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Socioeconomic status and age identity
— the role of dimensions of health in the subjective construction of age | | Author(s) | Anne E Barrett |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 2, March 2003 |
| Pages | pp S101-109 |
| Keywords | Economic status [elderly] ; Ageing process ; Attitude ; Adjustment ; Health [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Health inequality is examined as a potential explanation for socioeconomic differences in age identity. The following dimensions of health are used: self-rated health; self-assessed changes in physiological well-being; prospective self-rated health; perceived control over health; chronic conditions; and parents' health. Components of health are also explored as mediators of age differences in the effect of socioeconomic status on age identity. Using the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, ordinary least squares regression models of age identity are estimated for a representative sample of the non-institutionalised US population aged 25-74 (n=2,864). The older identities held by the less socioeconomically advantaged are explained by their worse health, particularly their less favourable predictions of future health, compared with their wealthier peers. Differences in age identity by level of education and perceived financial well-being are greater among older people; however, health only partially accounts for these age patterns. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030416013 A |
| Classmark | F:W: BG: DP: DR: CC: 7T |
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