Личностная мобильность как предиктор профессионального здоровья в позднем возрасте: результаты исследования и их использование при разработке обучающих программ

Abstract

Introduction. Pedagogical and psychological science and practice emphasize the importance of various modes of study for maintaining the health and psychological well-being of people in late age. Determining occupational health predictors makes it possible to predict adequate methods for including older people in the educational environment and develop effective learning technologies. The research purpose is to detail the relationship between occupational health in late age and personal mobility as its integral predictor. Materials and methods. The empirical study involved 355 residents of Yekaterinburg and the Sverdlovsk region (Russian Federation) aged 50 to 80. Three comparison groups were identified: non-working pensioners, working pensioners, a comparison group – working people of pre-retirement age. A complex of 15 psychodiagnostic methods was implemented, describing as follows: 1) personal mobility as an individual property, life strategy, readiness for mobile behavior; 2) the emotional, reflective, value-motivational, activity components of occupational health; 3) psychological well-being. The methods of descriptive and comparative statistics, the correlation, cluster, factorial, regression, dispersion analysis were used for data processing. Results. A three-component structure of occupational health at a late age and an eight-component structure of personal mobility are described (the share of explained dispersion of factor models is 0.42 and 0.51, respectively). The initial theoretical model of contingency between the occupational health of older people and personal mobility as its predictor was empirically verified and clarified: a list of mobility characteristics was determined that affects each of the three components of occupational health – the activity, emotional-reflexive components and psychological well-being (the coefficient of determination of regression models is 0.42, 0.29 and 0.28 respectively). Discussion and conclusions. The research results made it possible to recommend the principles for developing technologies for teaching to preserve occupational health: complexity and universality, reliance on the free choice of the content and modes of study by an older person. Methods that meet these principles were defined: the formation of personal mobility as an integral occupational health predictor, work with life experience, dynamic learning, the use of reflection as a development mechanism in late age. © 2022 LLC Ecological Help. All rights reserved.