Background: Healthy aging includes physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being in later years. The\npurpose of this study is to identify the psychosocial factors influencing healthy aging and examining their\nsocio-demographic characteristics. Perceived health status, depression, self-esteem, self-achievement, ego-integrity,\nparticipation in leisure activities, and loneliness were identified as influential factors in healthy aging.\nMethods: 171 Korean adults aged between 45 and 77 years-old participated in the study. Self-reporting questionnaires\nwere used, followed by descriptive statistics and multiple regressions as inferential statistical analyses.\nResults: There were significant differences between participants� general characteristics: age, education, religion,\nhousing, hobby, and economic status. The factors related to healthy aging had positive correlation with perceived\nhealth status, self-esteem, self-achievements, and leisure activities, and negative correlation with depression and\nloneliness. The factors influencing healthy aging were depression, leisure activities, perceived health status, ego\nintegrity, and self-achievements. These factors were able to explain 51.9%.\nConclusions: According to the results, depression is the factor with the greatest influence on healthy aging. Perceived\nhealth status, ego integrity, self-achievement, self-esteem, participation of leisure activities were also influential on\nhealthy aging as beneficial factors.
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