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Variations in subjective wellbeing
— the mediating role of a psychological resource | | Author(s) | Gill Windle, Robert T Woods |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 24, part 4, July 2004 |
| Pages | pp 583-602 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/ |
| Keywords | Life satisfaction ; Health [elderly] ; Well being ; Mental health [elderly] ; Living in the community ; Wales. |
| Annotation | There is a strong theoretical basis for the proposal that the regulation of subjective wellbeing can occur through psychological resources that promote adaptation to adverse situations. On this basis, a theoretical model was developed, and a hypothesis tested with a random sample of 423 community-dwelling people in North Wales aged 70+, who were interviewed at home using a structured schedule. Quantitative data were obtained on age, gender, social support, marital status, physical functioning, bodily pain, loneliness, isolation and housing difficulties. Subjective wellbeing was assessed by the Life Satisfaction Index, and the psychological mediator was conceptualised as a measure of environmental mastery. Variations in wellbeing were found to be associated with housing difficulties, isolation, loneliness, physical functioning, pain, support networks and marital status. The full model established perfect mediation by environmental mastery occurred for the variables housing problems and physical functioning, and partial mediation occurred for loneliness - supporting the original hypothesis. The results add to the evidence from an increasing number of studies that demonstrates how psychological resources underlie the processes of adaptation to the changing situations that accompany increasing age and prevent negative outcomes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040716005 A |
| Classmark | F:5HH: CC: D:F:5HH: D: K4: 9 |
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