| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Intraindividual variability in perceived control in an older sample
— the MacArthur successful aging studies | | Author(s) | Dara R Eizenman, John R Nesselroade, David L Featherman |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 3, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 489-502 |
| Keywords | Self esteem ; Competence ; Adjustment ; Residents [care homes] ; Retirement communities ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors report on two aspects of perceived control - locus of control (LOC) and perceived competence (COM). They concentrate on week-to-week within-person variability in self-reported LOC and COM, using data collected over a 7 month period from a sample of 57 residents in a retirement community in Pennsylvania. The authors demonstrate that the responses obtained are structurally consistent with dominant conceptions of perceived control, and that the responses maintain an underlying structure over time. They also show that the within-person variation over weekly measurements is coherent information rather than 'noise', and that individual differences in magnitude of week-to-week variability are a relatively stable attribute which may predict mortality status five years later. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120276 A |
| Classmark | DPA: DPB: DR: KX: ROA: 3J: 7T |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|