Can Spiritual Well-Being Predict Successful Aging?
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Objectives: Successful aging is a positive, inner feeling and satisfaction with the past and present lives. Thus, the study was conducted to determine the predicting factors of the successful aging in a sample of Iranian elderly. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 291 elderly people in Qazvin in 2018 selected using two-stage cluster sampling method. Data collection was done using the demographic characteristics checklist, successful aging questionnaire and Paloutzian and Ellison Spiritual Health Questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive tests (percentage, frequency, central and dispersion indices) and hierarchical regression model. Results: The sample was 291 elderly with a mean age of 68.3 (6.7). The results indicated that spiritual health of 81.1% of the elderly was strong and most of the elderly had a good level of successful aging and spiritual health was a predictor of successful aging. Regarding the aspects of spiritual health, the existential health has a positive and significant effect on successful aging (B= 0.65, p <0.001). Furthermore, the results showed that employed elderly (B:4.29) compared to housewives (B:-4.25), those with high financial status compared to those with a moderate (B:-3.44) and low (B:-7.332) level, and the elderly with no history of physical (B:-4.55) and mental (B:-2.54) conditions obtained significantly higher scores in successful aging. Conclusion: the existential aspect of spiritual health is one of the predictors of successful aging. Given the importance and sensitivity of the issues related to the elderly, by interventions focused on spiritual education one can increase the quality of this period and make it richer.
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volume 15 issue 2
pages 246- 254
publication date 2020-07
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