Optimism as a Mediation between Self-Acceptance and Successful Aging for Elderly

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10.2991/acpch-18.2019.30How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Optimism, successful aging, elderly

Abstract

Aging could not be avoided by individuals. Those who accepted aging happened to themselves would be successfully able to face it. On the other hand, those who could not accept aging, they would face obstacles in their lives. This study was aimed at measuring self-acceptance and successful aging by using optimism as a mediation. The subjects of this study were 54 elderly people who joined Islamic Religious activity in AR Hakim of Malang. The instrument used were Successful Aging Scale (SAS), The Sort Optimism Scale (TOS), Self-Acceptance Scale, while the data analysis used mediation regression Hayes SPSS 2.1. The result of this study showed that the mediator variable was available on the three criteria. The effect of self-acceptance in successful aging was not significant if there was optimism in analysis. Optimism affected successful aging with significance 0.0048.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ulya Rahmatullatifa Umami
AU  - Inastasya
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - Optimism as a Mediation between Self-Acceptance and Successful Aging for Elderly
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 118
EP  - 121
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/acpch-18.2019.30
DO  - 10.2991/acpch-18.2019.30
ID  - Umami2019/03
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