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| Examination of the association of age, disability and mood among Jewish older adults in Israel | | Author(s) | H Litwin |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 6, no 4, November 2002 |
| Pages | pp 397-401 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Age groups [elderly] ; Physical disabilities ; Mental health [elderly] ; Correlation ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Secondary analysis of data for 2,079 Jewish people aged 60+ from a 1997 survey by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) was used. Mental health, measured using a Hebrew version of the General Health Questionnaire short form (GHQ-12), was successively regressed on age, sociodemographic characteristics, functional disability and physical health status, and on the interaction of age and disability. A significant association between age and mood emerged when confounding variables were not controlled. This association remained, to a lesser degree, after sociodemographic variables were entered. The addition of disability and health variables reversed the direction of the association. Finally, the entry of the interaction term (age x disability) bolstered the net association of age and mood. The analysis underscored the interaction of age and disability as a major threat to mental health in current ageing cohorts. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021216236 A |
| Classmark | BB: BN: D: 49: 7H6 |
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