title: Psychosocial factors for influencing healthy aging in adults in Korea.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Healthy aging includes physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being in later years. The purpose of this study is to identify the psychosocial factors influencing healthy aging and examining their socio-demographic characteristics. Perceived health status, depression, self-esteem, self-achievement, ego-integrity, participation in leisure activities, and loneliness were identified as influential factors in healthy aging.
  
  
  METHODS
  171 Korean adults aged between 45 and 77 years-old participated in the study. Self-reporting questionnaires were used, followed by descriptive statistics and multiple regressions as inferential statistical analyses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were significant differences between participants' general characteristics: age, education, religion, housing, hobby, and economic status. The factors related to healthy aging had positive correlation with perceived health status, self-esteem, self-achievements, and leisure activities, and negative correlation with depression and loneliness. The factors influencing healthy aging were depression, leisure activities, perceived health status, ego integrity, and self-achievements. These factors were able to explain 51.9%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  According to the results, depression is the factor with the greatest influence on healthy aging. Perceived health status, ego integrity, self-achievement, self-esteem, participation of leisure activities were also influential on healthy aging as beneficial factors.
authors: Behavioral Science Research Center, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, 136-701, 1, 5-ka, Anam-dong, Sungbuk-ku, Seoul, South Korea. franzhkh@yahoo.com.
authors: KyungHun
authors: K
authors: Han
authors: College of Nursing, Seoul Women's College of Nursing, 38 Ganhodae-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea. yjlee@snjc.ac.kr.
authors: YunJung
authors: Y
authors: Lee
authors: College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University Seoul, Korea, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, 130-701, Seoul, South Korea. ninestar.gu@daum.net.
authors: JaSung
authors: J
authors: Gu
authors: College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University Seoul, Korea, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, 130-701, Seoul, South Korea. rhohee@hanmail.net.
authors: Hee
authors: H
authors: Oh
authors: College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University Seoul, Korea, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, 130-701, Seoul, South Korea. mam96@hanmail.net.
authors: JongHee
authors: J
authors: Han
authors: College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University Seoul, Korea, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, 130-701, Seoul, South Korea. kuikim@khu.ac.kr.
authors: KwuyBun
authors: K
authors: Kim
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D003863:Depression / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life; D056910:Republic of Korea; D012649:Self Concept; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires