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Activities and well-being in older age
— effects of self-concept and educational attainment | | Author(s) | A Regula Herzog, Melissa M Franks, Hazel R Markus |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 2, June 1998 |
| Pages | pp 179-185 |
| Keywords | Well being ; Activities of older people ; Recreation ; Attitude ; Self esteem ; Mathematical models ; Cross cultural surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors propose a theoretical model in which activities will enhance well-being through their effect on the agentic self (measured by the extent to which individuals consider themselves to be active, hard-working and competitive, in this instance). They expect that processes associated with productive and leisure activities are conditioned in important ways by social-structural characteristics - a reason for selecting educational attainment as an indicator. The hypothesised processes were estimated with LISREL (LInear Structural RELationships) VIII using data from a large cross-sectional survey with a sample of 679 adults aged 65 and over, representative of older people living in the Detroit area. Findings indicate that frequency of performing both leisure and productive activities yields an effect on physical health and depression, and that these effects are mediated in part by a sense of self as agentic, but less clearly by a sense of self as social. Formal educational attainment as an indicator of socio-economic status facilitates the effect of leisure to a greater extent than that of productive activities. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980812001 A |
| Classmark | D:F:5HH: G: H: DP: DPA: 3LM: 3KA: 7T |
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