Abstract
The present study was designed to investigate the related factors to psychological well-being in old age. The data was obtained through questionnaire distributed to 1, 736 elderly people. The results were summarized as follows.
There were following four factors related to psychological well-being in the aged : 1) The physical and environmental factors such as living with spouse and/or grandchildren, and having good health and/or economical conditions, etc. 2) The factors of the subjective evaluation on actual life by elderly people themselves, such as satisfaction with family relationship, religion, and so on. 3) The factors before old age, such as vocation before retirement, and 4) The personality factors such as active needs.
The following points were suggested for achieving psychological well-being in old age. That is, it was necessary to improve the conditions related the four factors above, and support to carry out aged people's active needs.
