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| Age, physical impairment, and symptoms of anxiety: a test of mediating and moderating factors | | Author(s) | Scott Schieman |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 49, no 1, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 43-59 |
| Keywords | Anxiety ; Physical disabilities ; Older people ; Adults ; Young adults [20-25] ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The processes linking physical impairment with symptoms of anxiety were examined in this study. Analyses were based on a representative sample of 967 physically disabled adults (ages 20 to 90) in Canada. Several hypotheses tested the intervening role of disability characteristics, perceived health care efficacy, personal attributes, and social stratification resources. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analyses included sets of those intervening variables entered sequentially. Adjustment produced a significant reduction in the association between symptoms of anxiety and impairment, confirming the intervening role of health care efficacy and mastery. Moreover, impairment and mastery had synergistic effects such that higher mastery buffered against the anxiety associated with higher impairment. Other findings raise important questions about age, impairment, and the sense of mastery in the contest of health care and gender. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000419409 A |
| Classmark | ENP: BN: B: SD: SD6: 7S |
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