Abstract

The aim of the present study id to assess Role of Emotional Regulation and Life Satisfaction for Mental Health and Well-being among ageing individuals. For the present study 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. whether they are living alone or with their family/caregiver), presence or absence of any disease and the level of independence for doing day to day activities; to assess the emotion regulation we used ERQ(Emotion regulation questionnaire) by Gross and John (2003), 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 residing in two different localities of 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 negative relationship between ERQ and LS with correlation coefficients’ negative sign (-0.273), there is very weak positive correlation between ERQ and GHQ with correlation coefficient of 0.112, and there is a strong negative correlation between LS AND GHQ with the negative sign of the correlation coefficient (-0.452).