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The impact of salient role stress on trajectories of health in late life among survivors of a seven-year panel study
— analyses of individual growth curves | | Author(s) | Benjamin A Shaw, Neal Krause |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 55, no 2, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 97-116 |
| Keywords | Stress ; Health [elderly] ; Social roles ; Mathematical models ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The idea that the oldest-old may be particularly vulnerable to the effects of stress is examined in this study, which models changes in older people's health over time and the degree to which stress arising in salient social role accounts for individual variation in these changes. Individual growth curve analyses using Hierarchical Linear Modelling (MLM) software were used with longitudinal data collected from a US nationwide sample of 465 older people between 1992 and 1999. The data suggest that throughout the course of the study, the sample as a whole experienced linear deterioration in self-rated health. After accounting for the effects of non-salient role stress and demographic characteristics, variance in health change was not accounted for significantly by salient role stress in an additive model. However, the inclusion of a multiplicative term showed that as respondent age increased, the association between salient role stress and adverse changes in health strengthened significantly. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030226204 A |
| Classmark | QNH: CC: TM5: 3LM: 3J: 7T |
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