El optimismo como mediador entre la resiliencia y estados afectivos en adultos mayores
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Universidad de Jaén
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ISSN: 0210-9395, 1579-3699
Year of publication: 2018
Issue Title: Envejecimiento exitoso
Volume: 39
Issue: 2-3
Pages: 275-285
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios de Psicología = Studies in Psychology
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore whether resilience is associated with and a predictor of depression, anxiety, negative and positive affect, life satisfaction and subjective happiness in older adults, and whether these relationships are mediated by optimism. To analyse this, different scales were administered to a sample of 240 elderly people and correlational and mediational analysis was carried out. The results showed relationships between all the variables. Similarly, we found that optimism is a partial mediator of the relationship between resilience and the aforementioned variables. Our results evidenced that increasing resilience and optimism in elderly people could be favourable to successful ageing.