From: Psychological and physical factors related to social integration of older adults in Ghana
Social integration | ||
---|---|---|
Covariates | High | χ2(p−value) |
% | ||
Background characteristics | ||
Sex | 26.166** | |
Male | 33.9 | |
Female | 45.4 | |
Age | 6.461* | |
60–69 years | 40.3 | |
70–79 years | 41.4 | |
80 years or older | 35.0 | |
Marital status | 58.632** | |
Never married | 32.8 | |
Married | 43.9 | |
Cohabiting/Separated/divorced | 47.1 | |
Widowed | 24.8 | |
Educational level | 60.472** | |
No formal education | 30.9 | |
Primary/JHS | 38.8 | |
Secondary/higher | 51.8 | |
Religion | 4.673 | |
Christianity | 39.7 | |
Islam | 39.0 | |
No religion/Indigenous | 31.2 | |
Ecological zones | 11.992** | |
Savannah | 31.6 | |
Forest | 41.1 | |
Coastal | 40.5 | |
Place of residence | 4.410* | |
Urban | 41.8 | |
Rural | 37.0 | |
Ethnicity | 32.704** | |
Akan | 36.9 | |
Ewe | 41.5 | |
Ga-Adangbe | 50.7 | |
Mande-Busanga | 31.6 | |
Others | 46.1 | |
Main occupation | 95.386** | |
Not working | 17.2 | |
Part-time | 47.0 | |
Full time | 42.1 | |
Income | 0.075 | |
Low | 39.4 | |
High | 38.7 | |
Perceived general health | 106.593** | |
Very bad | 13.1 | |
Moderate | 26.4 | |
Very good | 46.3 | |
Psycho-physical factors | ||
Emotional wellbeing | 97.231** | |
Low | 30.3 | |
High | 52.9 | |
Physical wellbeing | 181.690** | |
Low | 16.6 | |
High | 48.9 | |
Psychological wellbeing | 203.245** | |
Low | 24.4 | |
High | 56.1 | |
Spiritual wellbeing | 33.699** | |
Low | 35.7 | |
High | 51.8 |