Association of tenacious goal pursuit and flexible goal adjustment with out-of-home mobility among community-dwelling older people.
Aging Clin Exp Res
; 31(9): 1249-1256, 2019 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
As people age, functional losses may limit the potential to get outside the home and participate in desired activities and community life. Coping with age-related losses has been reported to be important for psychological well-being. Hitherto is not known whether active use of coping strategies also helps maintain out-of-home mobility.AIMS:
We investigated how two coping strategies, tenacious goal pursuit (TGP; persistency in reaching one's goals) and flexible goal adjustment (FGA; adjusting one's goals to changed circumstances), are associated with life-space mobility and perceived autonomy in participation outdoors among community-dwelling older people.METHODS:
Participants (n = 186) were aged 79-93 years. TGP and FGA were self-reported using separate scales. Perceived autonomy in participation was assessed with the Impact on Participation and Autonomy Outdoors-subscale, and life-space mobility with the Life-Space Assessment. Two-step cluster analysis was used to create data-driven coping profiles of TGP and FGA.RESULTS:
General linear model analyses showed that the profile including highly tenacious and flexible older people had the highest life-space mobility and perceived autonomy outdoors, whereas the profile including people with low TGP and low FGA showed the lowest scores. Depressive symptoms attenuated the associations.CONCLUSIONS:
Active use of both TGP and FGA is favorable for out-of-home mobility and enables more active participation in society in later life.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Envelhecimento
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Adaptação Psicológica
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Objetivos
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2019
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Article