Abstract:
Active ageing is processes that lead older adults to have good quality of life that supporting older adults to have active ageing is very important for the current social situation. The objectives of this correlational research were to study the level of active ageing among community-dwelling older adults in Ubon Ratchathani and to study the relationship among the selected factors such as age, education, income, self-care agency, social support, spiritual well-being and the active ageing among community dwelling older adults in Ubon Ratchathani. The sample was 97 older adults in Ubon Ratchathani who were randomly selected by the multi-stage sampling. The research instruments include the interview form of self-care agency, social support, spiritual well-being and the active ageing scale with the reliability coefficient of .88, .95, .80, and .91 respectively. To analyze the data frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson productmoment correlation coefficient, and Spearman rank correlation coefficient were employed. The results of this research showed a high level of active ageing among the community dwelling older adults in Ubon Ratchthani ( X = 117.16, SD = 13.81). There was a positive relationship among income, self-care agency, social support and spiritual well-being were related to the active ageing at the .05 level of significance. (rs = .24, p= .018, rs = .53, p< .001, r = .56, p< .001, r = .25, p= .013 respectively). Age and educational were not related to the level of active ageing at the .05 level of significance. The results from this study suggested that suggested that there should be a promotion of the health personnel, nurse and the related associate networks in the awareness of the factors which are related to the level of active ageing such promotions are in terms of income, self care agency, social support and spiritual well-being that will enhance them to be the potential older adults or have higher level of active ageing.