Sense of coherence associated with psychological and social well-being in elderly

Abstract

Introduction: The world’s population faces an unprecedented phenomenon the proportional increase of elderly is growing fast. This phenomenon poses opportunities and challenges as the demand for medical attention and long-term care that will increase due to the presence of chronic degenerative diseases and geriatric syndromes; It is also common for the elderly to experience a series of events that can be critical and stressful and as a result affect their psychological and social well-being. Objective: To know the relationship and the effect between the sense of coherence and the psychological and social well-being in elderly of northern Mexico.

Methodology: A descriptive correlational study was carried out with probabilistic sampling proportional to the size of each stratum. Results: in a sample of 77.3% of women, the Simple Linear Regression Model revealed that the sense of coherence was a positive predictor of psychological (β = .45, p = .001) and social (β = .38, p =. 001) in Elderly.

Conclusions: The sense of coherence can help elderly to understand, manage and give meaning to the events they experience, to perceive their environment as less threatening and to achieve or maintain psychological and social well-being.