The relationship between the meaning of life, psychological well-being, self-care, and social capital, with depression and death anxiety in the elderly living in nursing homes: The mediating role of loneliness

• DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30124
• Publication Date: 2024-04-22T06:09:40Z
• Authors: Majid Yousefi Afr...; Mohammad Reza Maj...; Parisa Janjani; Simon Forstmeier
• Keywords: Death anxiety; Meaning of life

The current study aims to investigate the meaning of life, psychological well-being, self-care, and social capital, with depression death anxiety in elderly living nursing homes through mediating role loneliness. statistical population included all aged at least 60 years Tehran, Qazvin Zanjan, Iran 2020, among whom 489 (273 men 216 women) were selected using convenience sampling method. Participants filled out Steger's Meaning Life, Ryff Singer's Psychological Well-Being Scale, Söderhamn et al.'s Self-Care Ability, Nahapiet Ghoshal's Social Beck's depression, Templer's Death Anxiety, Russell Loneliness questionnaires. results indicated that capital are negatively associated loneliness, which turn, is positively depression. Furthermore, anxiety. Moreover, path analysis revealed hypothesized model has an excellent fit sample. That is, related