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Self and health
— factors that encourage self-esteem and functional health | | Author(s) | Donald C Reitzes, Elizabeth J Mutran |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 1, January 2006 |
| Pages | pp S44-S51 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Self esteem ; Health [elderly] ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Employment of older people ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data collected in 1992 and 1994 as part of the Carolina Health and Transitions Study (CHATS), an ongoing study of transitions to retirement of 400 men and 400 women aged 58-64, were used to find out whether functional health enhances self-esteem, and whether self-esteem, worker, parent and friend identities are related to changes in functional health. To find out about their functional health, respondents were asked about difficulties in performing seven activities. The authors used Rosenberg's self-esteem scale; and identities were measured with 10 adjective pairs related to being competent, confident and sociable as a worker, parent and friend. Better functional health was found to be associated with greater self-esteem over 2 years, and self-esteem was positively related to functional health. In addition, worker identity and some social background factors are associated with positive changes in self-esteem. The findings suggest that good health may contribute to positive self-assessments, but also the less well-studied expectation that self processes are associated with positive changes in health. Individuals may be motivated by their desire to affirm a sense of self-worth and positive identities to maintain and improve their physical health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060314237 A |
| Classmark | DPA: CC: CA: C4: GC: 3J: 7T |
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