The survey of relationship between Memory Self-efficacy and Hope with Quality of Life in Older Adults of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad in 2016

Elderly’s quality of life can be easily threatened by different factors. Therefore, it is crucial to have enough information about elderly’s quality of life and its influencing factors so that actions could be taken to improve their quality of life. Therfore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Memory Self-efficacy and Hope with Quality of Life in older adults.
The present research is a Functional and cross-sectional study. For this purpose, the sample of the research is included 120 elderly adults who older than 60, selected with convenience sampling method. The participants completed the Lipad Quality of Life questionnaire, Memory Self-Efficacy Questionnaire and Snyder Hope Scale. To conduct the necessary descriptive and inferential statistical operations, SPSS (Version 19) was used. Mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation coefficient were utilized to analyze the data in the descriptive statistics section, and in inferential statistics section, simultaneous multiple regressions were used to predict quality of life.
The results show that quality of life has a positive and meaningful relationship with Memory Self-efficacy (P Self-efficacy and hope is an important factor for maintaining quality of life in the elderly. Therefore, understanding the memory self-efficacy and hope and strengthen these factors, can be an effective method to enhance the quality of life of elderly people.