Personal growth initiatives and life satisfaction among elderly people

Abstract

The purpose of this study is: to describe personal growth initiative in the elderly, to describe the life-satisfaction in the elderly, and to determine the correlation between personal growth initiative and life satisfaction in the elderly. This study uses a descriptive correlational research design, with a simple random sampling method. The sample consisted of 88 elderly. Data was collected from the personal growth initiative scale and life satisfaction scale. All data obtained were analyzed by descriptive analysis and correlational product-moment by Pearson. The result indicated that commonly the elderly have high personal growth initiative commonly the elderly have high life satisfaction personal growth initiative is positively associated with life satisfaction among the elderly (= 0,692; p < 0,01) which means if personal growth initiative of elderly is high as well as the life satisfaction.

Keywords

• personal growth initiatives
• life satisfaction
• elderly

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