Psychological predictors of mortality in old age
H. Maier
Bok Engelsk 1999
| Utgitt | 1999
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| Omfang | Side P44- P54
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| Opplysninger | Con regression models examined associations between 17 indicators ofpsychological functioning (intellectual abilities, personality,subjective well-being, and social relations) and mortality The sample(N = 514 age range 70-103 years) comprised participants in the BerlinAging Study assessed between 1990 and 1993, By 1996 50% had died.Eleven indicators were identified as mortality risk factors at thezero-order level and six when age was controlled. Low perceptualspeed and dissatisfaction with aging were uniquely significant aftercontrols for age, SES, health, and the 16 other psychologicalfactors. Low intellectual functioning was a greater risk forindividuals aged 70-84 years than for the oldest old (over 85 years).The effects of psychological risk factors did not diminish over time.Future research should focus on the mechanisms and time frames thatunderlie the death-relatedness of intellectual functioning and self-evaluation.
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