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Positive affect and function as influences on self-assessments of health
— expanding our view beyond illness and disability | | Author(s) | Yael Benyamini, Ellen L Idler, Howard Leventhal |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 55B, no 2, March 2000 |
| Pages | pp P107-P116 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Self care capacity ; Attitude ; Residents [care homes] ; Retirement communities ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Longitudinal data from 851 residents of an American retirement community (mean age 73) were used to examine the correlates of self-assessment of health (SAH) and the predictors of change in SAH over several follow-up periods ranging from 1 to 5 years. The authors hypothesised that indicators of positive health - including feelings of energy and positive mood, social support, and active functioning - are as important in determining current and future SAH as negative factors such as disease history, disability, medication use and negative mood. Results of cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses showed that functional ability, medication use, and negative affect were salient to people judging their health, but positive indicators of activity and mood had an even stronger, independent effect. These findings show the importance of attending to the full illness-wellness continuum in studying people's perceptions of health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000825214 A |
| Classmark | CC: CA: DP: KX: ROA: 3J: 7T |
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