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Associative participation of older adults and subjective quality of life
— exploring self-selection bias | | Author(s) | Karim Ahmed-Mohamed, Fermina Rojo-Perez, Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 35, no 7, August 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, August 2015 |
| Pages | pp 1343-1363 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Participation ; Quality of life ; Well being ; Spain. |
| Annotation | Active ageing policies seek to increase the quality of life of older people in three areas: health, security and participation. This paper focuses on a specific type of participation: associations. Its objective is to explore the possible self-selection effects of this type of participation, using global subjective quality of life indicators (satisfaction with life) and domain-specific indicators (satisfaction with leisure, community social integration and emotional resources). For this, a structural equation modelling analysis was conducted, taking into account bi-directional relationships between the variables of interest. The data come from a conditions and quality of life survey conducted in 2008 among a sample of 1,106 individuals aged 60 or over, living in community-dwellings in Spain. The results illustrate a complex model of relationships in which associative participation is not statistically significantly associated with the satisfaction measures used. This highlights the importance of self-selection effects, and raises the issue of the effectiveness of associative participation as a tool to enhance older adults' life satisfaction. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150717200 A |
| Classmark | TMB: F:59: D:F:5HH: 76S |
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