Envelhecimento, institucionalização e bem-estar subjetivo do idoso

Abstract

Which are the levels of subjective well being and quality of life among institutionalized elderly and how it is related to gender and age? And is there a connection between sub-ject well being and the quality of life of the institutionalized elderly? This study has the objective of answering these questions. So we studied 84 institutionalized elderly, with ages between 65 and 85 years old and more years. So we filled a form divided in two parts, the first one related to the characterization of the sample at a sociodemographic level, reason of institutionalization, heath, family visits, relationship between the elderly and the between the ederly and the workers of the institution, and the second part mak-ing an evaluation of the subjective well being, based on WHOQOL-OLD, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PNAS) and the quality of life. The outcome was obtained thought descriptive and inferential statistics and parametric tecniques (t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation) The main conclusions are that the sociodemographic changes don’t affect the subject well being and the quality of life, because the outcomes have not statistical significance. On the other hand we can conclude that the quality of life has a positive and statistical relation with the subjective well being, i.e. with the pleasure of life and the positive af-fect.

Date of Award	30 Sept 2014
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Maria Olívia Dias (Supervisor)