並列タイトル等The characteristics of gerotranscendence in frail oldest-old individuals who maintain a high level of psychological well-being : A preliminary study using the new gerotranscendence questionnaire for Japanese elderly
一般注記本研究の目的は，日本人高齢者に適した老年的超越質間紙を開発し，心理的well-beingが高い虚弱超高齢者の老年的超越の特徴を検討することであった．10人の高齢者へのインタビューから質問紙を作成し，在宅高齢者500人（男性198人，女性302人）に実施した．因子分析の結果，「ありがたさ」「おかげ」の認識，内向性，二元論からの脱却，宗教的もしくはスピリチュアルな態度，社会的自己からの解放，基本的で生得的な肯定感，利他性，無為自然と命名された8因子を抽出した．次に，在宅超高齢者149人（男性51人，女性98人）をクラスター分析により高機能高well－being（以下，WB）群，低機能高WB群，低機能低WB群に分類し，質問紙の下位尺度得点を比較した．低機能高WB群は低機能低WB群より内向性，社会的自己からの解放，無為自然の得点が高く，宗教的もしくはスピリチュアルな態度の得点が低かった．これらの結果から老年的超越の一部の下位因子は心理的well-beingの高さと関連し，その低下を緩衝する可能性が示唆された．
The purpose of this study was to develop a new questionnaire to investigate gerotranscendence in Japanese elderly individuals aged 65 yr and over, and to clarify the characteristics of gerotranscendence in physically frail but emotionally adapted oldest-old aged 85 yr and over．We developed the new questionnaire on the basis of interviews with 10 elderly individuals, and employed the questionnaire on 500 community-dwelling elderly（men 198, women 302）．Factor analysis of the questionnaire suggested an eight-factor solution that included “Awareness of arigatasa and okage”, which is a concept in Japanese culture that all people and living creatures are inter-dependent, “lntroversion”, ‘Transcendence from dualism”, “Religious／Spiritual attitude”, “Release from the social self”, “Basic and innate affirmation”, “Altruism”, and “Let it go”． Using cluster analysis, we classified the 149 community-dwelling oldest old （men 51, women 98） into three groups： a group with high function and high well-being （HF-HWB）, a group with low function and high well-being（LF-HWB）, and a group with low function and low well-being（LF-LWB）． “lntroversion”, “Release from the social self”, and “Let it go” in the LF-HWB group were significantly higher than those in the LF-LWB group, and the score for “Religious／Spiritual attitude” was significantly lower in the former than in the latter． These results suggest that some gerotranscendence factors are important for maintenance of psychological well-being in the frail oldest-old．
学位取得時氏名：中山幸恵首都大学東京, 2013-09-30, 博士（学術）, 乙第86号
関連情報http://hdl.handle.net/10748/7488
副論文「日本版老年的超越質問紙改訂版の妥当性および信頼性の検討」『老年社会科学』Vol.35No.1(2013)p.49-59は別途登録(http://hdl.handle.net/10748/7488)
連携機関・データベース国立情報学研究所 : 学術機関リポジトリデータベース（IRDB）（機関リポジトリ）