point of view of the activity theory of ageing. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010405203 A |
| Classmark | F:5HH: D: F: CC: CA: 3F: 76S |
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