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Health and Subjective Well-Being in Later Adulthood: Different Health States - Different Needs
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Schuez, BEC and Wurm, S and Warner, LM and Tesch-Romer, C, Health and Subjective Well-Being in Later Adulthood: Different Health States - Different Needs, Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 1, (1) pp. 23-45. ISSN 1758-0846 (2009) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1758-0854.2009.01004.x
Abstract
From midlife on, health problems become more prevalent. Health is one of the
key determinants of subjective well-being (SWB), but examining the relation
between health and SWB in later adulthood is complicated by the clustering
of multiple illnesses. This article proposes Latent Class Analysis (LCA) for a
parsimonious description of adult health. This article compares SWB in health
classes and examines the relative importance of socioeconomic resources, pain
and coping (flexible goal adjustment) for SWB. Data stem from a nation-wide
representative sample of adults aged 40–85 (German Ageing Survey, DEAS;
N = 3,084). LCA was used to examine different configurations of health. Multiple
regression analyses in latent classes were conducted to examine predictors
of SWB. LCA generated four distinct classes of health conditions: No disease
(n = 807), cardiovascular diseases (n = 405), joint problems (n = 1,612) and multiple
illnesses (n = 258). As expected, only small mean differences in SWB indicators
were found, whereas discontinuous predictors of SWB were detected:
Coping was more strongly associated with SWB in individuals with higher
illness burden. LCA can be applied to describe health in later adulthood.
Differential prediction patterns suggest distinct factors for SWB depending on
individual health status.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | adult health, developmental psychology, Germany, health psychology, |
Research Division: | Psychology |
Research Group: | Clinical and health psychology |
Research Field: | Health psychology |
Objective Division: | Health |
Objective Group: | Specific population health (excl. Indigenous health) |
Objective Field: | Health related to ageing |
UTAS Author: | Schuez, BEC (Dr Benjamin Schuez) |
ID Code: | 75063 |
Year Published: | 2009 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 18 |
Deposited By: | Psychology |
Deposited On: | 2012-01-06 |
Last Modified: | 2014-12-18 |
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