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| Physical hardiness and styles of socioemotional functioning in later life | | Author(s) | Carol Magai, Nathan S Consedine, Arlene R King |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 5, September 2003 |
| Pages | pp P269-P279 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Physical capacity ; Good Health ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Mental health [elderly] ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Personality ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Although the literature on ageing suggests that there are many paths to later life adjustment, there have been few empirical attempts to identify different patterns of adaptation, or their relation to adaptive outcome. This study uses a cluster analysis applied to 11 measures of socio-emotional functioning in a sample of 1,095 older people (aged 65-86), in order to identify patterns of socio-emotional functioning in later life associated with physical hardiness. Ten subgroups were extracted, with clusters of individuals being primarily defined by social network variables, religious characteristics, and emotion profiles. Groups were then compared on a measure of physical hardiness. Patterns of adaptation characterised by high levels of negative emotions tended to represent less hardy adaptation, although there were nonetheless some patterns of noteworthy exception. In contrast, patterns of adaptation characterised by religiosity were typically associated with greater hardiness. Finally, physical hardiness was not exclusively the province of individuals exhibiting close social networks, with some groups high in connectedness being less likely to report a high degree of hardiness. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040406218 A |
| Classmark | BI: CD: F: D: EX: DK: 49: 7T |
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