老年人追寻人生意义会促进成功老龄化吗?

Will Older People’s Searching for Meaning Promote Successful Aging?

意义作为人们高幸福感与高生活满意度的关键因素与成功老龄化的关系研究受到关注。成功老龄化是指老年人在晚年生活中达到生理、心理的最佳状态,体验老年生活的幸福具有较高的生活满意度。意义可分为意义拥有和意义寻求两个维度,在老年阶段意义拥有水平越高,成功老龄化的可能性越大,体现了与积极心理品质的正向联系。而意义寻求则不同,晚年阶段激烈地寻求意义和老年人走向整合的阶段任务不相适应,在此阶段寻求意义反映了老年生活意义的缺失且寻求意义的行为通常带来抑郁、焦虑、暴躁等消极反应,这与成功老龄化的目标背道而驰,并不会促进成功老龄化。

As a key factor of people’s high happiness and high life satisfaction, the relationship between meaning and successful aging has attracted much attention. Successful aging means that the el-derly achieve the best physiological and psychological status in their later years of life, and expe-rience the happiness of old age have a higher life satisfaction. Meaning of life can be divided into two dimensions: Presence of meaning and Search for meaning. The higher level of presence of meaning in the aged stage, the greater the probability of successful aging, which reflects a positive correlation with positive psychological quality. The search for meaning is different. In the later years, the violent pursuit of meaning and the stage of the elderly’s integration are not compatible. At this stage, the search for meaning reflects the lack of meaning of old age and the behavior of searching for meaning usually brings depression, anxiety, irritability, which run counter to the goal of successful aging, do not promote successful aging.