英文摘要 |
From the perspective of positive psychological resources, “gratitude“ not only possesses plasticity, but is also an importantpsychological characteristic in elderly development. This study explored the connection between the “gratitude“ of elders andtheir subjective wellbeing and probed into the mediating mechanism between them. Although aging is an inevitable part oflife, elders are faced with many losses and restrictions that make elderly life difficult. Therefore, how to enable elders to “agepositively“ has become an issue of common concern for many scholars. In the past, multi-faceted successful aging indicatorshave often been adopted to reflect positive aging. However, this study used streamlined wellbeing of concern in psychologyinstead and employed basic conditions such as “reasonable physical health“, “low-risk disease or disability“ as the controlvariables. This study that the emotional characteristic (gratitude disposition), a positive psychological resource elders possess,produces significant effects on the wellbeing of elders. Even behind the background variables of controlled population (age,gender) and living status (frequency of falling into illness, exercise status), gratitude disposition still plays an influential roleon the three constituents of wellbeing. Additionally, gratitude disposition mediates the effects of gratitude disposition on theconstituents of wellbeing through emotion (gratitude emotion) or cognition (positive life memory). In other words,psychological resources play a certain role on the wellbeing of elders. This study especially selected gratitude because it is apsychological resource with plasticity. At the same time, it is also in line with reachability in elderly development and is anemotional state often experienced by elders. These two characteristics enable psychologists to focus on changing the situationof elders in order for them to age more positively. |