La predicción de la satisfacción con la vida en personas mayores de Angolael efecto moderador del género

  1. Gutiérrez Sanmartín, Melchor
  2. Galiana Llinares, Laura
  3. Tomás Miguel, Jose Manuel
  4. Sancho Requena, Patricia
  5. Sanchís, Enrique
Revista:
Psychosocial Intervention

ISSN: 1132-0559

Año de publicación: 2014

Volumen: 23

Número: 1

Páginas: 17-23

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5093/IN2014A2 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

Existe abundante investigación que ha estudiado la satisfacción vital en personas mayores y ha encontrado evidencia empírica de sus mejores predictores. Cuando se estudia la satisfacción con la vida de las personas mayores y sus predictores se hallan diferencias en función del género incluyendo, por ejemplo, las interacciones con la viudedad. En este contexto, el presente estudio se ha centrado en los siguientes objetivos: (1) poner a prueba la invarianza en función del género de una medida de satisfacción con la vida, (2) predecir la satisfacción vital usando varias variables relacionadas con el proceso de envejecimiento y (3) poner a prueba el potencial efecto moderador del género en esta predicción. La muestra estaba compuesta por 1003 personas mayores angoleñas. Se probaron varios modelos estructurales MIMIC multi-grupo (hombres vs. mujeres). Por un lado, los resultados mostraron que existe invarianza en función del género para la medida de satisfacción vital. Por otro lado, no se encontró efecto de moderación en las variables relacionadas con el proceso de envejecimiento. En otras palabras, los efectos estimados de las variables psicosociales en la satisfacción con la vida son los mismos en ambos géneros. La discusión relaciona estos resultados con la literatura existente y señala las contribuciones de este estudio

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