Psychological Coping Capacity; Interpersonal Wellbeing Adaptation Trajectories Older Adult South Asian Cohort Comparative Analysis

Abstract

Psychological coping capacity in later adulthood is increasingly understood as a multidimensional construct influenced by environmental adaptation systems, socio-technical infrastructures, and physiological resilience mechanisms. This study examines interpersonal wellbeing adaptation trajectories among older adult cohorts in the South Asian region through a comparative analytical framework that integrates psychological adaptation theory with system-level modeling approaches derived from computational and engineering domains. The research positions coping capacity not only as an intrapsychic construct but also as a dynamically evolving system shaped by external stressors, digital infrastructures, and networked resource environments.

Drawing upon theoretical foundations from emotion regulation and adaptation literature (Smith & Lazarus; Frijda; Ellsworth & Scherer), the study conceptualizes coping trajectories as adaptive feedback loops similar to workload balancing and fault-tolerant mechanisms observed in engineered systems (Ren et al.; Zhang et al.; Gupta & Dinesh). The comparative framework enables cross-domain interpretation of psychological resilience using computational analogies such as predictive modeling, system stability, and distributed optimization.

The findings synthesized from literature indicate that older adult coping trajectories are significantly shaped by resilience factors including psychosocial adjustment capacity, environmental predictability, and adaptive appraisal processes. The integration of socio-technical perspectives highlights that wellbeing is not isolated within cognitive domains but is continuously influenced by systemic interactions between community structures, health monitoring systems, and digital adaptation environments (Cano et al.; Peng et al.; Agarwal et al., 2023).

This study further identifies that variability in interpersonal wellbeing outcomes across South Asian older adult populations is strongly associated with stress adaptation mechanisms, hedonic recalibration processes, and social connectivity structures. The inclusion of computational system models provides a novel interpretative lens for understanding variability in coping effectiveness across heterogeneous populations.

Overall, the research contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship by bridging psychological coping theory with system-level computational analogies, offering a structured model for analyzing adaptation trajectories in aging populations. The study emphasizes that resilience in older adulthood is a distributed, evolving process influenced by both internal emotional regulation systems and external socio-digital infrastructures (Agarwal et al., 2023).