Developing a Model of Psychological Well-Being in Elderly Based On Life Expectancy through Mediation of Death Anxiety

Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy

Nasrin Bakhshi ¹ , Sara Pashang ² , Nematullah Jaafari ³ , Shohreh Ghorban Shiroudi ⁴

1 - PhD Student in Health Psychology, Islamic Azad University, UAE Branch
2 - Assistant Professor of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch
3 - Professor of Psychiatry, University of Poitiers, France
4 - Associate Professor of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch

Received: 2020-11-09 Accepted : 2020-12-12 Published : 2021-01-20

Keywords: elderly, death anxiety, self-perception, psychological well-being,

Abstract :

Purpose: The aim of this study was to predict the psychological well-being of the elderly based on self-perception and death anxiety. Methodology: The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the present study included all the elderly hospitalized and the elderly at home in Tehran in 1398. The sample size was 400 elderly people who were selected by cluster sampling method. Thus, from among the nursing homes and nursing homes, first 5 nursing homes and 5 neighborhood homes from districts 2, 3 and 5 of Tehran were randomly selected and then 40 elderly people were randomly selected from each center and questionnaire and questionnaires were administered to them. The research instruments included Reef Psychological Welfare Questionnaire (1989), Templer Death Anxiety Scale (1970) and Triple Self-Scale (1991). Research data were analyzed by regression method. SPSS and AMOS software version 20 were used to analyze the research data. Findings: The results of the conceptual model test showed that self-physical and self-spiritual factors have a significant positive relationship with psychological well-being and the positiveness of these coefficients in fact indicates that with the increase of these factors, the rate of psychological well-being increases. Death anxiety also has a significant negative relationship with psychological well-being. Was confirmed (p <0.05, β = -0.39) Conclusion: The findings showed the significance of the regression model. Accordingly, in nursing homes, in order to increase the level of psychological well-being and promote the health of the elderly, it is necessary to pay attention to their perceptual backgrounds and death anxiety.