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Emotional vitality among disabled older women
— the Women's Health and Aging Study | | Author(s) | Brenda W J H Penninx, Jack M Guralnik, Eleanor M Simonsick |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 46, no 7, July 1998 |
| Pages | pp 807-815 |
| Keywords | Emotions ; Morale ; Older women ; Physical disabilities ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Emotional vitality is defined as having a high sense of personal mastery, being happy, and having low depressive symptomatology and anxiety. This study uses data from the Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS), a US study of the causes and course of disability among moderately to severely disabled, cognitively intact older women living in the community. Despite their physical disabilities, 35% of the 1002 disabled women in this study were emotionally vital. The percentage of emotionally vital women declined with increasing severity of disability. After adjustment for disability status, a significantly increased likelihood for being emotionally vital was found for: black race; having higher income; better cognition; no vision problems; adequate emotional support; and many face-to-face contacts. Having more than one negative life event reduced the likelihood of emotional vitality. A substantial proportion of even the most disabled women could be described as emotionally vital. Findings also suggest that emotional vitality is not solely a function of stable, enduring individual characteristics, but that health status, disability and sociodemographic context also have an influence on emotional vitality. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980819002 A |
| Classmark | DL: DQ: BD: BN: F: 3F: 7T |
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