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Hearing capability as an indicator of life satisfaction among elderly

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Dhyuti Sachdev (SPM College, University of Delhi, Delhi)

Old people are the backbone of our society whose satisfaction with life at this phase appears to be the prime concern of psychologists. Keeping these notions, the present study is an attempt to explore the role of hearing potential towards satisfaction with life among geriatrics. A multigroup design was used. A purposive sample of 300 elderly, both male and female, aged 60 years and onwards, divided in to five groups (60 each) with various levels of hearing impairment was drawn from various private ENT clinics and residence from Delhi, India. Audiometer was used to assess their level of hearing impairment and standardized tool was used to measure their level of satisfaction with life. Descriptive statistics and one way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post hoc tests were computed. Results indicated that mild hearing loss has no adverse effect on life satisfaction of elderly, whereas adverse effect was visible from moderate level of impaired hearing which increased with the increase in the level of hearing loss, thereby indicating the importance of hearing in elderly’s life.

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Dhyuti Sachdev (SPM College, University of Delhi, Delhi)