Abstract
In the elderly, the perception of life satisfaction and quality of life are related to many factors such as healthy life-span, chronic illnesses, expectations and self-perception of ageing. This study aimed to determine the effects of variables including age, employment, education, cognition, ethnicity, debt, sex differences, intimacy capability, sleep hours, taking salary, home ownership status, and living with a partner on life satisfaction in the Malaysian elderly. This project recruited 2322 subjects who were non-institutionalized Malaysian elderly aged 60 years and above. Life satisfaction was measured by asking in general ‘Are you satisfied with your current life’. The multiple logistic regression analysis was used to predict the effects of susceptible variables on life satisfaction in subjects. Approximately, 90.4 % of samples reported that they were satisfied with their current life. The results of multiple regression analysis showed that ethnic Malay (odds ratio [OR] = 1.50; p = 0.014), and living with a partner (OR = 1.51; p = 0.015) were significantly associated with the higher level of life satisfaction in respondents (p 0.05). It was concluded that ethnic Malay and living with a partner prominently enhanced the level of life satisfaction in respondents. Keywords: Elderly, Quality of life, Life Satisfaction.
Highlights
Life satisfaction is an individual’s subjective well-being that represents a person’s quality of life (QOL) (Anand and Arora, 2009; Kaufman et al, 2010)
The present study evaluated the effects of age, ethnicity, education, sex differences, debt, salary, employment, cognition, home ownership status, intimacy capability, sleep hours and living with a partner on life satisfaction in respondents
The findings indicated that the percentage of life satisfaction among the respondents who were employed (93.7 %) was approximately close to those who were not employed (92.3 %)
Summary
Life satisfaction is an individual’s subjective well-being that represents a person’s quality of life (QOL) (Anand and Arora, 2009; Kaufman et al, 2010). Life satisfaction is a subjective judgment (Anand and Arora, 2009) that is based on the comparison between the expectations and possessions of a person in whole life rather than that in a certain condition (Melek, 2004). Life satisfaction is often used as an indicator to measure successful aging (García et al, 2011), which is characterized by physical health, mental functioning, social active, and financially secure (Eshkoor et al, 2014). This concept is a central theme of gerontology and gerontologist attempt to assist older people to age well
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