As aging is a process that everyone must experience, life expectancy is getting longer and living standards are getting better. But aging can be successful or unsuccessful. Middle-aged adults experience an existential crisis of physical burdens and middle-aged crises, thereby changing the quality of life in old age. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting successful aging in middle-aged adults.
This is a cross sectional descriptive study design was used to examine the association among middle-age crisis, perceived health status, self-esteem, social support and successful aging in late middle-aged adults.
Perceived health status and social support had a statistically significant effect on successful aging, and middle-aged crisis and self-esteem were not significant. The factors' determination value was 63.6%.
The perceived health status and social support of middle-aged adults may help the successful aging of middle-aged adults. Therefore, it is necessary to develop education for health promoting activities and social support programs with various materials.
Abbreviations: KRW, Korean won; SD, standard deviation.
Values are presented as mean±SD or number (%).
aValues are presented as mean±SD and calculated by ANOVA.
bHypertension, stroke, diabetes mellitus, arthritis, respiratory disease, cardiac disease, depression, cancer, etc.
cMultiple comparison by Scheffé method.
Abbreviation: SE, standard error.
aReference: gender: male=0; marital status: no=0; education: middle school or lower=0; employment: yes=0; presence of disease: yes=0.