Formation Mechanisms of Rural Summer Health Destination Loyalty: Exploration and Comparison of Low- and High-Aged Elderly Leisure Vacation Tourists.

Destination loyalty is a key indicator of the competitiveness of tourist destinations. Rural summer health leisure vacations for urban elderly (RSHLVUE) tourists span a wide range of ages. Destination operators need to understand the loyalty formation mechanisms of different aged tourists. RSHLVUE tourists were divided into a low-aged group (LA) and a high-aged group (HA) to examine and modify the hypothesis of the relationship between perceived value, tourist well-being, place attachment, and destination loyalty based on affect, behavior, and cognition (ABC) theory. The test results of the measurement model indicate that the HA showed stronger responses in terms of cost value, sense of meaning, and place dependency. The formation mechanism of destination loyalty for the LA is tourist well-being → perceived value → place attachment → destination loyalty, and for the HA is perceived value → tourist well-being → place attachment → destination loyalty. The findings deepen the understanding of destination loyalty among elderly leisure vacation tourists and can guide RSHLVUE destination managers to enhance destination competitiveness.

Aging and Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Therapeutic Opportunities and Challenges in the Older Group.

With aging, a portion of cells, including mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), become senescent, and these senescent cells accumulate and promote various age-related diseases. Therefore, the older age group has become a major population for MSC therapy, which is aimed at improving tissue regeneration and function of the aged body. However, the application of MSC therapy is often unsatisfying in the aged group. One reasonable conjecture for this correlation is that aging microenvironment reduces the number and function of MSCs. Cellular senescence also plays an important role in MSC function impairment. Thus, it is necessary to explore the relationship between senescence and MSCs for improving the application of MSCs in the elderly. Here, we present the influence of aging on MSCs and the characteristics and functional changes of senescent MSCs. Furthermore, current therapeutic strategies for improving MSC therapy in the elderly group are also discussed.

Feasibility and Effectiveness of Assessing Subhealth Using a Mobile Health Management App (MibyeongBogam) in Early Middle-Aged Koreans: Randomized Controlled Trial.

BACKGROUND: Mobile health (mHealth) is a major source of health management systems. Moreover, the demand for mHealth, which is in need of change due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is increasing worldwide. Accordingly, interest in health care in everyday life and the importance of mHealth are growing. OBJECTIVE: We developed the MibyeongBogam (MBBG) app that evaluates the user's subhealth status via a smartphone and provides a health management method based on that user's subhealth status for use in everyday life. Subhealth is defined as a state in which the capacity to recover to a healthy state is diminished, but without the presence of clinical disease. The objective of this study was to compare the awareness and status of subhealth after the use of the MBBG app between intervention and control groups, and to evaluate the app's practicality. METHODS: This study was a prospective, open-label, parallel group, randomized controlled trial. The study was conducted at two hospitals in Korea with 150 healthy people in their 30s and 40s, at a 1:1 allocation ratio. Participants visited the hospital three times as follows: preintervention, intermediate visit 6 weeks after the intervention, and final visit 12 weeks after the intervention. Key endpoints were measured at the first visit before the intervention and at 12 weeks after the intervention. The primary outcome was the awareness of subhealth, and the secondary outcomes were subhealth status, health-promoting behaviors, and motivation to engage in healthy behaviors. RESULTS: The primary outcome, subhealth awareness, tended to slightly increase for both groups after the uncompensated intervention, but there was no significant difference in the score between the two groups (intervention group: mean 23.69, SD 0.25 vs control group: mean 23.1, SD 0.25; P=.09). In the case of secondary outcomes, only some variables of the subhealth status showed significant differences between the two groups after the intervention, and the intervention group showed an improvement in the total scores of subhealth (P=.03), sleep disturbance (P=.02), depression (P=.003), anger (P=.01), and anxiety symptoms (P=.009) compared with the control group. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, the MBBG app showed potential for improving the health, especially with regard to sleep disturbance and depression, of individuals without particular health problems. However, the effects of the app on subhealth awareness and health-promoting behaviors were not clearly evaluated. Therefore, further studies to assess improvements in health after the use of personalized health management programs provided by the MBBG app are needed. The MBBG app may be useful for members of the general public, who are not diagnosed with a disease but are unable to lead an optimal daily life due to discomfort, to seek strategies that can improve their health. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinical Research Information Service KCT0003488; https://cris.nih.go.kr/cris/search/search_result_st01.jsp?seq=14379.

Explorando la inteligencia emocional percibida en tres franjas etarias: un estudio realizado en la argentina / Exploring perceived emotional intelligence in three age groups: a sudy realized in Argentina

La inteligencia emocional percibida consiste en un conjunto de habilidades de procesamiento emocional. Incluye la capacidad para percibir los propios estados emocionales – atencion emocional –, comprenderlos y expresarlos linguisticamente – claridad de sentimientos - y regularlos adaptativamente – reparación emocional. Este constructo se encuadra dentro del enfoque de la Psicología Positiva, ha sido asociado a la resiliencia y funciona como amortiguador de las respuestas de estres y como un factor protector contra el burnout. Este estudio explora y compara las características de la inteligencia emocional percibida en personas de tres grupos de edad: 1) 15 a 24; 2) 30 a 45 y 3) 60 a 75 años, mediante un diseno transversal, descriptivo-correlacional. Se realizó un muestreo no probabilistico-intencional de 252 sujetos de ambos sexos a los que se administró la Escala de Metaconocimiento sobre Estados Emocionales. Los resultados señalan que los participantes de 60 a 75 años presentan mayor capacidad de comprensión y expresión emocional que los de los grupos restantes, así como mayor capacidad de regular sus emociones que los del grupo de 15 a 24 años. Estos resultados apoyan los antecedentes que señalan que los adultos mayores presentan un perfil de mayor desarrollo de las habilidades de Inteligencia Emocional que las personas de menor edad. Esto implica que los adultos mayores tienen disponibles estos efectivos recursos emocionales para afrontar y adaptarse a los desafios de la vida cotidiana en la vejez.

Perceived emotional intelligence is a set of abilities of emotional processing. It includes the capacity to recognize the own emotional states – emotional attention –, the ability to understand and express them linguistically – clarity of feelings – and also the ability to adaptively regulate them – emotional repair. Developed within the Positive Psychology framework, it has been associated with resilience and works as a buffer for stress responses and also as a protective factor against the burnout. This study explores and compares the characteristics of perceived emotional intelligence in three age groups, 1) 15 to 24; 2) 30 to 45 and 3) 60 to 75, using a cross-sectional, descriptive-correlational design. A non-probability intentional sample of 252 subjects, both male and female – for whom the Scale of Metacognition about Emotional States was administered – was carried out. The results showed that subjects from 60 to 75 years have a greater capacity for understanding and emotional expression than the other groups, and greater ability to regulate their emotions than the 15 to 24 group. This findings support previous studies which point out that the elderly have a more developed profile of perceived emotional intelligence abilities than younger people. This implies that the elderly have effective emotional resources to cope and adapt to everyday challenges.

Explorando la inteligencia emocional percibida en tres franjas etarias: un estudio realizado en la argentina / Exploring perceived emotional intelligence in three age groups: a sudy realized in Argentina

La inteligencia emocional percibida consiste en un conjunto de habilidades de procesamiento emocional. Incluye la capacidad para percibir los propios estados emocionales – atencion emocional –, comprenderlos y expresarlos linguisticamente – claridad de sentimientos - y regularlos adaptativamente – reparación emocional. Este constructo se encuadra dentro del enfoque de la Psicología Positiva, ha sido asociado a la resiliencia y funciona como amortiguador de las respuestas de estres y como un factor protector contra el burnout. Este estudio explora y compara las características de la inteligencia emocional percibida en personas de tres grupos de edad: 1) 15 a 24; 2) 30 a 45 y 3) 60 a 75 años, mediante un diseno transversal, descriptivo-correlacional. Se realizó un muestreo no probabilistico-intencional de 252 sujetos de ambos sexos a los que se administró la Escala de Metaconocimiento sobre Estados Emocionales. Los resultados señalan que los participantes de 60 a 75 años presentan mayor capacidad de comprensión y expresión emocional que los de los grupos restantes, así como mayor capacidad de regular sus emociones que los del grupo de 15 a 24 años. Estos resultados apoyan los antecedentes que señalan que los adultos mayores presentan un perfil de mayor desarrollo de las habilidades de Inteligencia Emocional que las personas de menor edad. Esto implica que los adultos mayores tienen disponibles estos efectivos recursos emocionales para afrontar y adaptarse a los desafios de la vida cotidiana en la vejez.(AU)

Perceived emotional intelligence is a set of abilities of emotional processing. It includes the capacity to recognize the own emotional states – emotional attention –, the ability to understand and express them linguistically – clarity of feelings – and also the ability to adaptively regulate them – emotional repair. Developed within the Positive Psychology framework, it has been associated with resilience and works as a buffer for stress responses and also as a protective factor against the burnout. This study explores and compares the characteristics of perceived emotional intelligence in three age groups, 1) 15 to 24; 2) 30 to 45 and 3) 60 to 75, using a cross-sectional, descriptive-correlational design. A non-probability intentional sample of 252 subjects, both male and female – for whom the Scale of Metacognition about Emotional States was administered – was carried out. The results showed that subjects from 60 to 75 years have a greater capacity for understanding and emotional expression than the other groups, and greater ability to regulate their emotions than the 15 to 24 group. This findings support previous studies which point out that the elderly have a more developed profile of perceived emotional intelligence abilities than younger people. This implies that the elderly have effective emotional resources to cope and adapt to everyday challenges.(AU)

Correlation Between Muscle Amounts and Grasp Power in the Elderly People, Jejudo / 한국역학회지

OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to examine the relationships between muscle mass and hand strength in elderly people. METHODS: The study subjects were 659 volunteers aged older than 65 in Jejudo, south Korea. The anthropometric information such as weight, body mass index (BMI) and muscular mass was collected by the body composition analyzer. The hand strength was obtained by the digital grip dynamometer. The fasting blood sugar index called as potential diabetes mellitus (DM) was defined as the condition over 120 mg/dL of the blood sugar. The BMI was classified into under 23, 23-25 and over 25 to analyze the relationships of BMI and muscle mass, hand strength. RESULTS: The factors affecting muscle mass were sex (p<0.001), age (p<0.001) and BMI (p<0.001). The factors affecting hand strength were sex (p<0.001), age (p<0.001) and BMI (p=0.003). And there was a weak association between muscle mass and hand strength after controlling with the affected factors (r2=0.15, p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The hand strength is weekly correlated with the muscle mass. So we recommend to use digital grip dynamometer combining with other measurements for diagnosis the sarcopenia in epidemiologic study.