The Application In The Emotional Resilience Scale Of Elderly

Emotional Resilience is a ability when the individual in the face of adversity or other negative events,can also have a positive mood,and the ability to quickly recover from the negative emotions.A wide range of emotional will impact on people’s daily life and experience,if a person wants to better adapt to the environment,and get a good development,they must maintain a relatively healthy emotional state.Elderly is a special groups of concern in psychology,Especially China has ushered in an aging society.Aging problems have brought great pressure on pension and social economic development.The elderly experience great changes not only in the physical,psychological and social development,but also have more negative life events taken place in daily life,which can easily lead to produce a variety of negative emotions,and even suicidal ideation,so Emotional Resilience of the elderly population is extremely important.Meantime,elderly emotional resilience research remain preliminary stage,so the research on elderly emotional resilience has important theoretical and practical significance.This research on elderly as the object of study,and including two studies.Study one.This research based on existing relevant theories and empirical analysis,and divided emotional resilience into two dimensions which is positive emotion dimension and emotional recovery dimension.This research also combined with existing literature and theoretical analysis,developing a retest questionnaire of elderly emotional resilience.After further modification and improvement of item analysis and exploratory factor analysis,finally form the formal questionnaire.Afterwards,take the formal questionnaire as tool,select a sample of 500 elderly to investigation and verification questionnaire reliability and validity.Study two.Analysis the present situation and general characteristics of elderly emotional resilience with formal questionnaire of elderly emotional resilience,and analysis the difference in gender,age,residence,education level,economic level of elderly emotional resilience.Rearranged findings,comes to conclusions as follows:(1)The ’elderly emotional resilience questionnaire’ including positive emotion dimension and emotional recovery dimension,a total of 11 questions of the question.The questionnaire are highly in reliability and validity,the internal consistency reliability of elderly emotional resilience questionnaire is 0.837,and its two sub-questionnaire as positive emotion and emotional recovery conclude 6 and 5 objec,respectively,the internal consistency reliability of the two sub-questionnaire is 0.807,0.742,respectively.(2)The overall level of elderly emotional resilience shows middle to upper level,and low level of emotional elderly accounted for relatively minority,the middle level of elderly emotional resilience accounted the majority of elderly,68%of the total elderly.(3)The questionnaire of elderly emotional resilience and sub-dimensions shows significant difference in gender,age,residence,educational level,economic level.Elderly emotional resilience in the total score and sub-dimension shows significant gender differences,male was higher than female;There was significant age differences in the total score and positive emotion,"60-69" was the best group of elderly;There was significant residence differences in the total score and sub-dimension,city elderly was better than that of urban and rural elderly,except city and urban elderly does not reach significant difference,the rest of group reached significantly different level;There was significant culture differences in the total score and sub-dimension,except illiterate-and primary elderly does.not reach significant difference in the total score and positive emotion,the rest of group reached significantly different level and increasing with the culture level;There was significant economic differences in the total score and sub-dimension,and all the group increasing with the economic level.