Seminar no. 1290
16 October 2024 Time 11:30 – 12:30 hrs.
Speaker: Rina Gustiana
The existing research has shown that the Covid-19 pandemic have adverse impact on subjective well-being of older people. Today, as the pandemic ended, the opportunity for older people to gain back their subjective well-being is widely open. However, for some people life after the pandemic would be difficult and their subjective well-being may not regain back to the level before the pandemic. From public policy perspective, this is important because we need to acknowledge how may subjective well-being of older adults change to be able to develop further interventions and the evaluation of how social support from the government contribute to the older adults’ subjective well-being is essential to ensure the policy was effective. However, studies evaluated changes and contribution of governments supports on subjective well-being of older adults are limited. This study examines the changes of subjective well-being of older people during and post the Covid-19 pandemic as well as evaluates the contribution of social support from the government on subjective well-being of older adults through resilience development during the pandemic. The results show that subjective well-being of older adults is improving as the pandemic status lifted. Overall, perceived social support predicts higher life satisfaction and positive experience. From its sub-dimension perspective, perceived social support from family and friends as well as being registered as support beneficiary from the government did not significantly associate with neither life satisfaction and positive experiences, but positively associated with negative experiences. Moderate level of perceived social support from friends and being registered as support beneficiary from the government are also associated with lower level of resilience. Finally, resilience significantly mediated the relationship between being registered as support beneficiary from the government on life satisfaction, the frequency of positive experiences and negative experiences. However, resilience does not mediate the relationship between perceived social support and subjective well-being of older adults. The results of this study suggests that Government interventions in order to improve the subjective well-being of older adults need to be revisited.
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