Abstract:

There are factors such as social, mental, psychological, spiritual, physiological, health and activity that affect successful aging. The purpose of this study is to examine how the spiritual well-being and meaning of life levels of individuals in the transition to advanced adulthood predict their successful aging levels, and to determine the relationship between successful aging and personal characteristics such as gender, age, marital status, education status, lifestyle, monthly income level, and health status of the last month of individuals in the transition to advanced adulthood. Between 2018-2019, 192 individuals who resided in Istanbul, voluntarily participated in this research. The data of the study were collected with "Successful Aging Scale", "Spiritual Well-Being Scale", "Meaning of Life Scale" and "Personal Information Form". The data were collected in March-May 2019. In analyzing the data, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Independent Groups T Test, One Way ANOVA, Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test and Multiple Regression analysis were used. At the end of the study, it was found that the successful aging levels of individuals aged 50 and over did not differ significantly according to the monthly income variable, but a significant difference was found according to many variables such as gender, age, marital status, education status and lifestyle. As a result of the Multiple Regression analysis, it was seen that the variables of spiritual well-being and meaning of life positively and moderately predicted successful aging.

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