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Sociocultural status, psychosocial factors, and cognitive functional limitation in elderly Mexican Americans
— findings from the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging | | Author(s) | Helen P Hazuda, Robert C Wood, Michael J Lichtenstein |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 30, nos 1/2, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 99-122 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Mexico ; Living in the community ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Mental health [elderly] ; Cognitive impairment ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using the Disablement Process model as a framework, the authors examined the association of psychosocial factors outside the main disease-disability pathway with cognitive function in a community-dwelling cohort of Mexican American (MA) older people. They also examined the association between the group's sociocultural status (socio-economic status and assimilation) relative to both cognitive function and potentially related psychosocial factors. Results indicate that MA elders with low educational levels and or/low levels of assimilation are not only at increased risk of cognitive functional limitation, but have lower levels of psychosocial resources that may help prevent or slow down cognitive functional limitation. They also appear to have higher levels of psychosocial burdens that may trigger or accelerate cognitive functional limitations. Results obtained with the hierarchical models indicate that both education and greater functional integration in the broader society have not only large direct effects on cognitive functional limitation, but also indirect effects that operate through the pathways of psychosocial resources (i.e. mastery and health control) and secondarily, psychosocial burden (depression). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990311233 A |
| Classmark | TK: 7TY: K4: F: D: E4: 49: 3J: 7T |
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