AUTHOR=Díaz-García Orlanda , Herranz Aguayo Inmaculada , Fernández de Castro Patricia , Ramos José Luis Gómez 

TITLE=Lifestyles of Spanish elders from supervened SARS-CoV-2 variant onwards: A correlational research on life satisfaction and social-relational praxes

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=13

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.948745

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.948745

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Objective</title><p>This study aimed to analyze the influence and measurement of the relationship and interaction between the elderly lifestyles after the appearance of the SARS-CoV-2 variant and the factors analyzed comprised life satisfaction levels, social relationships, and daily-life activities.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>The study population was ≥ 65 in Castile-La Mancha (<italic>N</italic> = 390,221). The research design was quantitative and arose from primary data collected via an ad hoc survey carried out through the Computer Assisted Telephone Interview system by randomly stratified sampling. The sample size was made up of 1,065 cases, and the participants were selected through a random sampling stratified by gender quotas (55.40% women; 44.60% men), age (<inline-formula><mml:math id="M1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mover accent="false" class="mml-overline"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>x</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mo accent="true">¯</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mn>76</mml:mn><mml:mo>.</mml:mo><mml:mn>56</mml:mn></mml:math></inline-formula>), province, and habitat size.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>The results obtained revealed two main lifestyles, from which a notable behavioral change in personal relationships led to infer toward alternative lifestyles.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Notwithstanding the variation in lifestyles of the elderly after the pandemic, certain relationships remained unaltered. Thus, from the analyzed variables, relatives and friends relationships were scarcely influenced by the supervened incident.</p></sec>