Elderly Women Satisfaction and Quality of Life
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29038/2220-7481-2021-03-62-68Keywords:
elderly age, quality of life, physical activityAbstract
Life satisfaction is quite important in a comfortable aging. Among the surveyed elderly women mostly have low and medium levels of life satisfaction, only a small proportion of them have a high life satisfaction level. The main factors of life satisfaction in aging are: lack of economic and social stability; contradiction between modern and former social values; insufficient socio-political support for the elderly; inability properly adapts to the new social status; insufficient healthy lifestyle and motor activity; inability properly organizes and spends the leisure time. The Purpose of the Research is to determine the degree of satisfaction and quality of life of elderly women. To achieve the research goal, interdependent Research Methods have been used. Among them are method of analysis and systematization of theoretical data, psychodiagnostic methods and methods of mathematical statistics. Conclusions. A comprehensive study was conducted to determine the life satisfaction index (LSI) among 91 women aged 60–75 years. The majority of respondents (69,2 %) have a low level of life satisfaction, the average level of life satisfaction has determined 23,08 % of respondents and only 7,7 % of respondents have a high level of life expectancy. According to the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) developed by E. Diner, 43,9 % of respondents have a low level of life satisfaction, 25,3 % – a rather low level of life satisfaction, 15,4 % of respondents – above the average level, 7,7 % of women – the average level, only 2,2 % – a high level of life satisfaction. Among the components of the elderly women`s quality of life, the physical component of health has been found at 44.9% and indicates a low level, while the psychological component of health – 35,4 % indicates at a rather low level.
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