Análise da capacidade de resiliência e de seus preditores em trabalhadores idosos de uma institutição de ensino superior do sul do Brasil

Abstract

Resilience, or ability to overcome adversity, has been associated with many facets of aging. The objective of this work was to identify the resilience in workers aged 60 years and over and establish its predictors. 175 people from this age group belonging to an educational institution of south Brazil were interviewed, and information about resilience has been collected, along with socio-demographic factors, occupational factors, health behavior and health-related quality of life. The resilience reached high levels for the instrument used and the with Chi-square and Fischer statistical tests on univariate analysis pointed to association with level of education, position held at work, vitality, mental health, social and emotional aspects. Logistic multinomial statistical analysis as well as multivariate analysis identified mental health and emotional aspects as the only determinant factors leading to a high resilience. Some categories of the population interviewed presented low frequency of level of education and the position held at work, therefore making it impossible to estimate their confidence interval. Vitality and social aspects, though significant, came up as confounding factors in the multivariate analysis. In this document, the resilience among elderly people was then determined by emotional factors and mental health.