Abstract
The present study was planned to assess and compare the
general well-being of institutionalized and non-institutionalized
elderly. A battery of general well-being measures was created* The
battery included Hindi versions of Beck Depression Scale (Mathur,
1981), Goldberg Health Questionnaire-12 (Mohal, 1991), self-
esteem Inventory (Thomas & Raj, 1984), and Life Satisfaction Scale
(Mohal, 1991). A Dis&essed Sleep Checklist was especially created
for the present study. It was administered to 371 elderly (171
institutionalized, and 200 non-institutionalized; 200 women and 171
men) aged above 60 years. Global score of well-being was obtained
by adding reciprocals of scores on depression, GHQ-12, and
distressed sleep to the sum of scores on self-esteem inventory and
life satisfaction scale. Two- way ANOVA was applied to analyze the
results for global score as well as for separate scores on each
measure. Findings revealed that men scored higher on general well-
being as compared to women. The institutionalized aged did not
differ from the non-institutionalized on global scores, however, they
had less depression and self-esteem than the non-institutionalized.
Radhey Shyam, Sudesh Yadev. (2006) Indices of Well-being of Older Adults: A Study Amongst Institutionalized and Non-institutionalized Elderly, Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research, Volume-21, Issue-3-4.
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