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The effect of positive thinking on resilience and life satisfaction of older adults: a randomized controlled trial
The cumulative effects of adversity and unhappiness affect life satisfaction and quality of life in the growing older adult population. Most of the interventions aimed at improving the health and quality of life of older adults have adopted a problem-oriented or weakness-focused approach. However, a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9977771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36859479 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30684-y |
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author | Taherkhani, Zahra Kaveh, Mohammad Hossein Mani, Arash Ghahremani, Leila Khademi, Khadijeh |
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description | The cumulative effects of adversity and unhappiness affect life satisfaction and quality of life in the growing older adult population. Most of the interventions aimed at improving the health and quality of life of older adults have adopted a problem-oriented or weakness-focused approach. However, a positive or strengths-focused approach can also have a virtuous but more effective capacity to contribute to the well-being and life satisfaction of older adults. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of positive thinking training on improving resilience and life satisfaction among older adults. A randomized controlled trial was conducted on 100 older adults with simple random sampling. The intervention group received 90-min weekly sessions for eight weeks on positive thinking training through written homework for reflection, group discussion, and media. The data were collected using Ingram and Wisnicki Positive Thinking Questionnaire, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, and Tobin Life Satisfaction Questionnaire at baseline and one week and two months after the training. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS software 26. P values below 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Positive thinking training led to better thinking (p < 0.001), higher resilience (p < 0.001), and greater life satisfaction (p < 0.001). The study's findings showed the effectiveness of the positive thinking training approach in improving resilience and life satisfaction in older adults. It is recommended to evaluate the long-term outcome in populations with different social, economic, and cultural statuses in future studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-99777712023-03-03 The effect of positive thinking on resilience and life satisfaction of older adults: a randomized controlled trial Taherkhani, Zahra Kaveh, Mohammad Hossein Mani, Arash Ghahremani, Leila Khademi, Khadijeh Sci Rep Article The cumulative effects of adversity and unhappiness affect life satisfaction and quality of life in the growing older adult population. Most of the interventions aimed at improving the health and quality of life of older adults have adopted a problem-oriented or weakness-focused approach. However, a positive or strengths-focused approach can also have a virtuous but more effective capacity to contribute to the well-being and life satisfaction of older adults. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of positive thinking training on improving resilience and life satisfaction among older adults. A randomized controlled trial was conducted on 100 older adults with simple random sampling. The intervention group received 90-min weekly sessions for eight weeks on positive thinking training through written homework for reflection, group discussion, and media. The data were collected using Ingram and Wisnicki Positive Thinking Questionnaire, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, and Tobin Life Satisfaction Questionnaire at baseline and one week and two months after the training. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS software 26. P values below 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Positive thinking training led to better thinking (p < 0.001), higher resilience (p < 0.001), and greater life satisfaction (p < 0.001). The study's findings showed the effectiveness of the positive thinking training approach in improving resilience and life satisfaction in older adults. It is recommended to evaluate the long-term outcome in populations with different social, economic, and cultural statuses in future studies. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9977771/ /pubmed/36859479 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30684-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Taherkhani, Zahra Kaveh, Mohammad Hossein Mani, Arash Ghahremani, Leila Khademi, Khadijeh The effect of positive thinking on resilience and life satisfaction of older adults: a randomized controlled trial |
title | The effect of positive thinking on resilience and life satisfaction of older adults: a randomized controlled trial |
title_full | The effect of positive thinking on resilience and life satisfaction of older adults: a randomized controlled trial |
title_fullStr | The effect of positive thinking on resilience and life satisfaction of older adults: a randomized controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of positive thinking on resilience and life satisfaction of older adults: a randomized controlled trial |
title_short | The effect of positive thinking on resilience and life satisfaction of older adults: a randomized controlled trial |
title_sort | effect of positive thinking on resilience and life satisfaction of older adults: a randomized controlled trial |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9977771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36859479 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30684-y |
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