Psychological well-being of retirees with chronic diseases

2019 / 02 / 11 تاريخ القبول: 2018 / 02 / 24 تار

Abstract

Psychological wellbeing has a prominent place in different cultures, and everyone seeks to achieve it as a supreme goal of life, since it relates to the individual’s mood. (Sermini, 2014, Ennizi, 2017:189).In 2011, Psychological wellbeing has been defines, by the World Health Organization, as the cornerstone of mental health. In this context, the paper aims to study the level of psychological wellbeing using the Ryff 1989 standard six dimension on a sample of chronically ill retires, since the disease is common with age. Because of the fact that psychological wellbeing is closely related to health, health condition may affect its degree, and the disease may decrease its level, although some patients have not recorded a decline in the level of psychological wellbeing. The present study showed the high level of psychological wellbeing of the sample of the study, responding to the results of research that show a high level of psychological wellbeing compared to the Young.