著者

渡邉 弘 惠 明子 安村 明

出版者

熊本大学大学院社会文化科学教育部

雑誌

熊本大学社会文化研究 (ISSN:1348530X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, pp.185-194, 2021-03-24

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Subjective well-being is considered an important factor for older people to lead healthy and independent lives. Indeed, subjective well-being can be maintained even if physical function deteriorates owing to aging, a phenomenon that is called the aging paradox. However, the relation between cognitive function and subjective well-being has not been fully clarified. Therefore, we investigated this relation in 23 older people. Our results showed that subjective well-being increased with age. We conducted a partial correlation analysis using age as a control variable and found a negative correlation between subjective well-being and auditory verbal memory, and a positive correlation between subjective well-being and attention variability. The findings clarified that subjective well-being was maintained even if cognitive function declined. Thus, the aging paradox may also occur in the cognitive function of older people.