Older adults' subjective aging perceptions, mentalization, and social relationships: a micro-longitudinal study.

IF 2.8 3区 医学 Q3 GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY Aging & Mental Health Pub Date : 2024-07-29 DOI:10.1080/13607863.2024.2382798
Yoav S Bergman, Amit Shrira, Orel Swisa, Gali H Weissberger
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Objectives: Social relationships are associated with various positive physical, psychological, and emotional outcomes in older adults. In line with the growing understanding of the role of subjective views of aging (VoA) for older adults' quality of life, the current work examines how daily fluctuations in VoA affect social relationships. Moreover, as the ability to mentalize others' states of mind (i.e. Theory of Mind) considerably enhances such relationships, this study assesses whether mentalization abilities mediate the VoA-social relationships link.

Method: Eighty-two Israeli older adults (mean age = 73.44, SD = 8.64, range = 60-95) completed a baseline online questionnaire containing background information, and subsequently filled out daily online questionnaires assessing ageist attitudes, subjective age, mentalization abilities, and positive social relationships for 14 consecutive days.

Results: Positive VoA (reduced ageist attitudes and/or a young subjective age) were associated with enhanced mentalization and positive relationships on a given day and in time-lagged analyses. Moreover, mentalization mediated the effect of previous-day VoA on next-day positive social relationships. VoA also mediated the effect of previous-day mentalization on next-day positive social relationships.

Conclusion: The study highlights the importance of mentalization capabilities for maintaining positive VoA/social relationships and expands the understanding of underlying factors associated with meaningful and close relationships in older adults.

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老年人的主观老龄化感知、心智化和社会关系:一项微观纵向研究。
目的:社会关系与老年人各种积极的生理、心理和情感结果有关。随着人们对老龄化主观看法(VoA)对老年人生活质量的作用的认识不断加深,目前的研究探讨了老龄化主观看法的日常波动对社会关系的影响。此外,由于将他人的心理状态心理化的能力(即心智理论)会大大增强这种关系,本研究评估了心理化能力是否会调解老龄化主观看法与社会关系之间的联系:82名以色列老年人(平均年龄=73.44,SD=8.64,范围=60-95)填写了一份包含背景信息的基线在线问卷,随后连续14天每天填写在线问卷,评估年龄歧视态度、主观年龄、心智化能力和积极的社会关系:在特定的一天和时滞分析中,积极的 VoA(年龄歧视态度减少和/或主观年龄变小)与心智化能力增强和积极的人际关系有关。此外,心理化对前一天的 VoA 对第二天积极社会关系的影响具有中介作用。VoA也能调节前一天的心智化对第二天积极社会关系的影响:这项研究强调了心智化能力对于维持积极的 VoA/社会关系的重要性,并拓展了对与老年人有意义的亲密关系相关的潜在因素的理解。
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Aging & Mental Health
Aging & Mental Health 医学-精神病学
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7.00
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2.90%
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176
审稿时长
4-8 weeks
期刊介绍: Aging & Mental Health provides a leading international forum for the rapidly expanding field which investigates the relationship between the aging process and mental health. The journal addresses the mental changes associated with normal and abnormal or pathological aging, as well as the psychological and psychiatric problems of the aging population. The journal also has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary and innovative approaches that explore new topics and methods. Aging & Mental Health covers the biological, psychological and social aspects of aging as they relate to mental health. In particular it encourages an integrated approach for examining various biopsychosocial processes and etiological factors associated with psychological changes in the elderly. It also emphasizes the various strategies, therapies and services which may be directed at improving the mental health of the elderly and their families. In this way the journal promotes a strong alliance among the theoretical, experimental and applied sciences across a range of issues affecting mental health and aging. The emphasis of the journal is on rigorous quantitative, and qualitative, research and, high quality innovative studies on emerging topics.
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