The Interplay Between Quality of Life and Resilience Factors in Later Life: A Network Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Age-related challenges and transitions can have considerable social, psychological, and physical consequences that may lead to significant changes in quality of life (QoL). As such, maintaining high levels of QoL in later life may crucially depend on the ability to demonstrate resilience (i.e., successful adaptation to late-life challenges). The current study set out to explore the interplay between several resilience factors, and how these contribute to the realization and maintenance of (different facets of) QoL. Based on the previous work, we identified behavioral coping, positive appraisal, self-management ability, and physical activity as key resilience factors. Their interplay with (various facets of) QoL, as measured with the WHOQOL-OLD, was established through network analysis. In

SUBMITTER: Brinkhof LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8634099 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature