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Volume 24, Issue 146 (4-2025)
Journal of Psychological Science 2025, 24(146): 11-25 |
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Azizi M, Afrooz G A. (2025). Comparison of lifestyle and spiritual vitality among elderly people over 80 with Alzheimer's disease and those without Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Psychological Science. 24(146), 11-25.
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Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran , Afrooz@ut.ac.ir
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ئBackground: Adulthood, especially old age, is one of the most important and sensitive periods of every person, lifestyle and spiritual vitality can play a role as components affecting physical and psychological well-being in this age period
Aims: The aim of the present study was to compare the lifestyle and spiritual vitality in the elderly over 80 years old with and without Alzheimer's
Methods: In terms of practical purpose, the present study is retrospective in terms of time and in terms of the method of data collection, it belongs to a causal-comparative design that was collected in the field. The statistical population consisted of all the elderly, and among them, a sample of 80 elderly people was considered. The measuring tools of the research are the lifestyle assessment and measurement questionnaire, the spiritual vitality questionnaire that was distributed among the people. In order to analyze the data in this research, according to the questions and hypotheses, descriptive statistics and univariate variance analysis were used at the inferential level
Results: There was a statistically significant difference between the group with Alzheimer's disorder and people without Alzheimer's disorder in the combined dependent variables of lifestyle . the findings showed that there is a difference between people with Alzheimer's disorder and those without Alzheimer's disorder in the variable of spiritual vitality.
Conclusion: According to the findings of the research, lifestyle and its components and spiritual vitality have a positive effect on the prevention of Alzheimer's disease in the elderly and can reduce Alzheimer's disease in old age. Expanding skill training and improving lifestyle and promoting spiritual vitality especially in the youth and childhood years and improving it day by day in the country can be a good counter plan to prevent Alzheimer's in the elderly population.
Aims: The aim of the present study was to compare the lifestyle and spiritual vitality in the elderly over 80 years old with and without Alzheimer's
Methods: In terms of practical purpose, the present study is retrospective in terms of time and in terms of the method of data collection, it belongs to a causal-comparative design that was collected in the field. The statistical population consisted of all the elderly, and among them, a sample of 80 elderly people was considered. The measuring tools of the research are the lifestyle assessment and measurement questionnaire, the spiritual vitality questionnaire that was distributed among the people. In order to analyze the data in this research, according to the questions and hypotheses, descriptive statistics and univariate variance analysis were used at the inferential level
Results: There was a statistically significant difference between the group with Alzheimer's disorder and people without Alzheimer's disorder in the combined dependent variables of lifestyle . the findings showed that there is a difference between people with Alzheimer's disorder and those without Alzheimer's disorder in the variable of spiritual vitality.
Conclusion: According to the findings of the research, lifestyle and its components and spiritual vitality have a positive effect on the prevention of Alzheimer's disease in the elderly and can reduce Alzheimer's disease in old age. Expanding skill training and improving lifestyle and promoting spiritual vitality especially in the youth and childhood years and improving it day by day in the country can be a good counter plan to prevent Alzheimer's in the elderly population.
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Received: 2024/11/1 | Accepted: 2025/01/4 | Published: 2025/02/3
Received: 2024/11/1 | Accepted: 2025/01/4 | Published: 2025/02/3
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