The Relationship Between Attitudes Towards Ageing And Psychological Well-Being In Older Adults

Abstract

Age is a key stage that calls for special care in adjusting to life's changes(Mao et al, 2019). According to Griffin (2016), one's perspective on aging can have a significant impact on one's health. Age-related negative attitudes will impact later years' physical and cognitive health. Physical and mental health is tightly tied to wellbeing, and as people age well, this relationship may become even more important. The study of older individuals' perspectives on ageing well is emerging as a crucial topic of research since the state of well-being is a complex phenomenon that refers to a person's subjective sentiments (Willen et al, 2018). The researcher has planned to study the attitude towards ageing and psychological well-being of the older persons residing in rural and urban areas of Perambalur district. Descriptive research design was used and 100 respondents were selected using simple random sampling method for this study. A standardized tool was used. The major findings of thestudy revealed that 35 per cent of the respondents have high level of attitude towards ageing and 48 per cent of the respondents had moderate attitude towards ageing, and more than half of the respondents (51%) had high autonomy, moderate level of environmental mastery, purpose in life and positive relation and nearly 59 per cent of the respondents had moderate level of psychological well-being.