| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Self-efficacy beliefs as predictors of loneliness and psychological distress in older adults | | Author(s) | Prem S Fry, Dominique L Debats |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 55, no 3, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 233-270 |
| Keywords | Loneliness ; Stress ; Self esteem ; Social surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The hypothesis is tested that older people's self-efficacy beliefs are significantly stronger predictors of loneliness and psychological distress than are demographics, social support, and physical health variables used in earlier predictor models. A sample of 141 women and 101 men aged 65-86 reporting a wide range of health status from "poor" to "excellent" was drawn from the region of southern Alberta, Canada. Standard self-report measures were used to assess perceived self-efficacy to eight different domains. A series of hierarchical regression analyses conducted separately for men, women and the combined sample supported the hypothesis concerning the self-efficacy variables as predictors of loneliness and psychological distress. Gender-specific variations revealed women's stronger self-efficacy domains in the interpersonal, social and emotional realms, and men's stronger self-efficacy beliefs in the instrumental, financial and physical realms predicted less loneliness and psychological distress. Spiritual self-efficacy emerged as being the most potent predictor, accounting for the largest percentage of explained variance in loneliness and psychological distress in the women's and combined sample. There was an errata in the published tables of this research which was corrected in volume 56, number 2 pp 171-172. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030319212 A |
| Classmark | DV: QNH: DPA: 3F: 7S |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|