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Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal
OBJECTIVES: Human aging is a multidirectional, multidimensional, and multicausal process that reflects biological, psychological, and sociocultural influences, which act in distinct combinations throughout the life-span. Proactivity towards avoiding the usual aging process is needed. This study anal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10198493/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37205691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286115 |
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author | Bastos, Alice Monteiro, Joana Barbosa, Raquel Pimentel, Helena Silva, Sofia Faria, Carla |
author_facet | Bastos, Alice Monteiro, Joana Barbosa, Raquel Pimentel, Helena Silva, Sofia Faria, Carla |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Human aging is a multidirectional, multidimensional, and multicausal process that reflects biological, psychological, and sociocultural influences, which act in distinct combinations throughout the life-span. Proactivity towards avoiding the usual aging process is needed. This study analyses the long-term effects of participation in Community-Based Programs on psychological well-being. METHOD: A sample of 150 community-dwelling participants enrolled in Community-Based Programs, aged 55 to 84 years and living in three Portuguese localities were matched by age (55–64, 65–74, 75–84 years), gender, and locality with a comparison group of non-participants. We administered a multidimensional gerontological protocol which included socio-demographic information, measures of health/disease, functional ability, social network, cognitive performance and psychological well-being. Hierarchical regression models were used to test the effects of Community-Based Programs on psychological well-being adjusting for remaining variables. RESULTS: Overall, psychological well-being is positively associated with household income and satisfaction with health. Nevertheless, in participants, psychological well-being builds predominantly upon social network and is not associated with a moderate inability or cognitive deficits, contrasting with psychological well-being in non-participants. After adjusting for background variables, psychological well-being was positively associated with health satisfaction and social network and negatively related to moderate inability. Further, a significant interaction of participation in Community-Based Programs with age, points out higher levels of psychological well-being in participants contrasting with a downward trend in non-participants. After stratification by age, psychological well-being increases with time attending Community-Based Programs in the oldest (75–84 years) contrasting with the remainder. CONCLUSIONS: Participation in Community-Based Programs may improve the negative effects of the aging process on psychological well-being. This positive effect as age increases may be linked to a reinforcement of social network, valued more by participants in Community-Based Programs. Furthermore, the programs may act as a healing/maintenance strategy in persons with moderate inability and/or cognitive deficits. |
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spelling | pubmed-101984932023-05-20 Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal Bastos, Alice Monteiro, Joana Barbosa, Raquel Pimentel, Helena Silva, Sofia Faria, Carla PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVES: Human aging is a multidirectional, multidimensional, and multicausal process that reflects biological, psychological, and sociocultural influences, which act in distinct combinations throughout the life-span. Proactivity towards avoiding the usual aging process is needed. This study analyses the long-term effects of participation in Community-Based Programs on psychological well-being. METHOD: A sample of 150 community-dwelling participants enrolled in Community-Based Programs, aged 55 to 84 years and living in three Portuguese localities were matched by age (55–64, 65–74, 75–84 years), gender, and locality with a comparison group of non-participants. We administered a multidimensional gerontological protocol which included socio-demographic information, measures of health/disease, functional ability, social network, cognitive performance and psychological well-being. Hierarchical regression models were used to test the effects of Community-Based Programs on psychological well-being adjusting for remaining variables. RESULTS: Overall, psychological well-being is positively associated with household income and satisfaction with health. Nevertheless, in participants, psychological well-being builds predominantly upon social network and is not associated with a moderate inability or cognitive deficits, contrasting with psychological well-being in non-participants. After adjusting for background variables, psychological well-being was positively associated with health satisfaction and social network and negatively related to moderate inability. Further, a significant interaction of participation in Community-Based Programs with age, points out higher levels of psychological well-being in participants contrasting with a downward trend in non-participants. After stratification by age, psychological well-being increases with time attending Community-Based Programs in the oldest (75–84 years) contrasting with the remainder. CONCLUSIONS: Participation in Community-Based Programs may improve the negative effects of the aging process on psychological well-being. This positive effect as age increases may be linked to a reinforcement of social network, valued more by participants in Community-Based Programs. Furthermore, the programs may act as a healing/maintenance strategy in persons with moderate inability and/or cognitive deficits. Public Library of Science 2023-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10198493/ /pubmed/37205691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286115 Text en © 2023 Bastos et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bastos, Alice Monteiro, Joana Barbosa, Raquel Pimentel, Helena Silva, Sofia Faria, Carla Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal |
title | Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal |
title_full | Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal |
title_fullStr | Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal |
title_full_unstemmed | Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal |
title_short | Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal |
title_sort | engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: findings from community-based programs in portugal |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10198493/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37205691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286115 |
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