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AUTHOR
Mauricio Blanco-molina
Indicadores de la satisfacción con la vida en personas adultas mayores en Costa Rica y España
Propósito: En el presente trabajo se indaga acerca de los principales indicadores de la satisfacción con la vida en personas mayores participantes de programas universitarios en España y Costa Rica. Método: Se emplea un diseño panel y se analiza el primer tiempo de recolección de datos. La muestra fue constituida por personas mayores de 55 o más años que estaban cursando estudios en diferentes centros de formación adscritos a la Universidad de Valencia en España (N=652) y a la Universidad Nacional en Costa Rica (N=272). Los datos fueron recogidos mediante un cuestionario con variables sociodemográficas, indicadores de participación social, Cuestionario de Apoyo Social Funcional Duke-UNC-11,…
INFORMACIÓN Y EXPOSICIÓN INDIRECTA PARA REDUCIR ESTEREOTIPOS HACIA EL ENVEJECIMIENTO
Abstract.Purpose: The Image that society has about older people has been built on a base of stereotypes, far away from reality. This social image will have a determinant influence on attitudes and behaviors from all those people related with them, including health care professionals. It should be mandatory to eradicate negative stereotypes against aging during university formation, and in this practice get sensitive professionals who will attend people in their final state of life. Method: the treatment “Information plus indirect experience” was set throw the viewing of the short film “Como un Rolling” (Castilla, 2013). This film exposes the concept of active aging, and had the purpose to b…
Subjective well-being key elements of Successful Aging: A study with Lifelong Learners older adults from Costa Rica and Spain.
Abstract Subjective well-being is a major psychological construct in the research tradition. Along with literature, authors have distinguished between hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. The aim of this study is to determine the role of some psychosocial variables plays in the perceived well-being is conceived from a hedonic or a eudaimonic perspective. The sample consisted of 1016 people of 55 years and older in a Spanish sample and 277 people of 55 years old or older from a Costa Rican sample. Both samples were part of the Longitudinal Older Learners (LOL) study. A structural model with latent variables was estimated with Mplus. The results point out that, the traditional variables include…
Testing a Proactive Model of Successful Aging Among Older Adults in Costa Rica and Spain.
The purpose of this study is to examine successful aging among Spanish-speaking older adults in Costa Rica and in Spain using the proactive framework proposed by Kahana et al. (2014). More specifically, we hypothesized that older adults’ life satisfaction would be positively associated with the frequency and perceived level of social support, spirituality/having purpose in life, and the use of proactive physical, cognitive, and social self-care behaviors. Our results confirmed these hypotheses, not only for the overall group of participants, but also separately for older adults in Costa Rica and in Spain. The present study contributes to the literature of successful aging among older adults…