Author(s): Nurdan ÃETIN, Rukuye AYLAZ, Maral KARGIN
The aging is a universal process to be observed in all living things and causing regression in all functions. The individuals may experience various problems biological, psychological and social dimensions together with the aging. The research is planned to consider the relationships between the self-efficacy levels and the depression in individuals older than 65 years. The sample of the research was 374 old individuals who were selected with the simple random sampling from the elder people to be registered in FHCs. The researchers used the socio-demographic question form to be formed through the literature review, Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and Self-efficacy Sufficiency Scale (SESS) to collect the data. When the socio-demographical features are compared with their self-efficacy and depression average scores; the difference between the SESS and GDS average points were found meaningful for the age, level of education, income level, marital status, living with whom, health status, perception of personal health and use of free times statistically (p<0.05). The negative correlation was found for the total SESS and GDS points of elder people (-0.491, p=0.000). Also, a positive correlation between the age and GDS (0.187, p=0.00), on the other hand, there was a negative correlation to be found between the age and SESS (-0.264, p=0.000) in the research. As a result, important evident was found indicating that the depression increases as the age is getting older, the self-efficacy decreases, and the negative correlation between the depression and self-efficacy for elder people, in the research.
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