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Predicting Well-Being Among the Elderly: The Role of Coping Strategies
José M. TomásIrene FernándezAmparo OliverLaura Galianasubject
Coping (psychology)Best fittinglcsh:BF1-990Psychological interventionelderly050105 experimental psychologyStructural equation modeling03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineproblem-focused coping strategiesPsychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSubjective well-beingGeneral Psychology05 social sciencesBrief Research Reportlcsh:Psychologysubjective well-beingPsychological well-beingemotion-focused coping strategiesWell-beingPredictive powerpsychological well-beingPsychology030217 neurology & neurosurgeryClinical psychologydescription
Objectives: This study aims to give a wider view on the role of coping strategies on elderly’s well-being, by means of literature-based competitive structural equation models (SEM). Methods: 857 older adults were surveyed with Ryff’s scales of Psychological Well-being and the Coping Strategies Questionnaire. Competitive full SEMs were tested. Results: The best fitting model was the one in which the religious coping dimension was removed, leaving the remaining dimensions defined by problem- and emotion-focused coping, which explained both psychological and subjective well-being factors (χ2(46)=165.910, p<.001; CFI=.906; GFI=.957; RMSEA=.058 [.048, .067]). Discussion: Results pointed the relevance of coping strategies for elderly achieving an adequate well-being, in its two dimensions, with emotion-focused coping strategies being the ones with the highest and negative predictive power over the two dimensions of well-being. Interventions aiming at improve old people’s well-being should, then, put their focus on the decrease of use of emotional coping strategies.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-01 | Frontiers in Psychology |