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Life satisfaction in 6 European Countries : The Relationship to health, Self-Esteem, and Social and Financial Resources among People (Aged 65-89) with Reduced Functional Capacity
Christel Borg,Cecilia Fagerström,Cristian Balducci,Vanessa Burholt,Dieter Ferring,Germain Weber,Clare Wenger,Göran Holst,Ingalill Rahm Hallberg +8 more
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In all national samples, overall health, self-esteem, and feeling worried, rather than ADL capacity, were significantly associated with life satisfaction, suggesting that personal rather than environmental factors are important for life satisfaction among people with reducedADL capacity living in Europe.About:
This article is published in Geriatric Nursing.The article was published on 2008-01-01. It has received 88 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Life satisfaction & Activities of daily living.read more
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Validation of the brief multidimensional life satisfaction scale in patients with chronic diseases
TL;DR: The evaluation of the BMLSS revealed that the instrument has good psychometric properties and can be regarded as a brief, reliable and valid measure of LS in patients with chronic diseases.
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Stress and perceived social isolation (loneliness).
TL;DR: Data indicates that both loneliness and solitude may be caused by or correlate with biological factors resulting from psychological (life quality) and medical (health) factors including circulating stress hormones, immune system components and the glutamate system.
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Spiritual needs of elderly living in residential/nursing homes.
TL;DR: Regression analyses revealed that the specific needs were predicted best by religious trust and mood states, particularly tiredness, however, life satisfaction and quality of life were not among the significant predictors.
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Loneliness and Mental Health in a Representative Sample of Community-Dwelling Spanish Older Adults
Andrés Losada,María Márquez-González,Luis García-Ortiz,Manuel A. Gómez-Marcos,Virginia Fernández-Fernández,Emiliano Rodriguez-Sanchez +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the prevalence and predictors of feelings of loneliness were studied in a representative sample of 272 community-dwelling Spanish older adults, and they found that loneliness contributed significantly to the explanation of mental health, even when other significant variables were statistically controlled.
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The role of coping resources on change in well-being during persistent health decline.
TL;DR: It is suggested that coping resources are of importance in explaining associations between persistent health decline and decreasing well-being, and it may be of importance to develop interventions for older persons aimed at maintaining or improving psychological coping resources when health declines.
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