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The aim of this study was to explore the factor structure of the MOS-SSS in a sample of community-dwelling Spanish older adults. The sample comprised 406 community-dwelling older adults aged between 65 to 99 years old (Mage = 74.88, SD = 6.75). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed, and four possible models were compared: the one-factor,...
There is evidence that perceived health status is relevant for older adults' wellbeing, and at the same time perceived health status can be influenced by self-perceptions of ageing. There is a lack of studies on the relationship between these variables. The aim of this study was to explore attitudes towards ageing and self-perceptions of ageing amo...
Today, the skills-based approach is increasingly in demand by companies due, in large part, to the fact that it favors the management of human resources by focusing on individual capabilities; which, finally, improves the job profile of a company. As a result, choosing the right candidates has become increasingly selective. Universities, therefore,...
Adolescence is the stage of development where the reward and emotional regulation systems are yet to be adjusted and where most excessive behaviors start, like smartphone abuse. In addition, in this evolutionary period adolescents are more susceptible to behavioral changes through specific interventions or educational programs. Thus, it is fundamen...
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It has been widely demonstrated that recent stressful events could impact wellbeing, nevertheless it is not clear whether stressful situations experienced in the pastand the internal resources used to deal with them can also influence older adult’s well- being. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of stressful past eve...
Objectives
Perceived health status is an important health indicator related to successfulaging and older people’s quality of life. Perceived health status depends on biological, social and psychological factors, for example, at a social level, depends on comparisons with the peer group that individuals carry out and on attitudes towards aging, agei...
Background:
Active aging is aimed at promoting quality of life in older adults. Nevertheless, the relationship between physical role and the practice of physical activity (PA) can be influenced by bodily pain feeling and by a low level of health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Passive and active strategies are susceptible to being modified and co...
La participación en actividades de ocio tiene importantes beneficios para la salud y el bienestar de los mayores. Sin embargo, existen diversos factores que pueden condicionar la participación como el entorno de residencia, el género o el estado de salud físico y mental. El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido, por un lado, analizar la influencia del e...
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Cognitive reserve, or the extent to which brain can cope with damage, is associated with extended healthy aging and with slow age-related cognitive decline, as well as a lower number of dementia-associated clinical cognitive signs. Thus, understanding how cognitive reserve might affect different cognitive abilities is important. This stu...
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Several neurodegenerative conditions negatively impact linguistics skills. Despite this, many studies carried out with these kinds of patients either only include participants with initial stages of cognitive impairment either do not contemplate linguistic skills, or they do assess language in clinical or experimental settings. Due to it...
It has been found that suffering loneliness increases the probability of anxiety and depression. The importance of studying loneliness is due to the negative consequences that this phenomenon can generate on the mental and physical health of elderly people. The objective of this study was to analyze the influence of loneliness in old age and their...
Se ha encontrado evidencia de que la soledad incrementa la probabilidad de presentar problemas de ansiedad y depresión en personas mayores, razón por la cual se hace importante el estudio de las consecuencias negativas de este fenómeno sobre la salud mental y física de estas personas. El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la influencia de la sol...
A great number of intervention strategies that provide opportunities to maintain physical, psychological, and social wellbeing have been carried out in order to promote active aging. Most of these strategies are aimed at people without physicalor cognitive dependence, while institutionalized older people have not been considered as a target group....
Con la implantación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES), una de las cuestiones más relevantes que se incluyen en la formación universitaria es el manejo de las nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) por parte del alumnado. En esta investigación se ha evaluado el uso de las TIC en 79 estudiantes (Medad=20,43, DT=3,...
Adolescence is a critical phase of development due to the vulnerability to the consumption of toxic substances. Impulsivity and sensation seeking are personality traits that traditionally appear associated with the early consumption of cannabis in adolescents. This study focuses on the analysis of the differences in impulsivity (functional and dysf...
El objetivo del trabajo fue analizar el efecto sobre el bienestar psicológico y la satisfacción vital de personas mayores institucionalizadas participantes en un proyecto de intervención innovador generado desde la perspectiva de la educación social. Se seleccionó a 50 personas mayores institucionalizadas con capacidades psicomotoras adecuadas para...
Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze the combined effect of socio-demographic characteristics and activity level on coping strategies and to test which of these variables has a greater impact on coping.
Method: A sample of 243 men and women aged 55–99 years old was selected from different elderly activity centers in Granada, Spain, usi...
Como toda intervención socioeducativa, el presente trabajo tiene múltiples finalidades: por un lado, poner de manifiesto la importancia que adquiere el estancamiento profesional acaecido en la última década en los centros geriátricos, sobre el bienestar de un nuevo perfil de envejecimiento. Por otro lado, resaltar la limitación funcional que posee...
Background
Psychological and social resources such as extraversion, optimism, social support, or social networks contribute to adaptation and to successful aging. Building on assumptions derived from successful aging and from the developmental adaptation models, this study aims to analyze the joint impact of different psychosocial resources, such a...
Alcohol consumption in adolescents is a complex problem that is often related to impulsive behavior. The objective of this study was to analyze the role of parenting styles in the relationship between impulsivity and alcohol consumption in a sample of 613 Spanish adolescents aged between 13 and 18 years (M = 15.76, DT = 1.16) and enrolled in second...
El afrontamiento del estrés en personas con discapacidad intelectual (DI) no ha sido objeto de gran interés hasta el momento. Este estudio identifica los eventos estresantes y evalúa el efecto del género y la edad en el uso de estrategias de afrontamiento en 138 adultos con DI. Se aplicó el Inventario de estrategias de afrontamiento, un diseño tran...
A pesar del nuevo modelo de envejecimiento exitoso que está emergiendo, vemos que aún persisten imágenes negativas y estereotipos asociados a los mayores. Desde el “modelo de la personalización” se postula que el contacto intergrupal permite crear una representación más variada del exogrupo, por lo que el objetivo del presente estudio fue evaluar l...
La salud y la participación son dos pilares fundamentales del envejecimiento activo por lo que es importante entender las variables que los afectan. El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la relación entre extraversión, optimismo y salud y participación social en personas mayores. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 406 personas mayores (M=74.88...
El Envejecimiento Activo es objeto de estudio desde distintas perspectivas profesionales, fortaleciendo la acción dirija a las personas mayores para la promoción de su autonomía y la mejora de su calidad de vida. Esta atención prestada por muchos organismos sociales, queda olvidada en los complejos geriátricos debido a la ausencia de programas inno...
En esta investigación se ha analizado la influencia de las actitudes hacia la discapacidad en el rendimiento académico de los alumnos del Grado de Maestro en Educación Infantil de la Universidad de Jaén que cursan la asignatura de Trastornos del desarrollo. Investigaciones como las de Alcañiz, Chulià, Riera, Ruis y Santolino (2016) estudian la rela...
Promoting health and quality of life among rural older people has received little attention, especially in Spain where the number of interventions designed specifically for the rural elderly is sparse. The aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of an intervention program aiming at improving quality of life in a group of community-dwelli...
El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la confiabilidad y validez de la escala ESTE para medir la soledad en adultos mayores mexicanos. Participaron 489 adultos mayores de entre 60 y 97 años del sur del estado de Sonora (México), quienes completaron la mencionada escala, así como la Escala de Depresión Geriátrica de Yesavage y el WHOQOL-OLD para m...
It has been widely corroborated that recent stressful life events could impact wellbeing; nevertheless, it is not clear whether stressful situations experienced in the past and the individual resources used to deal with them influence older adults’ wellbeing. This study aims to analyse the influence of stressful past events and personal control bel...
The aim of this study was to analyze life-events that elderly Spanish and Porto Rican adults consider stressful and the coping strategies they use to face them. The Spanish sample comprised 243 people, 33.3% men and 66.7% women. The Porto Rican sample comprised 195 people, 32.3% men and 67.7% women. The CSI Coping Strategies Inventory was used and...
The purpose of the present study was to analyze the independent predicting value of
loneliness, age, presence-absence of health conditions, presence-absence of a partner and living
alone or with others, for predicting depression and quality of life in elderly participants. Method. A
total of 489 adults aged 60 to 97 from the northwestern state of S...
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The aim of this study was on one hand to examine the associations between health impairment and life satisfaction, as well as social support and life satisfaction, and on the other, to analyze the moderating effect of social support with regard to health impairment and life satisfaction in a sample of community-dwelling older adults fr...
Objectives: The aim of this study was twofold: on the one hand to analyze whether extroversion predicts social support in older people, and on the other hand to determine if different types of social support mediate the effect that extroversion has on older people's life satisfaction.
Method: The sample comprised 406 community-dwelling older adults...
La globalización ha supuesto un cambio en los estilos de interacción comunicativa,
cada vez más mediada digitalmente. Por ello, aquellos que encuentran dificultades en el
acceso o manejo de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (personas situadas
en la brecha digital) se encuentran en claro riesgo de exclusión social. El colect...
Objectives:
This study seeks to identify different life events that participants considered stressful and to study the joint effect of gender, age group, and main stressful life events on the use of different coping strategies.
Methods:
The sample comprised 243 men and women, 55 to 99 years old, who attended senior activity centers. Analyses wer...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Coping Strategies Inventory (CSI) in a sample of 243 older people age 55 to 99 years old. The first order factorial structure was similar to the structure of the original version of the CSI and to the Spanish adaptation with general population. Furthermore high levels of inter...
Introduction:
The relationship between extraversion and wellbeing has been discussed in the literature, however, the impact that this trait has on the wellbeing of older people has been studied to a lesser extent. The relationship between extraversion, participation in activities and psychological wellbeing in older people is analysed in this stud...
Una de las claves en la mejora de la atención sanitaria ha sido el cambio de paradigma hacia una visión humanizadora de la sanidad, en la que se tenga en cuenta la idiosincrasia del paciente, sus emociones, sus relaciones sociales y el trato con el personal sanitario.
Este nuevo paradigma ha revolucionado la visión respecto al final de la vida, con...
As the life expectancy has increased, the number of elderly people who are alone and feel loneliness has became larger as well. In this study the levels of social loneliness perceived are analysed by gender, age, social participation and pets. The data were collected during 2010 in a sample comprised of 755 people of 65 years old and above from Gra...
