Factors Affecting the Successful Aging of Late Middle-Aged Adults

YonJi Kim; JuHee Lee; Young Joo Lee

doi:10.15384/kjhp.2018.18.2.90

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Kim, Lee, and Lee: Factors Affecting the Successful Aging of Late Middle-Aged Adults

Original Article

Korean Journal of Health Promotion 2018;18(2):90-97.

Published online: June 30, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15384/kjhp.2018.18.2.90

Factors Affecting the Successful Aging of Late Middle-Aged Adults

YonJi Kim¹, JuHee Lee², Young Joo Lee³

¹Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

²College of Nursing Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

³Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Daegu Catholic University, Daegu, Korea.

Corresponding author: Young Joo Lee, PhD. Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Daegu Catholic University, 33 Duryugongwon-ro 17-gil, Nam-gu, Daegu 42472, Korea.
Tel: +82-53-650-3623, Fax: +82-53-650-4392, yjlee39@cu.ac.kr

Received April 16, 2018 Accepted June 22, 2018

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ABSTRACT

Background

As aging is a process that everyone must experience, life expectancy is getting longer and living standards are getting better. But aging can be successful or unsuccessful. Middle-aged adults experience an existential crisis of physical burdens and middle-aged crises, thereby changing the quality of life in old age. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting successful aging in middle-aged adults.

Methods

This is a cross sectional descriptive study design was used to examine the association among middle-age crisis, perceived health status, self-esteem, social support and successful aging in late middle-aged adults.

Results

Perceived health status and social support had a statistically significant effect on successful aging, and middle-aged crisis and self-esteem were not significant. The factors' determination value was 63.6%.

Conclusions

The perceived health status and social support of middle-aged adults may help the successful aging of middle-aged adults. Therefore, it is necessary to develop education for health promoting activities and social support programs with various materials.

Keywords: Middle-aged, Aging, Health status, Social support

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