Predictors of Quality of Life in Old Age: A Multivariate Study in Chile

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dc.contributor.authorHerrera, María Soledad
dc.contributor.authorBarros Lezaeta, Carmen
dc.contributor.authorFernández, María Beatriz
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-19T15:25:19Z
dc.date.available2024-01-19T15:25:19Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThere have been few studies that examine quality of life among older adults in the Latin American region. Using a recent representative national survey on quality of life among older adults in Chile, we examine the effects of eight potentially important factors (nutrition, physical activity, going outside the home, reading, quality of family relations, conflict, social support, self-efficacy) on three major dimensions of quality of life (functional capacity, material conditions, general satisfaction with life). The regression models confirm that the major predictive factor of satisfactory functional capacity is the practice of physical activities, while for satisfaction, the major predictive factors are self-efficacy, good quality of social relations, and the performance of significant activities such as reading and going outside the home. Educational level is a variable that cuts across all these predictors, in a context of great unequal social opportunities in Latin America. These results have implications for the development and implementation of social policies and programs to achieve an improvement in living conditions of the growing elderly population in the region, and reduce costs that societies face as a product of this new demographic scenario.
dc.description.funderProyecto FONDECYT 1090326
dc.fuente.origenORCID-ene24
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s12062-011-9043-7
dc.identifier.issn1874-7884
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-011-9043-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/80729
dc.information.autorucInstituto de Sociología;Herrera Ponce, María Soledad;0000-0001-5178-806X;68201
dc.information.autorucInstituto de Sociología;Barros Lezaeta, Carmen;S/I;98696
dc.information.autorucInstituto de Ciencia Política;Fernandez Lorca, María Beatriz;0000-0001-5400-3168;133806
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoContenido parcial
dc.pagina.final139
dc.pagina.inicio121
dc.revistaJournal of Population Ageing
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectQuality of life
dc.subjectWell-being
dc.subjectLife conditions
dc.subjectSocial support
dc.subjectFamily relations
dc.subjectAgeing
dc.subject.ddc300
dc.subject.deweyCiencias socialeses_ES
dc.titlePredictors of Quality of Life in Old Age: A Multivariate Study in Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen4
sipa.codpersvinculados68201
sipa.codpersvinculados98696
sipa.codpersvinculados133806
sipa.trazabilidadORCID;2024-01-08
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