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Positive Attitudes Toward Older People and Well-being Among Chinese Community Older Adults

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	Abstract

We aimed to explore older people’s attitudes toward aging and to further examine associations of such attitudes with their well-being in a Chinese society—Taiwan. Face-to-face interviews were conducted to collect data using structured questionnaires from a random sample of community older people (N = 316). We found that (a) older people possessed positive attitudes toward aging in general, but there were some group attitudinal differences associated with education attainment and urban residence; (b) older age, fewer social support, and less positive attitudes toward aging were related to more depressive symptoms; (c) younger age, greater social support, greater community participation, and more positive attitudes were related to higher happiness. The associations of positive attitudes with well-being were found after controlling for those of social support and community participation.

First published on September 1, 2009
Journal of Applied Gerontology 2009, doi:10.1177/0733464809343289


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