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Older adults' coping with negative life events
— common processes of managing health, interpersonal and financial/work stressors | | Author(s) | Rudolf H Moos, Penny L Brennan, Kathleen K Schutte |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 62, no 1, 2006 |
| Pages | pp 39-60 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Stress ; Adjustment ; Health [elderly] ; Personal relationships ; Economic status [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 1,884 Americans living the community and aged 55-65 at baseline were recruited to this study. They were contacted 1 year, 4 years and 10 years after, when they identified the most severe negative event they had faced in the last year, and described how they appraised and coped with the event, their ambient chronic stressors, and event and functioning outcomes. The stress and coping process was largely consistent across the three life domains. Individuals who appraised events as challenging and relied more on approach coping were more likely to report some benefit from those events. Individuals who experienced more chronic stressors and favoured avoidance coping were more likely to be depressed and to have late-life drinking problems. Chronic stressors, as well as approach and avoidance coping, were predictably associated with overall outcomes in all three event domains. These findings provide a basis for preventive interventions that may help older people to deal with the most prevalent stressors of ageing more effectively. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060202207 A |
| Classmark | QNH: DR: CC: DS: F:W: 3J: 7T |
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