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Sense of coherence and social support - Resources for subjective well-being and health of the aged in Finland
- Authors:
- ELOVAINIO M., KIVIMAKI M.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 9(2), April 2000, pp.128-135.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article examines whether the psychological and social resources of aged people (over 75 years) in Finland predict their subjective well-being and experienced state of health. Based on previous research on younger people we formed a model where morbidity, experienced quality of social support and sense of coherence together with economic resources are the predictors of both experienced state of health and subjective well-being. The model providing the most parsimonious explanation of the data suggested that a strong sense of coherence and high experienced quality of social relationships are strongly related to subjective well-being. Experienced state of health was associated with morbidity and subjective well-being, but there was no significant relationship between subjective well-being and morbidity.