Author(s): Nisha Raj, UV Kiran and Shikha Gautam

Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to evaluate Life satisfaction and Mental Health among ageing individuals. In the current investigation, a self-made socio-demographic questionnaire including variables such as age, gender, educational qualification, working status, marital status, area of living was included and to get insights about their present health condition we included variables such as living situation (i.e. if they reside alone or with others their family/caregiver), presence or absence of any disease and The degree of independence for doing day to day activities; to evaluate one's level of life contentment we used SWLS (Satisfaction With Life Scale by Denier et al., 1985 and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) by Goldberg and Williamson, 1988. We selected 120 elderly individuals living in the Lucknow city, including equal proportions of both the genders i.e. 60 males and 60 females. After conducting this study, we found that there is a bad correlation between contentment with life and General Mental Health with correlation value of (r = -0.452). Implying that when the Life satisfaction increases the psychological distress related to general mental health decreases. For healthy ageing the role of Life satisfaction And General Mental Health becomes very important. Therefore, we tried to investigate the same in the present study.