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| Spouse-rated limitations and spouse-rated life expectancy as mortality predictors | | Author(s) | Carol van Doorn |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 3, May 1998 |
| Pages | pp S137-S143 |
| Keywords | Death ; Health [elderly] ; Attitude ; Married couples ; Husbands ; Wives ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Survival analyses were used to examine the predictive value of spouse-rated limitations due to health problems, and spouse-rated life expectancy for 3-year mortality in a community sample of older Australian married couples, net of health status indicators, health behaviours, and sociodemographic factors. Tests for gender differences in the effects and for empirical overlap with self-ratings of health and life expectancy were also conducted. Findings showed that both spouse-ratings were predictive of husbands' mortality, while for wives' mortality the parallel measures were not predictive in the adjusted model. Wives' ratings were not substitutes for other health indicators or for self-ratings of health and life expectancy. The independent effect suggests that wives were more astute reporters or judges of their husbands' mortality risk or that the wives' perceptions indicated tangible influences on husbands' health and mortality risk. Future analyses should be directed toward finding mechanisms linking spouse perceptions to health outcomes. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980813420 A |
| Classmark | CW: CC: DP: SM: SNA: SNW: 7YA |
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