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Defining Successful Aging: Perceptions From Elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i
Background: This study aims to examine the lay perceptions of successful aging among elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i, the state has the highest life expectancy in the United States. Method: Principal components factor analysis and logistic regression models were used to analyze survey data collected amon...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050632/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30035192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721418778182 |
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description | Background: This study aims to examine the lay perceptions of successful aging among elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i, the state has the highest life expectancy in the United States. Method: Principal components factor analysis and logistic regression models were used to analyze survey data collected among 136 respondents who were asked to evaluate the importance of 12 successful aging items developed in Asian societies involving the Chinese population. Results: Results from factor analysis reveal three distinct factors out of the 12 items of successful aging—(a) psychosocial and economic well-being, (b) physical well-being, and (c) social support from adult children. The former two factors were perceived as important dimensions of successful aging by most survey participants, and approximately 35%-41% respondents viewed items composing Factor 3 as important. Discussion: Results suggest that elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i have unique perceptions of successful aging that go beyond the Rowe and Kahn’s biomedical model to include more psychosocial components. In addition, their perceptions are similar to but slightly different from perceptions of elderly Chinese in China and Singapore in levels of familism. Our findings indicate cultural variation of successful aging. |
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spelling | pubmed-60506322018-07-20 Defining Successful Aging: Perceptions From Elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i Zhang, Wei Liu, Sizhe Wu, Bei Gerontol Geriatr Med PINE Study - Quality of Life Background: This study aims to examine the lay perceptions of successful aging among elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i, the state has the highest life expectancy in the United States. Method: Principal components factor analysis and logistic regression models were used to analyze survey data collected among 136 respondents who were asked to evaluate the importance of 12 successful aging items developed in Asian societies involving the Chinese population. Results: Results from factor analysis reveal three distinct factors out of the 12 items of successful aging—(a) psychosocial and economic well-being, (b) physical well-being, and (c) social support from adult children. The former two factors were perceived as important dimensions of successful aging by most survey participants, and approximately 35%-41% respondents viewed items composing Factor 3 as important. Discussion: Results suggest that elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i have unique perceptions of successful aging that go beyond the Rowe and Kahn’s biomedical model to include more psychosocial components. In addition, their perceptions are similar to but slightly different from perceptions of elderly Chinese in China and Singapore in levels of familism. Our findings indicate cultural variation of successful aging. SAGE Publications 2018-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6050632/ /pubmed/30035192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721418778182 Text en © 2018 The Author(s) http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | PINE Study - Quality of Life Zhang, Wei Liu, Sizhe Wu, Bei Defining Successful Aging: Perceptions From Elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i |
title | Defining Successful Aging: Perceptions From Elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i |
title_full | Defining Successful Aging: Perceptions From Elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i |
title_fullStr | Defining Successful Aging: Perceptions From Elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i |
title_full_unstemmed | Defining Successful Aging: Perceptions From Elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i |
title_short | Defining Successful Aging: Perceptions From Elderly Chinese in Hawai‘i |
title_sort | defining successful aging: perceptions from elderly chinese in hawai‘i |
topic | PINE Study - Quality of Life |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050632/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30035192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721418778182 |
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