The effect of research on life satisfaction in middle-aged and older adults: physical disability and physical activity as a parallel and serial mediation analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Maintaining the life satisfaction of frail middle-aged and older adults when they experience physical disability, lower activity status, or complex conditions that are related to each other is now an urgent issue. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to provide evidence for the impact of frailty in middle-aged and older adults on life satisfaction under the simultaneous occurrence and correlation of physical disability and physical activity status.

Methods

Data from the 2015 Taiwan Longitudinal Study in Ageing (TLSA) were analyzed by PROCESS in SPSS to explore three different mediation models (N = 4,421). The first was a parallel mediation model for exploring life satisfaction in middle-aged and older adults with frailty through physical disabili

SUBMITTER: Li PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10044714 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature