AUTHOR=Galiana Laura , Tomás José M. , Fernández Irene , Oliver Amparo 

TITLE=Predicting Well-Being Among the Elderly: The Role of Coping Strategies

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=11

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00616

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00616

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Objectives</title><p>This study aims to offer a wider view on the role of coping strategies on elderly’s well-being by means of literature-based competitive structural equation models (SEMs).</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>857 older adults were surveyed. Measures included Ryff’s scales of Psychological Well-being and the Coping Strategies Questionnaire. Competitive SEMs were tested.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>In the retained model, the religious coping dimension was removed, and the remaining dimensions were defined by problem- and emotion-focused coping, which explained both psychological and subjective well-being factors (χ<sup>2</sup>(46) = 165.910, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.001; CFI = 0.906; GFI = 0.957; RMSEA = 0.058 [0.048,0.067]).</p></sec><sec><title>Discussion</title><p>Results pointed to the relevance of coping strategies for achieving adequate well-being, with emotion-focused coping strategies being the ones with negative and highest predictive power over the two dimensions of well-being. Interventions aiming at improving old people’s well-being should, put their focus on decreasing the use of emotion-coping strategies.</p></sec>