A Study On The Relationship Between Life Events, Psychological Elasticity And Quality Of Life Of Urban Old People

As a positive psychological quality, Resilience plays a crucial role inconfronting stress and obtaining better development. Domestic study of resilience isjust in its starting stage; very little empirical research has been done. And the objectof study is mainly concentrated in the youth and college students, there are fewresearchers have studied resilience of the elderly. But the phenomenon of agingpopulation in China is more and more serious; therefore, it is necessary for us tounderstand the resilience status of the elderly and to explore the relationship amonglife events, resilience and the quality of life.This study consists of two parts: Study one, develop Resilience questionnaire ofthe elderly, and test the psychometric indicators of the scale. Study two,654elderlywere selected in Kunming Yunnan province as research objects. The overall statusand differences in demography variables of the elderly were analyzed systematicallyin their life events, resilience and quality of life. Then the relationship among lifeevents, resilience and quality of life of the elderly were discussed. Conclusions are asfollow:1. The structure of Resilience questionnaire of the elderly includes22items andfive factors, that is self-efficacy, interpersonal assistance, problem solving ability,family support and emotional adjustment. After item analysis, exploratory factoranalysis, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability and validity analysis, the result dataindicate to meet the statistical criteria and Resilience questionnaire of the elderly canbe used as a tool for measuring resilience of the elderly;2. The overall resilience of the elderly is in a medium level; the overallresilience of the elderly has obvious differences in terms of age, gender, educationlevel, inhabiting status, source of income, family atmosphere physical condition andself-care situation; and there is no significant difference in term of marital status.3. The health-related events of the elderly are significantly more thanfamily-related events, social-and-other-aspects-related events. Life events of the elderly has significant in terms of age, education level, marital status, inhabitingstatus, source of income, family atmosphere physical condition and self-caresituation; and there is no significant difference in term of gender.4. In the areas of physical, psychological, social relationships and environment,the score of elderly in the quality of life were higher than average; more than70%ofthe elderly were satisfied with the evaluation of overall quality of life and healthstatus. There is significant impact on one or more areas of the elderly for theirquality of life in terms of age, gender, education level, marital status, inhabitingstatus, source of income, family atmosphere physical condition, self-care situationand other demographic variables.5. Resilience of the elderly was in significant negative correlation with Life eventand in positive correlation with the quality of life. The quality of life of the elderlywas in negative correlation with health-related events.6. Resilience and emotional adjustment can positively predict the quality of life,while, the health-related events can negatively predict the quality of life...