the relationship of psychological hardness to life satisfaction and depression focusing on the elderly and elderly residents in care homes in Jordan

This study identifies the relationship of psychological hardness to life satisfaction and depression focusing on the elderly and elderly residents in care homes in Jordan among a sample of 140 of the Elderly (67 of whom are elderly and 73 of the older women). To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers use measure of hardness psychological, and the measure of life satisfaction, and a measure of depression in the elderly after the confirmation of the validity and reliability of these measurements. The study uses averages and standard deviations, and correlation coefficients Pearson, and the use of statistical (t). The results show that the level of hardness and psychological level of satisfaction with life among older men and women is low, and that the level of depression in older men and women is high, the existence of a positive relationship between the level of hardness and psychological life satisfaction, and the presence of statistically significant differences between older men and women and for the benefit of the elderly on a scale of psychological hardness.