The Relationship between Social Wellbeing of Elderly and Intimate Attitudes with the Mediating Role of Positive Feelings towards Spouse

Iran is in the transition phase of the age structure, and ensuring the health of the elderly in the next several decades will be one of the most critical challenges of the health system. The present study aimed the relationship between social wellbeing of Elderly based on intimate attitudes with mediating role of positive feelings towards spouse.

The present study was descriptive- correlation. The statistical population included all elderly in Tehran in 2021. 298 people from this community were selected by available sampling method and, they answered the questionnaires of Intimacy Attitude Scale (Amidon, Kumar & Treadwell, 1983), Social Well-Being Questionnaire (Keyes, 2004), and Positive Feelings Questionnaire (O'Leary, Fincham & Turkewitz, 1975). Data were analyzed using path analysis of structural equation and by Amos software.

The findings showed that direct effect social wellbeing on intimate attitudes is significant (P <0.05). The results of the mediating role of positive feelings towards spouse also showed that positive feelings have a significant mediating role between intimate attitudes with social wellbeing (P <0.05).

The results of this study showed that the intimate attitudes directly, and positive feelings towards spouse indirectly has been effective on the social wellbeing of elderly. Therefore, it is suggested that mental health clinics pay attention to intimate attitudes and positive feelings towards spouse in review elderly's social wellbeing.