The effect of life satisfaction, quality of life and esteem of self on the sense of loneli̇ness of the elderly WHO remain in the nursing home

This study was conducted in a cross-sectional, descriptive design and as a relation shipseeker. It wasaimed to determine the effect of life satisfaction, quality of life and self-esteem on the sense of loneliness of theelderly in the nursing home and to support the improvement of nursing home conditions and planning of health service swith there sultsob tained. The sample of this study was 130 elderly people livingin a nursing home. The data of the study were analyz edbyde scriptive statistical analysis, normal distribution tests (Shapiro-Wilk, Skewness and Kurtosisin), cronbach alpha, t/Mann Whitney U test, One-wayAnova/Kruskal Wallis test, Pearson Correlation test, factor analysis, line arregression analysis and structural analysis. Equation modeling wasused. Statistical significance in differences and relation shipswas accepted as p<0.05. The meanage of the elderly is 73.88±7.41, most of them; male (65.4%), not married (46.9%), had nochildren (73.1%), primary school graduate (40%), income (88.5%) and pension (46.2%), had chronic disease (75.4%) and was abletoactinde pendently (60%), stayed in the nursing home formean of 6.50±8.04 years and came voluntarily (63.5%), participated in social activities in the nursing home (60%), relative scomingto visit (59.2%), going out of the nursing home (58.5%) and making friend switho the rresidents (78.5%). The elderly in the study had moderate quality of life (21.30±7.88), high life satisfaction (7.80±1.87), positive self-schemes (69.44±11.72), and lonelines sscores at an accep table level (8.31±4.86), 20.8% of the mwerealone. It was determinedthat female gender caused an increase of 2.529 points in loneliness and a decrease of 4.192 points in tho sewithin come (p<0.05). Emotional loneliness scores of the bedridden elderly were foundto be significantly higher (p<0.05). It was determined that as the life quality scores of the elderly increased, the irsocial, emotionaland general scores of lonelines sdecreased (p<0.05). It was determined that as social class, attractive nessand general scores of social comparison were in creased, a positive self-scheme was formed, socialand general scores of lonelines sdecreased significantly, and as the satisfaction of the irliving space sincreased, the irsocial, emotionaland general of lonelines sdecreased (p<0.05). Keywords:Loneliness, Life satisfaction, quality of life, self-esteem.