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Optimism and social support moderate the indirect relationship between self-efficacy and happiness through mental health in the elderly.
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- The effects of social support and self-efficacy on hopefulness in low-income older adults during COVID-19 pandemic.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Pathways of Media Contact to Health Literacy in Middle-Aged and Older People: The Chain Mediation Effect of Perceived Social Support and Self-Efficacy.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- Enjoying the golden years: social participation and life satisfaction among Chinese older adults.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Loneliness and depression in older adults with multimorbidity: the role of self-efficacy and social support.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Children's internal migration and subjective wellbeing of older parents left behind: Spiritual or financial support?Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Relationship between adverse childhood experiences and anxiety symptoms among Chinese adolescents: The role of self-compassion and social support.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Global research trends in the subjective well-being of older adults from 2002 to 2021: A bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
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Abstract
We examined the role of self-efficacy, social support, optimism, and mental health in the prediction of happiness in the elderly. Moderated mediation analyses confirmed a full mediation in which self-efficacy, through perceived mental health and moderated by social support, predicts happiness moderated, in turn, by optimism. When an elder is self-efficacious, his or her mental well-being seems more likely to be improved and translated into enhanced happiness when social support and optimism are moderate to high. We provide preliminary results on the interplay of these psychosocial resources in improving subjective well-being that may help in designing tailored interventions for promoting happiness in late adulthood.
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