Ardahan and Mart (2013) studied how outdoor activities are related to aging. They found that women who participate in outdoor activities, have a high monthly income, are married, employed, and will have greater life satisfaction. Those who are men, single, elderly, without outdoor activities have lower life satisfaction. Although many of these outdoor activities require a younger age, those who participated in outdoor activities had greater life satisfaction (p. 900). Some gaps and weaknesses in the literature were found when researching this topic. One gap found concerned the daily habits of those who had greater life satisfaction. Studies often did not include the daily living activities of these individuals, which could suggest health habits that could contribute to longevity. A weakness of some research was the subjectivity of the data collected. Many of these studies simply sent out surveys and had little interaction with study participants. There was no way to measure the accuracy of the surveys sent to the
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