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| Education, personal control, lifestyle and health | | Author(s) | John Mirowsky, Catherine E Ross |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 20, no 4, July 1998 |
| Pages | pp 415-449 |
| Keywords | Educational status [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Attitude ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The concept of human capital implies that education improves health because it increases effective agency. This article suggests that the positive effects of education extend beyond jobs and earnings. Through education, individuals gain the ability to be effective agents in their own lives. Education improves physical functioning and self-reported health because it enhances a sense of personal control that enables a healthy lifestyle. Three specific variants of the human-capital and learned-effectiveness hypothesis are tested: education enables people to coalesce health-producing behaviours into a coherent lifestyle; a sense of control over outcomes in one's own life encourages a healthy lifestyle and conveys much of education's effect; educated parents inspire a healthy lifestyle in their children. Using data from a 1995 national telephone probability sample of United States (US) households with 2,592 respondents aged between 18 and 95, a covariance model produced results consistent with the three hypotheses. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980721408 A |
| Classmark | F:V: CC: DP: 7T |
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