Percepción del bienestar subjetivo, actitudes negativas y positivas hacia el propio envejecimiento

Eloy Maya-Pérez; Jonathan Alejandro  Galindo-Soto; Paola López-Cervantes; Dionisio Ramírez-Pérez

doi:10.19136/hs.a21n3.4689

Authors

Eloy Maya-Pérez University of Guanajuato http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6195-5917
Jonathan Alejandro Galindo-Soto University of Guanajuato https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6351-8681
Paola López-Cervantes University of Guanajuato https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1611-1314
Dionisio Ramírez-Pérez University of Guanajuato https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1650-3406

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19136/hs.a21n3.4689

Abstract

Objective: Analyze the perception of subjective well-being and negative and positive attitudes towards aging itself of older people in the municipality of Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Material and Methods: This research is quantitative in nature, with a descriptive-transactional design. 167 older people participated, 104 women and 63 men over 60 years old, residents of the municipality of Celaya, Guanajuato. The participants reported not having cognitive impairment and were able to answer the items on the scales themselves. The following scales were used: PANAS questionnaire for positive and negative affect, Diener's life satisfaction and GDS for abbreviated depression.

Results: The study suggests a positive trend in relation to subjective well-being and negative and positive attitudes towards aging, in general the participants recognized experiencing positive affect in relation to their experiences, their family relationships, as a couple, their life experience, with the environment. It is important to highlight that the correlation between the positive and negative affectivity scales Pearson's r value is 0.71, which indicates a direct correlation with an r² of 1.

Conclusion: Based on the data provided by the study, it is stated that the perception of well-being about aging itself is identified through negative and positive attitudes. The latter being more significant because the participants recognize them as key elements to achieve a better adaptation to the circumstances of their own lives.

Keywords: Affection, Aging, Mental health

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Author Biographies

Eloy Maya-Pérez, University of Guanajuato

Graduate in Psychology from FES-Iztacala UNAM, Master in Educational Sciences, Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo UAEH/Westfälische Wilhems-Universitát Münster, Germany and Doctor of Sciences in Collective Health, Metropolitan Autonomous University-Xochimilco unit UAM-X.

He is part of the consolidated academic body “Care and attention to aging and health”. He is a member of the National System of SNI Researchers level 1; PRODEP professor with a desirable profile. Knowledge generation and application line (LGAC) registered in CONACyT:

Human aging
Emotionality, corporality and subjectivity.

He participates as a member of the International Council of reviewers and referees of various national and international indexed scientific journals such as the Sophia Magazine Collection of Philosophy of Education (SCOPUS), the VERITAS ET SCIENTIA – UPT Magazine (Latindex), the Horizonte Sanitaria Magazine UAJT (CONACYT), the PSICUMEX Magazine (CONACYT and REDIB), the Papeles de lación Magazine (SCOPUS JCR) and the Social Work Magazine of the National University of Colombia (Latindex).

He collaborates in various scientific editorial committees, among them he participates as a member of the UG Institutional Editorial Commission, substitute of the Editorial Committee of the Celaya-Salvatierra Campus and member of the Editorial Council of the Celaya-Salvatierra Campus, UG and of the Scientific Magazine SOCIETAS of the University from Panama, international publication indexed in Google Scholar, Latindex, MIAR, Amelica and other international indexes.

He is the author of more than 30 scientific articles published in magazines with CONACyT recognition and indexed nationally and internationally with topics on social and community psychology, aging and quality of life, studies on phenomenology and subjectivity.

Psychotherapist with existential phenomenological approach.

He is currently taking a specialty course in Existential Dialogue, Existential Therapy Circle
Jonathan Alejandro Galindo-Soto, University of Guanajuato

Graduate and Doctorate in Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has almost 100 presentations at specialized events and 50 academic event organizations. He has directed or participated in several investigations with PRODEP funding and has collaborated as a member in others. He has nearly 40 scientific publications to his credit, on History, Teaching and Psychology of Science, as well as on aging processes and psychopedagogical issues and Clinical Psychology.

He served as Operational Coordinator of the Investigation Committee at the Military School of Nursing and clinical psychologist at the Secretariat of Public Security of the Federal District, where he was awarded for commendable professional career. He was also Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Guanajuato Celaya Salvatierra Campus. In 2017, he collaborated with the Government of Spain for the INSEMRSO dissemination blog on Alzheimer's with a proposal for art therapy. In 2018 he was awarded by the Guanajuato Secretary of Education for his research on the emotional needs of hospitalized older adults.

He has been an external evaluator by invitation for PRODEP, as well as for technical-pedagogical opinions of various educational programs at a higher level, research projects at a higher level and for the states of Guanajuato and Tabasco, both by universities and by the Ministry of Health. He supervised multiple Theses at the Bachelor's level in Nursing and Psychology, Specialty in Nursing, Master's Degree in Teaching and Doctorate in Nursing.

He is currently a reviewer for the indexed journals Gerontology & geriatric medicine, Clinical Nursing Research (JCR, Scopus); Health Horizon, Psicumex (Conacyt); Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP (Scielo) among others.

He is responsible for the project called “Center for Psychological Care CAP-UG”, attached to the Celaya – Salvatierra Campus, which has been institutionally recognized for its contribution to the goals of the Institutional Development Plan, in multidisciplinary projects that integrate the substantive functions that generate a high social impact of the Results-Based Budget (PBR), as well as for the Indicator of Linkage Projects with the social and government productive sectors that generate an impact on society, for their work in providing free psychotherapeutic care to the open population in Celaya and its surroundings.
Paola López-Cervantes, University of Guanajuato

University of GuanajuatoIn 2015 I started my degree at the University of Guanajuato on the Celaya-Salvatierra campus. During my training I had the opportunity to do professional internships in various institutions such as the CONALEP Celaya campus, CAISES in which I carried out screenings on violence, talks, channeling , among other activities, later in the Migrant House located in the Santa Teresita community, providing support when necessary to migrants, talks to the population, as well as psychological care to the population in general, the last place where I carried out internships was at CAP, an institution that provides psychological care to the general population supervised by Doctor Jonathan Galindo, I also had the opportunity to learn about community work by carrying out a project with several colleagues on violence in a neighborhood of the city, in 2021 it was published the work carried out in a book titled “Research experiences from community social psychology (in different regions of Mexico and contributions from Colombia and Costa Rica), I also took a course in Thanatology, at the end of the degree in 2019 I carried out my professional service in PAIS which is a program created to provide interdisciplinary care to the general public and UG students. In this service I held workshops, talks, health fairs and first-class care. In 2020, with the pandemic, the activities were modified. I participated alongside two colleagues in giving talks and group work in “Special Olympics” which was aimed at people with disabilities and their families.

Upon completing the degree, I began to write my thesis to obtain the title of Bachelor of Clinical Psychologist together with my colleague Dionisio Ramírez Pérez together with the advice of Doctor Eloy Maya Pérez and which was approved in 2021.
Dionisio Ramírez-Pérez, University of Guanajuato

Graduate in Clinical Psychology with a cognitive behavioral approach from the University of Guanajuato, with a specialty diploma in thanatology from the El Otro Lado A.C. Institute for the Development of the Humanities. and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Comprehensive Social Gerontology at the Juárez Autonomous University of Tabasco.