Hope, Resilience, Social Skills and Successful Aging of the Elderly in an Elderly Club, Nonthaburi Province
Keywords:
Hope, Social skills, Successful agingAbstract
The objectives of this research were as follow: 1) to study the level of hope, resilience, social skills and successful aging.; 2) to compare successful aging of the elderly by personal factors; 3) to study the relationship between hope and successful aging of the elderly; 4) to study the relationship between resilience and successful aging of the elderly; and 5) to study the relationship between social skills and successful aging of the elderly. The samples used in this research were 338 elderly in an elderly club, Nonthaburi Province.; the data were collected by using questionnaires. The statistical methods used for analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, F-test (one way ANOVA), multiple comparison (LSD), and Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient. The level of significance was set at .05. The results of the study were as follow: 1) the level of hope and social skills of the elderly were at moderate level, resilience and successful aging were at high level; 2) the elderly who had difference in participation in activities were found to have difference in their successful aging at .01 level of significance; 3) hope, resilience and social skills were found to correlate positively to successful aging at .01 level of significance.
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