Association of tenacious goal pursuit and flexible goal adjustment with out-of-home mobility among community-dwelling older people.

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 sca

SUBMITTER: Siltanen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6682663 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature