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Primary and secondary control-enhancing strategies
— implications for health in later life | | Author(s) | Judith G Chipperfield, Raymond P Perry, Verena H Menec |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 11, no 4, November 1999 |
| Pages | pp 517-539 |
| Keywords | Adjustment ; Health [elderly] ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Longitudinal surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | When faced with seemingly adverse conditions that threaten perceptions of control, people frequently use specific strategies to offset the threat. This article set out to assess the link between control-enhancing strategies and health in an older population, particularly the use of primary control strategies (involving modifying the environment) and compensatory secondary controlled strategies (modifying the self, e.g. expecting less of oneself). 241 participants from a longitudinal study by the Canadian Ageing Research Network (CARNET) were interviewed to assess their strategies and their health. Health (physical and perceived) was found to vary for those using primary and compensatory secondary control strategies; however, the nature of this variation depended on age. The findings may indicate that primary control strategies have positive health implications for the young-old, but these same strategies may be detrimental to health in later life. The findings could further suggest that compensatory secondary-control strategies become increasingly more adaptive in late life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000208220 A |
| Classmark | DR: CC: C4: CA: 3J: 7S |
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