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Study Of The Impact Of Participating In Exercise On Psychological Health Status, Happiness And Quality Of Life Of Elderly And Other Relevant Factors

Posted on:2006-02-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J P LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2144360155467629Subject:Epidemiology and Health Statistics
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Objective : To analyze relationship in the status of psychological health, happiness and quality of life and major influencing factors between elderly who participate in exercise and non-exercise in Wuxi area.Methods: 158 elderly who participate in moming exercise for more than two years and 172 elderly from urban area of Wuxi were investigated by Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90), Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH), World Health Organization WHOQOL-100 and general health status questionnaire, Chi-square test, student's t-test, one-way analysis of variance(AVOVA), Multivariate analysis of variance > Multiple linear regression analysis and Canonical correlation analysis was used to study their relationship.Results: (1) the status of psychological health of Wuxi old people is well, and overall level of psychological health of elderly of morning exercise group is higher than that of control group, along with the increase of exercise time, the level of psychological health rises step by step. The major factor that affects the psychological health of old people is period of exercising time, social position and the residential condition.(2) to exercise to be helpful to raise positive emotion and experience of old people, reducing negative emotion and experience and being helpful to raise the subjective happiness of old people. The overall subjectively happiness of old people of Morning exercise group is higher than that of control group. Major influencing factor is Spouses affection, filial of children, children satisfactory degree, interpersonal relationship .attitude for retiremen.(3) the relation of negative experience and negative emotion and the level of psychological health most close, negative experience is biggest for the influence of the level of psychological health, to the old people, specially the factor of somatization was related to negative experience and negative emotion.( 4 ) there are significant difference in the total score of quality of life, physiological field, psychological field, independence field, social relation, environmental field and spiritual prop fields between study group and control group, and morning exercise group score is significantly higher than control group. The overall quality of life of old people of Morning exercise group is higher than that of control group. Major influencing factor is social position , health status, family life (family harmonious, filial of children, spouse alive etc.), whether own hobby do not get restrictionConclusion: (1) the overall level of m psychological health of the old people who attend physical exercise of mental health t is better than that of old people who not exercise, the major factor that affects the psychological health of Wuxi old people is period of exercise time, social position and residential condition.(2) the overall subjective happiness of the old people who attend physical exercise for a long period is better than that of not exercising old people. Affect the most major factor of the happiness degree of old people is spouses affection and filial of children, children satisfaction degree, interpersonal relationship, attitude to retirement。(3) happiness is related to score of SCL-90 by factor of somatization to negative experience and negative emotion. (4) to attend physical exercise is helpful to raise the quality of life of the old people. The major factor that affects the quality of life of old people is social position, family life quality and healthy condition.
Keywords/Search Tags:scl-90, happiness, quality of life, exercise, Hotelling T~2, Canonical analysis
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