The Elderly Life Events, Coping Styles And Study On The Relationship Between Subjective Well - Being

Old age is the final stage of life, it is a very important period and relatively studied rarely. As the continuous progress of our society, the state has pay attention to the elderly, so it is necessary to know the quality of life of the elderly. Subjective well-being is an important indicator to measure the quality of life, study subjective well-being of old people enables, us to understand the quality of life of them. Meanwhile, Old age have some changes in physiology, psychic and society, these changes can became life events which affect old people, whether or can not deal with these life events, and how to deal with it can affect the subjective well-being. This study focused on the relationship among subjective well-being, life events and coping style. It will help us to grasp their whole mental healthy, find out the way to improve the elderly's subjective well-being and raise the general level of mental healthy,make sure that they can live a happy old age, and promote the work of active aging and healthy aging. The paper discuss the current situation of old people's subjective well being and the influence between subjective well-being and life events, coping style from theoretical review, questionnaires, personal interviews.There are 376 old people who have been investigated by fulfilling tables of MUNSH, coping style questionnaire and LES in this research,196 of them are males,180 are females. After investigation and analysis, this study concludes as follows:1.In demographic factors, the elderly in living conditions, average income, occupation, interest, participate in physical exercise have significant influence on subjective well-being, regression analysis shows that living conditions, average income, participate in physical exercise have the largest contribution to subjective well-being. But in overall, demographic factors is not very important to subjective well-being.2.The elderly without age differences on coping style, while gender, educational level, occupation have different variances in each factor of coping style.3. The related analysis results between coping style and subjective well-being show that the problem-solving, turn for help and subjective well-being were positively related, and self-reproach, fantasy, avoidance, rationalization and subjective well-being were negatively related. Coping style have relation to various dimensions of subjective well-being. problem- solving and turn for help have significant positive correlation with positive emotion and general positive experience; self-reproach and general positive experience have significant negative relation and significant positive relation with negative affect, general negative experience; fantasy and negative affect, general negative experience have significant positive correlation; retreat have significant negative relation with positive emotion, and general positive experience; rationalization and negative affect, general negative experience have significant positive correlation, have negative correlation with general positive experience.4. Regression analysis showed that problem-solving, rationalizing, LEU score, turn for help, self-reproach entered into the regression equation, they can explain most part of subjective well-being, and we can predict subjective well-being of older people.