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| Sex and age cohort differences in patterns of socioemotional functioning in older adults and their links to physical resilience | | Author(s) | Nathan S Consedine, Carol Magai, Yulia S Krivoshekova |
| Journal title | Ageing International, vol 30, no 3, Summer 2005 |
| Pages | pp 209-244 |
| Source | http://www.transactionpub.com |
| Keywords | Mental health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Physical capacity ; Young elderly ; Over 70s ; Older men ; Older women ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Although the ageing process brings with it some common challenges to older men and women, there has been little attention to gender differences in patterns of socioemotional functioning in their links to adaptive outcome. The authors examined patterns of socioemotional functioning among 67 "younger" (age 65-73) and 126 "older" (age 74-86) men and women in Brooklyn, New York. They applied cluster analysis to 11 measures of socioemotional functioning, with 10 different patterns emerging. As expected, men and women from the two age group were not equally distributed across the patterns. Older men more frequently manifested patterns of adaptation characterised by inhibited emotion but, together with younger men, were less likely to be represented in patterns characterised by stress-buffering friend support networks. The patterns also showed predictable links to a measure of physical resilience, which was predicted by participant sex, and both sex and age interacted with cluster membership in predicting resilience. Taken together, these data underscore the complexity of adaptation to later life in men and women and highlight the possibility that the existence of particular patterns in later life adaptation may have differing late life consequences for older men and women. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070115201 A |
| Classmark | D: F: BI: BBA: BBK: BC: BD: 48: 7T |
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