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| The role of gender in very old age: profiles of functioning and everyday life patterns | | Author(s) | Jacqui Smith, Margret M Baltes |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 4, December 1998 |
| Pages | pp 676-695 |
| Keywords | Personality ; Well being ; Personal relationships ; Health [elderly] ; Older men ; Older women ; Germany. |
| Annotation | Older men and women have different life contexts as a function of differential longevity and socio-structural opportunities over the life course. The question is whether gender-related differences also occur in psychological and everyday functioning in older adults. A total of 258 men and 258 women between the ages of 70 and 103 years, participants in the Berlin Aging Study, were examined. Significant gender differences were observed in 13 of 28 aspects of personality, social relationships, everyday activity patterns, and reported well-being. Cluster analysis identified 11 subgroups whose profiles of life conditions and health and psychological functioning could be categorised as more or less desirable (functional). The relative risk of a less desirable profile was 1.6 times higher for women than for men. For older adults, gender as a variable carries differences in physical frailty and life conditions that likely have consequences for psychological functioning. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990218413 A |
| Classmark | DK: D:F:5HH: DS: CC: BC: BD: 767 |
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