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Life pressures and their relationship to psychosomatic and psychological disorders in employed and unemployed elderly people (Clinical psychometric study) | ضغوط الحياة وعلاقتها ب

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The present study aimed to: Identify the relationship between life stress and psychosomatical and psychological disorders in working and non-working elderly people. It also aims to find out the differences between the highs of psychosomatic and psychological disorders between working and non-working elderly people in their perception of life pressures, and the current study sample consisted of (100) retired individuals for work, half of whom are working elderly and unemployed elderly, whose ages range between (60-75) years. , The researcher used the following tools in the current study, a special data form (the researcher's preparation), the measure of life stress for the elderly (the researcher's preparation), the measure of psychosomatic disorders (prepared by Kamal Al-Banna 1987) and the list of pathological symptoms (prepared by Abdul Raqeeb Al-Beheiri 1992). The study concluded: There is no correlation relationship Statistical function between psychosomatic disorders and the following dimensions of life stress: leisure pressures, status and importance pressures, family pressures, health and psychological pressures, and the total degree of life stress, while a positive correlation was found between economic life and economic pressures among the elderly working, there is no significant correlation A statistic between the change of the following psychological symptoms: physical symptoms, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Reactive sensitivity,   depression, anxiety, hostility,  and virtual paranoia, While a positive correlation was found between the change in economic  life pressures and between fear and psychosis among the working elderly, and it was  found that there are no statistically significant differences between the average scores of the working elderly sample  and the non-working elderly on the stress scale, as well as there are no statistically significant differences between the average scores of the sample.  The working elderly (n = 80) and the average scores of the sample of the elderly who are not working with their families (n = 70) on the entire list of psychological symptoms and their total score.

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10.21608/niles.2018.146798

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life Stress, psychosomatic and psychological disorders, the elderly

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Ahmed

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Abdel-Gawad

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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Onaizah Colleges - Saudi Arabia

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8590

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2018-06-01

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2017-01-18

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2018-06-01

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294

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338

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2636-3224

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2636-3232

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NILES journal for Geriatric and Gerontology

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Life pressures and their relationship to psychosomatic and psychological disorders in employed and unemployed elderly people (Clinical psychometric study) | ضغوط الحياة وعلاقتها بالاضطرابات السيکوسوماتيه والنفسية لدى المسنين العاملين وغير العاملين ( دراسة سيکومترية إکلينيکية)

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22 Jan 2023