SOCIAL NEEDS

Social Needs for Subjective Well Being

Social Needs for Subjective Well Being

Introduction

This paper analyzes the article, which social needs are important for subjective well-being? What happens to them with aging? Writen by Nardi Steverink and Siegwart Lindenberg. In recent years, there has been particular interest, shown by researchers, issues related to the elderly people. This interest is mainly due to increased life expectancy of the population in developed countries, which requires a concern for quality of life of these people. This situation is a reflection of socioeconomic improvements, recorded in recent times, and raises specific knowledge needs of the group of the older population for various purposes of research for well being of elderly people.

There is the worldwide interest in their living conditions and needs of this group, research related to subjective well-being of the elderly and specific variables that influence it. No doubt the figures that reflect the aging of the population will bring consequences and effects on different activities and sectors of society. Population aging leads to increased demand for services and amenities that are unique to the needs generated by the elderly, which are framed in diverse areas such as economy, housing and urban development, health, social participation and education.

Methods

In the article discussed in this report, social production function instrument measuring level of need satisfaction (SPF-IL) is used to analyze the three social needs that include affection, behavioral confirmation, and status. The two needs of physical well being were not included in the article, only three social needs are discussed, as described in SPF theory.

Results

It is shown by the results that, all three models of physical loss level are strongly associated with the three indicators of subjective well-being. Higher physical loss is linked life satisfaction. Moreover, for positive association an age effect is also concerned with the higher the age and lowers the level of positive affect. For the negative effect, a gender effect exists in those women, who have higher levels of negative affect as compare to men.

Discussion

Currently considered a major barrier between old age and a welfare state, which is a negative assessment of the elderly made by some members of Western societies, which decreases the opportunity to accept other important findings of modern gerontology, which highlight the increased variability in relation to the operation and adjustment in old age and the fact that most people would be placed in the normal range of this variability.

Self acceptance is the criterion used to define welfare, and is conceptualized as the central figure of mental health, as a characteristic of maturity, personal fulfillment and optimal performance. Positive relationships with others is another importance of warmth and trust in interpersonal relationships and the ability to love, are seen as a major component of mental health, being both a criterion of maturity. The ability to choose or create environments in line with their own physical condition is defined as a characteristic of mental health. It involves the ability to manipulate and control complex environments or with the ...