Psychological well-being among older adults during the covid-19 outbreak: A comparative study of the young-old and the old-old adults.
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The COVID-19 outbreak could be considered as an uncontrollable stressful life event. Lockdown measures have provoked a disruption of daily life with a great impact over older adults' health and well-being. Nevertheless, eudaimonic well-being plays a protective role in confronting adverse circumstances, such as the COVID-19 situation. This study aims to assess the association between age and psychological well-being (personal growth and purpose in life). Young-old (60-70 years) and old-old (71-80 years) community-dwelling Spaniards (N = 878) completed a survey and reported on their sociodemographic characteristics and their levels of health, COVID-19 stress-related, appraisal, and personal resources. Old-old did not evidence poorer psychological well-being than young-old. Age has only a negative impact on personal growth. The results also suggest that the nature of the COVID-19 impact (except for the loss of a loved one) may not be as relevant for the older adults' well-being as their appraisals and personal resources for managing COVID-related problems. In addition, these results suggest that some sociodemographic and health-related variables have an impact on older adults' well-being. Thus, perceived-health, family functioning, resilience, gratitude, and acceptance had significant associations with both personal growth and purpose in life. Efforts to address older adults' psychological well-being focusing on older adults' personal resources should be considered.
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Acceptance, or embracing painful emotions and thoughts, and aligning actions to one's core values are associated with more adaptive outcomes.
“Conversely, acceptance, or even embracing painful emotions and thoughts, and aligning actions to one’s core values have been associated with more adaptive outcomes (Lopez et al., 2020).”
From Dealing With the Pandemic of COVID-19 in Portugal: On the Important Role of Positivity, Experiential Avoidance, and Coping Strategies (2021) · cites this paper as Lopez et al., 2020
The Results report that less experiential avoidance was significantly associated with greater personal growth and purpose in life among older adults during the COVID-19 outbreak. This supports the acceptance-related part of the claim, but the paper does not report whether aligning actions with core values was associated with those outcomes. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- López, J., Perez-Rojo, G., Noriega, C., Carretero, I., Velasco, C., Martinez-Huertas, J. A., López-Frutos, P., & Galarraga, L.
- Affiliations
- Universidad San Pablo CEU (ES)
- Corresponding author
- López, J.
- Venue
- International Psychogeriatrics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-11
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1365-1370
- ISSN
- 1041-6102 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7324658
- OpenAlex
- W3026051564
- Cited by
- 241
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 36 · 2022: 64 · 2021: 73 · 2020: 14
- FWCI
- 18.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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- Locations
- International Psychogeriatrics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Espacio Tiempo y Forma Serie I Prehistoria y Arqueología (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- UNED repository (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Hispana (submittedVersion)
- Biblos-e Archivo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- CEU Repositorio Institucional (Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Keywords
- psychological well-being, older adults, COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown, age differences, young-old, old-old, personal growth, meaning of life, eudaimonic well-being, stress appraisal, personal resources, resilience, gratitude, acceptance, family functioning, health perception, loss of a loved one
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Health Status, Humans, Male, Mental Health, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Support, Spain, Stress, Psychological, Resilience, Psychological, Independent Living, Pandemics
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