Bibliographic Analysis of Aging Anxiety and Lifestyle

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AbstractBackgroundWith the recent increase in the older adults population, interest in successful aging is increasing. Aging anxiety, a psychological mechanism that affects successful aging, refers to the inability to feel stable due to worry or fear in old age, which negatively affects the older adult‘s feelings of depression and quality of life. According to a study on successful aging and aging anxiety, it was recently reported that aging anxiety can be prevented by realizing healthy aging through lifestyle intervention. To date, studies analyzing aging anxiety and lifestyle from a macro perspective are insufficient. To compensate for these limitations, bibliographic analysis methods that derive the characteristics of academic literature from bibliographic information are used. Since it is essential to understand research trends from a macroscopic point of view at a time when the need for research on aging anxiety and lifestyle is emphasized, in this study, the flow of research on aging anxiety and lifestyle is identified to prepare basic data for future research.MethodAmong the bibliographic analysis methods, first a citation analysis method that identifies the association based on the number of citations. Second a simultaneous appearance word analysis method that identifies the association based on the number of keywords appeared was used. VOSviewer was used to cluster and chart the analyzed information.ResultThe frequency of published papers by year showed a gradual increase until 2017 and a rapid increase from 2018. In the field of research paper study, research was most actively conducted in the field of psychiatry. In the citation analysis, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom showed high correlation with each other, and as a result of conducting simultaneous word analysis on major keywords, words with high association with ‘aging anxiety’ were found to be ‘depression’.ConclusionThis study is meaningful in that it grasped the flow of aging anxiety and lifestyle research from a macroscopic point of view using a bibliographic analysis method. Based on this, it is expected to understand the importance of lifestyle from the preventive point of view of aging and to be used as basic data for intervention and related education.