Coping strategies as indicators of resilience in elderly subjects: a methodological study.

Coping strategies as components of resilience among the elderly serve three purposes: protection against threats to adaptation, recovery from the effects of adversity, and personal development. The present paper aims to investigate internal and external validity for a coping inventory. 415 elderly subjects (aged 65 and older) answered questions that measure coping, depression, self-rated health and satisfaction with life.

Factors associated with perceived quality of life in older adults: ELSI-Brazil.

Objective: To identify factors associated with perceived quality of life in a representative national sample of the population aged 50 or over.

Methods: Data from 7,651 participants of the baseline ELSI-Brazil (Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging), conducted between 2015 and 2016, were used. The perceived quality of life was measured by the CASP-19 scale - (CASP - control, autonomy, self-fulfillment and pleasure), considering the highest tertile as good quality of life.

[New semantic-cultural validation and psychometric study of the CASP-19 scale in adult and elderly Brazilians].

The study aimed to investigate psychometric indicators of validity in the new version of CASP-19 for Brazilians 55 years and older and to study relations between scores on the scale and sex, age, schooling, and conjugal status. A total of 368 participants enrolled in educational programs for the elderly answered the CASP-19 scale (control, autonomy, self-realization, and pleasure), translated from English by five specialists and tested in 19 women (α = 0.730).

Resilience in aging: literature review.

Psychological resilience is comprised of an adaptive functioning standard before the current and accumulated risks of life. Furthermore, it has a comprehensive range of psychological resources which are essential to overcome adversities, such as personal competences, self-beliefs and interpersonal control which interact with the social networks support. The objectives are to show the concepts of psychological resilience in elderly, relative to dominant theoretical models and the main data about psychological resilience in aging, found in an international and Brazilian review from 2007 to 2013.