This study examined the relatioships among social economic factors, demographic factors, the Developmental Tasks Achievement and the Life Satisfaction in a Probability.
Data were obtained in interviews with 207 noninstitutionalized persons aged 60 a...
This study examined the relatioships among social economic factors, demographic factors, the Developmental Tasks Achievement and the Life Satisfaction in a Probability.
Data were obtained in interviews with 207 noninstitutionalized persons aged 60 and older.
The Development Tasks Achievement scale appears to measure the following dimensions; private and physical, family life, social life.
Of the variables education, income, religion, economic status, self-reported health was significant with the Life Satisfaction and age, sex, education, economic status, self-reported health, income, religion, marital status was significant with the total Development Tasks Achievement.(Anova, T-test was used).
In order to determine social economic factor, demographic factor, the Developmental Tasks Achievement variables predict the Life satisfaction regression analysis was used.
Of the variables employed was the best predictor of the Life satisfaction was family life dimension of the Developmental Tasks Achievement(R²=0.4911).
Also it was found that economic status(R²=0.2783), private and physical dimension of the Developmental Tasks(R²=0.2675), social life dimension(R²=0.2511), self-reported health(R²=0.0831) variables were associated with the Life satisfaction.