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| Published: June 25, 2020
Quality of life and perceived social support as predictors of happiness in institutionalised and home residing senior citizens
MA Clinical Psychology, Amity University, Noida, India
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DIP: 18.01.145/20200802
DOI: 10.25215/0802.145
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The aim of this study is to investigate the quality of life and perceived social support as predictors of happiness in institutionalized and home residing senior citizens. The study conducted a cross sectional survey of 120 senior citizens aged 60 to 80 years, using WHO Quality of Life-BREF, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. The sample was taken from Chandigarh and Delhi, from September 2019- October 2019. A Student’s T test, Pearson Correlation and multiple regression analysis were performed to analyze results. This study shows a comparison in the level of quality of life, social support and happiness among institutionalized and home residing senior citizens.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, Walia, P.
Received: June 01, 2020; Revision Received: June 21, 2020; Accepted: June 25, 2020
Mrs. Pranavi Walia @ pranaviwaliaa@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.145/20200802
10.25215/0802.145
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 2, April- June, 2020