| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between loneliness, resilience and
psychological wellbeing among the elderly in Uganda and to assess whether resilience moderates
loneliness with psychological wellbeing. Three hundred participants were selected using simple
random sampling techniques. A correlation research design was used. To determine the
relationship between loneliness, resilience and psychological wellbeing, a Stastical Package for
Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to compute the Pearson Product Moment Correlation
Coefficient. Model 1 of PROCESS macro was used to determine the moderation effect of
resilience on loneliness and psychological wellbeing. Activity, disengagement and psychosocial
theories of aging were used. Findings revealed a positive significant relationship between
resilience and psychological wellbeing (r = .49, p< .01). However, loneliness was negatively but
significantly related to both resilience (r =.-56, p < .01) and psychological wellbeing (r =.-35, p <
.01). For moderation analysis results revealed that Loneliness had a negative significant effect
on the psychological wellbeing of the elderly (B = -10, t = -3.03), whereas the moderating
variable (resilience had a positive significant effect on psychological wellbeing of the elderly (B
= .19, t = 4.94). The moderation analysis also revealed significant interaction effects of
loneliness and resilience on psychological wellbeing (B = .10, t = -2.05, p = .041). Analysis of
the conditional or moderation effcts that revealed loneliness had non significant effects on
psychological wellbeing at low levels of resilience (B= -05, t = -12.29, p = .199). The effects of
loneliness were significant ataverage (B = -.10 t = -3.03, p = .003) and high levels of resilience
(B = -.15, t = - 3.23, p = .001). Conclusively psychological wellbeing would greatly improve
when loneliness decreased and resilience increased among the elderly persons. It was
recommended that in Uganda, the psychological wellbeing of the elderly be developed by
reducing their loneliness | en_US |
