The relationship between health promoting life styles and sleep quality with social adjustment and life expectancy among elderly

According the rising population of the elderly in the country and the vital importance of adjustment and life expectancy in them, The role of different variables in this field seems to be necessary. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between health promoting life styles and sleep quality with social adjustment and life expectancy among elderly. This study in term purpose was applied and in term implementation was descriptive style and canonical correlation type. The statistical population of this research was all the elderly care centers in Ahvaz city. Out of this community, 132 people were selected by simple random sampling. All the subjects completed Walker Health Promotion Life Style Questionnaire, Petersburg quality of sleep questionnaire, Pique and Samoun social adjustment inventory and Miller and Powers life expectancy questionnaire. For data analysis used canonical correlation. The findings of canonical correlation showed that between collection of predictors variables (health promoting life styles and sleep quality) and between collection of criterions variables (social adjustment and life expectancy) was meaningful canonical coefficient with 0/689. Also, in this study, the findings of structural coefficients showed that in collection of predictors variables, health promoting lifestyles life and in collection of criterions variables, life expectancy were best predictors in own collections. So, promoting in health promoting life styles and sleep quality enhancing social adjustment and life expectancy were statistically significant