Aging-related Resiliency Theory Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Feliciano ◽  
Alfredo Feliciano ◽  
Daisy Palompon ◽  
Amira Boshra
Keyword(s):  
Successful Aging ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Axiomatic Approach ◽  
Resiliency Theory ◽  
Total Capacity ◽  
Effects Of Aging

As a dynamic developmental process, the older population further displays the capacity to resist change over time, improve resilience, and keep a basis for the continuity working and progress over positive management of detrimental consequences of life risks and difficulties. This study aims at developing a theory that endeavors to explore the process of developing aging-related resiliency in people’s later in life that can lead to a successful aging experience. In the development of a theory, this study utilized a deductive reasoning approach specifically, using the axiomatic approach. Aging-related Resiliency Theory was efficaciously developed by three propositions generated from four axioms that were derived after reviewing several sets of literature and studies. This developed theory implies that various deleterious events in life activate older persons to respond, adapt, and recover effectively. Acceptance emerges as they acknowledge the natural effects of aging while taking adaptive strategies and supportive resources to be resilient to one’s environment. In this sense, it impacts their optimistic outlook towards successful aging. Based on the extraction of axioms, such propositions denoted those older adults call to respond with their total capacity to accept, adapt, recover, and continuously resist deleterious life experiences while using enriched coping strategies and resources towards an optimistic outlook in achieving successful aging. Therefore, emphasizing to improve their capacity to respond to natural decline to essential processes could benefit them at promoting a healthier life span.

scholarly journals Meaning of Life and Well-Being: Preliminary Results of the Successful Aging Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 112-112
Author(s):  
Zvi Gellis ◽  
Kim McClive-Reed ◽  
Bonnie Kenaley ◽  
Eunhae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Successful Aging ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Presence Of Meaning ◽  
Aging Study ◽  
Proxy Measure ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract Meaning in life for older persons has become a focal research point, with findings that a greater sense of meaning is associated with better outcomes on a range of health and well-being factors. Our study examined relationships between scores on several personality scales, including the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (Steger et al., 2009) and the WHO-5 Well-Being Index, a proxy measure of mood/depression. Community-dwelling members (N=535) of Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes aged 50 and up (mean age 71.4, SD = 6.93) at 3 U.S. sites completed surveys. Higher wellness levels were significantly correlated with increased resilience, optimism, life satisfaction, and presence of meaning in life, while lower levels were associated with greater searching for meaning in life. A multivariate linear regression model (F = 55.597, df = 4, p = .000, R = .566, R2 = .320) showed that wellness scores increased with higher scores in optimism (ß = .348, p =.000), resilience (ß = .183, p = .000), and presence of meaning in life (ß = .106, p = .019). However, searching for meaning in life significantly predicted decreases in wellness scores (ß = -.084, p=.019). These results support those of previous studies, suggesting that for older persons, an ongoing search for meaning in life is linked to negative outcomes than a perception of existing meaning in life. A variety of available interventions aimed at increasing meaning and purpose in life (Guerrero-Torelles et al., 2017) may contribute to better health and well-being in older adults.

The Barriers of Financial Support Towards Successful Aging Among the Participants of Activity Center for the Older Persons in Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-381
Author(s):  
Faizah Hanim Binti Zainuddin ◽  
Mashitah Binti Hamidi ◽  
Haris Bin Abd Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Successful Aging ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Activity Center

scholarly journals Becoming an Older Volunteer: A Grounded Theory Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Witucki Brown ◽  
Shu-li Chen ◽  
Linda Mefford ◽  
Allie Brown ◽  
Bonnie Callen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Role Modeling ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Habitat For Humanity ◽  
Learned Behavior ◽  
Grounded Theory Study ◽  
Older Volunteers ◽  
Core Category

This Grounded Theory study describes the process by which older persons “become” volunteers. Forty interviews of older persons who volunteered for Habitat for Humanity were subjected to secondary content analysis to uncover the process of “becoming” a volunteer. “Helping out” (core category) for older volunteers occurs within the context of “continuity”, “commitment” and “connection” which provide motivation for volunteering. When a need arises, older volunteers “help out” physically and financially as health and resources permit. Benefits described as “blessings” of volunteering become motivators for future volunteering. Findings suggest that older volunteering is a developmental process and learned behavior which should be fostered in older persons by personally inviting them to volunteer. Intergenerational volunteering projects will allow older persons to pass on knowledge and skills and provide positive role modeling for younger volunteers.

scholarly journals The development of Need–Threat Internal Resiliency Theory in COVID-19 crisis utilizing deductive axiomatic approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonaid Mustapha Sadang ◽  
Daisy R Palompon
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Axiomatic Approach ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Return To Equilibrium ◽  
Health Threat

Resiliency for older people represents the capacity to return to equilibrium when difficulties arise and was found as integral predictor of their health status. This study aims to develop a theory that attempts to explain the older adults’ resiliency perspectives during crisis and how it has affected their well-being and quality of life as population group. Deductive theory generation using axiomatic approach was adopted resulting to five axioms that served as basis for the generation of three propositions such as: (1) An older person’s health needs have tendencies to develop into a health threat, (2) when the threat is perceived, older persons developed a sense of internal control and adaptation to the changes it creates known as internal resiliency, and (3) internal resiliency can influence the quality of life in old age. The evolved theory suggests that in times of crisis (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic), health needs develop into a health threat that compels older persons to develop internal resiliency in order to preserve their integrity, wellbeing and quality of life. This study widens the nursing perspectives in addressing older persons’ resiliency by the unique condition at which older clients are placed affecting both the pathological nature of the illness as well as the preventive interventions which the society is forced to implement.

Dialogical Integration of Life Experiences and Successful Aging

2020 ◽  
pp. 009141502091768
Author(s):  
Miroslav Filip ◽  
Iva Poláčková Šolcová ◽  
Marie Kovářová ◽  
Kateřina Lukavská ◽  
Jan Hofer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Successful Aging ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Hypothetical Model ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Complete Integration ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
Partial Integration

This article examines the hypothesis that the dialogical integration of life experiences is related to successful aging. Life story interviews with 93 older Czech adults were sorted into categories characterized by specific patterns of life experience integration: (i) without dialogical processes, (ii) with differentiated I-positions, (iii) with dialogical relationships, (iv) partially integrated, and (v) completely integrated. The results indicated that the categories were ordered, yielding low-level correlations with scales of successful aging in predicted directions. A comparison of the categories revealed that they were related to successful aging in a cumulative way, starting with the most essential indicator (lower scores of rumination) in the participants who had developed at least dialogical relationships, continuing to higher well-being linked with partial integration, and ending with an advanced indicator (optimism toward future) linked with complete integration. These relationships were summarized in a hypothetical model that is open to further examination.

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