Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19052654
Keywords
attitude toward aging; leisure activities; physical exercise; volunteer service
Funding
- Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan [25 M06M2346]
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Attitude toward aging significantly influences the current and future health of middle-aged and older adults, and factors associated with this attitude include demographic factors (such as age, gender, education) and health-related factors (such as depression, physical function dependency). Beneficial activities for attitude toward aging include physical exercise, volunteer service, and leisure activities.
In middle-aged and older adults, attitude toward aging (ATA) exerts significant influences on their current and future health. For health promotion to be successful, participants' ATA requires health care providers' attention. Knowing the factors associated with ATA can facilitate future studies to investigate effective interventions. The aim of this study was to identify the factors associated with ATA in middle-aged and older adults. This cross-sectional study analyzed data of a nationally representative sample of adults aged 58 years and older collected in a population-based longitudinal study: the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging (TLSA). To identify the factors associated with ATA, we investigated demographic factors (age, gender, education, marital and cohabitation status, and financial satisfaction status) and health-related factors (number of co-morbidities, depression, physical function dependency) with bivariate analysis and multiple regression analysis. To identify the activities beneficial to ATA over and above demographic and health-related factors, various activities (exercise, volunteer service, and leisure activities) were each examined individually by multiple regression analysis. The factors detrimental to ATA were advanced age, a higher number of co-morbidities, living alone, depression, and dependence on physical function. Those beneficial to ATA were higher education, financial satisfaction, physical exercise, volunteer service, and six leisure activities.
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