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The trajectory of self-esteem and its predictive factors in later life
— the role of health | | Author(s) | Sang Kyoung Kahng, Ruth Dunkle, Hae-Sook Jeon |
| Journal title | Hallym International Journal of Aging, vol 7, no 1, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 15-38 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Self esteem ; Health [elderly] ; Chronic illness ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A reliable self-esteem strategy can be obtained by examining the average of within-person changes in self-esteem, rather than by simply examining the correlations between age and self-esteem or by comparing means of of self-esteem between two different age groups. This study examines the trajectory of self-esteem (SE) and its predictive. socio-demographic and health variables, with specific focus on chronic health conditions (CHC) and functional health (FH). Participants (aged 65+) were from the Americans' Changing Lives (ACL) longitudinal study: 1179 at Wave 1 in 1986, 878 at Wave 2 in 1989, and 683 at Wave 3 in 1993. Multilevel modelling analyses indicate that participants showed decreasing SE. The old-old, Blacks, and those with lower education presented a faster decrease in SE than their other counterparts. Individuals with fewer CHC or better FH presented better SE at wave 1. Individuals who experienced increasing CHC of decreasing FH presented decreasing FH over time. The findings imply that health is influential to SE in later life, and that interventions targeting health would be helpful for older people in maintaining their SE. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-070514222 A |
| Classmark | DPA: CC: CI: C4: CA: 3J: 7T |
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