نشریه روانشناسی پیری
سال سوم شماره 4 (پیاپی 11، زمستان 1396)

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of Hope therapy on Enhancement of Happiness and Quality of life in Elderly Women in tasooj. The study was a quasi-experimental research and conducted through the pre-test, post-test with control group .The participants of this study were 30 elderly women that were selected by voluntary sampling method and assigned to experimental and control groups randomly. Exprimental group, were trained for hope group intervention for 8 session of 90 minutes and 2 timed weekly. The data collected through oxford happiness questionnaire and World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire. Research data were analyzed by SPSS software and Analysis of Covariance. The results indicated that hope therapy is effective in promotion of happiness and quality of life in Elderly Women. Overal results indicate that hope therapy increases the happiness and quality of life of elderly women. based on the results of the present study, hope intervention can be used for improvement of happiness and quality of life in Elderly Women

Due to the growing elderly population, it is necessary to improve the psychological characteristics of them including wisdom. As a result, this research aimed to investigate the relationship of religious adherence, authentic personality, post-traumatic growth and flexibility with wisdom in elderly through mediation of self-coherence. This study was a cross-sectional from type of path analysis. Research population included of elderly in Ahvaz city in 2017 year that from them 300 people was selected by available sampling method. All of them completed the questionnaires of religious adherence (Janbozorgi, 2009), authentic personality (Wood & et al, 2008), post-traumatic growth (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996), flexibility (Dennis & VanderWal, 2010), wisdom (Schmit & et al, 2012) and self-coherence (Flensborg-Madsen & et al, 2006). Data were analyzed with Pearson correlation and path analysis methods and with using SPSS-21 and LISREL 8/8. The results showed that authentic personality and post-traumatic growth had a positive direct and significant effect on self-coherence of elderly and self-coherence had a positive direct and significant effect on wisdom of elderly. Also, authentic personality and post-traumatic growth through mediation of self-coherence had a positive indirect and significant effect on wisdom of elderly. The self-coherence variable was a good mediator between the authentic personality and post-traumatic growth with wisdom of elderly (p

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of resiliency components of the anxiety of death and life expectancy of elderly in Qazvin. Research method was based on a quasi-experimental method and used pretest - posttest with control group. Sampling is done by available as well as random assignment. 50 samples attended in two nursing homes were given a test and 30 people of them had chosen with high anxiety and low life expectancy and were tested randomly in two different groups, then we made it Evidence-alternative.The experimental group was submitted to the ninth session of resiliency components and the control group did not receive any intervention. The assessment tools of test variables included Davidson Resilience Scale, and a questionnaire of Inserts of Templar death anxiety and Schneider hope questionnaire. Data were analyzed by analysis of covariance and the results showed that resilience training is effective in reducing death anxiety and increased life expectancy (P

Considering the various physical and psychological stresses in the aging period, especially in elderly residents of sanatoriao, stydying the factors affecting resilience such as perception of God and meaning of life seems necessary. Thus the aim of this study was to investigate the role of perception of God and meaning of life in resilience of elderly residents in sanatoria. This descriptive correlational study was carried out on 225 elderly residents of sanatoria who was sellected using random clustered sampling in Rasht in 2017. The data collection instruments were Lawrence’ perception of God, Steger et al’s meaning of life and Connor and Davidson’s resilience. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics consisting mean and standard deviation and also analytical statistics consisting pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise muliple regression. The results of this study revealed positive relationship between perception of God and meaning life with resilience. The regression showed that meaning of life and subscales of benevolence and providence can predict resilience of elderly. Regarding the determinants of resilience in this research, one can increase resilience by reinforcing perception of God and correcting his perception of God’s acceptance, and designing and using meaning therapy

According the rising population of the elderly in the country and the vital importance of adjustment and life expectancy in them, The role of different variables in this field seems to be necessary. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between health promoting life styles and sleep quality with social adjustment and life expectancy among elderly. This study in term purpose was applied and in term implementation was descriptive style and canonical correlation type. The statistical population of this research was all the elderly care centers in Ahvaz city. Out of this community, 132 people were selected by simple random sampling. All the subjects completed Walker Health Promotion Life Style Questionnaire, Petersburg quality of sleep questionnaire, Pique and Samoun social adjustment inventory and Miller and Powers life expectancy questionnaire. For data analysis used canonical correlation. The findings of canonical correlation showed that between collection of predictors variables (health promoting life styles and sleep quality) and between collection of criterions variables (social adjustment and life expectancy) was meaningful canonical coefficient with 0/689. Also, in this study, the findings of structural coefficients showed that in collection of predictors variables, health promoting lifestyles life and in collection of criterions variables, life expectancy were best predictors in own collections. So, promoting in health promoting life styles and sleep quality enhancing social adjustment and life expectancy were statistically significant

Anxiety and worry about death can have negative effects on the lives of people, especially the elderly. Therefore, special attention and prevention of anxiety disorder in the elderly is necessary. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between religious orientation and death anxiety in the elderly with mediating role of ageing self and spiritual well-being. This research was a descriptive-correlation study. The statistical population of the study consisted of all elderly people over 58 years of age in Khorramabad city in 1397. The sampling method was 202 subjects (111 males and 91 females) selected as the sample. For data collection, religious orientation, aging, spiritual well-being and death anxiety questionnaires were used. Structural equation modeling was used as a statistical method for data analysis that indicated the significance of relationships between research variables. Also, the results of structural equation modeling showed that religious orientation has an indirect effect on ageing self and spiritual well-being on death anxiety. Based on the results of this study, it can be said that religious orientation through positive perception of aging and spiritual health is an important factor in reducing the death anxiety in the elderly