Age-related aspect of interrelations between life quality parameters and psychological peculiarities in a person with disabilities

Abstract

The article represents the findings obtained from the empirical study of the interrelations between the indices of personal traits, emotional state and life quality in the persons with disabilities suffering from extremities deformity and dysfunction. The exploration surveyed 318 people at the age of 18 to 66. The specific character of the interrelations between emotional states, personal traits and life quality depends on the age of a human-being. At the younger age (19 to 39) the situational anxiety is most intensively attributed to the life quality and individual psychological characteristics of a personality. At the age of 40 to 49 it is replaced by the trait anxiety, while later - from 50 to 59 years old - anxiety is changed by depression. SF-36 method's factors demonstrate the greatest quantity of interrelations between the emotional states and personal traits of the patients of 40 to 59 years old, especially as concerning depression.