PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL EFFECTS OF AGING
Keywords:
aging, anxiety, “empty nest†syndromeAbstract
In the current thesis we aim to analyze the psychosocial particularities of the elderly people, taking into consideration the dysfunctional psychological and social situations, specific to the aging period (the empty nest syndrome, situations of disease, the third age crisis) and the accomplishment of the social roles, as well. In the micro-research, we study the correlation between the scale of requesting the social support, as coping strategy and the quality of retirement people’s lives, as well as the correlation between the level of quality life of aged people and the level of their anxiety.Â
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