ムラヤマ ノリオ    Murayama Norio
   村山 憲男
   所属
人間社会学部 心理学科
 
生活機構研究科 心理学専攻
 
生活心理研究所 所属教員
   職種
准教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2018/11
形態種別 学術雑誌
査読 査読あり
標題 The role of psychological autonomy in the acceptance of ageing among community-dwelling elderly
執筆形態 共著
掲載誌名 Psychogeriatrics
掲載区分国外
巻・号・頁 18,pp.439-445
著者・共著者 Yuko FUKASE, Norio MURAYAMA, Hirokuni TAGAYA
概要 Aim: Previous research on psychological autonomy has focused on self-reliance. However, given that ageing is inevitable, acceptance of ageing might be a more stable factor that reflects quality of life (QOL) status. This study examined factors that affect the acceptance of ageing as a part of psychological autonomy.
Methods: We conducted questionnaire surveys among community-dwelling elderly people. The questionnaires consisted of the psychological autonomy scale, the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale, and the QOL scale.
Results: In total, 572 elderly people completed the questionnaire, including 293 younger elderly and 279 older elderly. In both age groups, a ceiling effect was observed for the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale. There was no positive relation between acceptance of ageing and QOL, and particularly in younger elderly people, acceptance of ageing was negatively related to QOL. However, the correlation between acceptance of ageing and self-reliance was positive, and self-reliance was positively related to QOL in younger elderly people.
Conclusions: The acceptance of ageing did not show a positive relation in our participants who had high activities of daily living. Acceptance of ageing might be important for elderly people who have a physical disability and several restrictions in their daily life. For younger elderly people, acceptance of ageing was correlated with getting depression, in which case it is useful to reject self-ageing for QOL, and it was related to QOL through self-reliance.