Department of Psychology, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, 388120, Gujarat, India.
Online published on 9 April, 2012.
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of institutionalized and non institutionalized of the aged on Psychological Well-being. The sample for the study of 180 Institutionalized and 180 non-institutionalized aged from Ahmadabad city. Personal data sheet, Rotter (1966) Locus of control Scale, Templer (1970) Death anxiety Scale and Bhogle and Prakash (1995), Psychological Well-being scale were used to collect the required data. Locus of control, Death anxiety, Residence, Sex, Age, Education, Marital Status, Social Network and Proportion of Activity were considered as Predictor variables and Psychological Well-being as dependent variables. Accordingly, Multiple regression was carried out to test the hypothesis. Results the predictor variables which were successful in predicting the psychological well-being of the institutionalized and non-institutionalized aged can be arranged in a hierarchy. First is the Locus of Control, followed by Proportion of Activity, Death Anxiety, Social Network, Marital Status and age in that order. The predictor variables which were not successful in predicting the psychological well-being is Residence, Sex and Education of the institutionalized and noninstitutionalized aged can be arranged in a hierarchy.
