Personality, aging self-perceptions, and subjective health: A mediation model

International Journal of Aging and Human Development

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 241-257

  Moor, Caroline ^a   Zimprich, Daniel ^a   Schmitt, Marina ^b   Kliegel, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON AGEING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; SELF CONCEPT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 34547133293     PISSN: 00914150     EISSN: 15413535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/AKRY-UM4K-PB1V-PBHF     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182.
2. Benyamini, Y., & Idler, E. L. (1999). Community studies reporting association between self-rated health and mortality. Research on Aging, 21, 392-401.
3. Borkenau, P., & Ostendorf, F. (1993). NEO-fünf-faktoren- inventar nach Costa und McCrae. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
4. Borg, V., & Kristiensen, T. S. (2000). Social Class and self-rated health: Can the gradient be explained by differences in life style or work environment? Social Science&Medicine, 51, 1019-1030.
5. Bultena, G. L., & Powers, E. A. (1978). Denial of aging: Age identification and reference group orientations. Journal of Gerontology, 33, 748-754.
6. Cairney, J. (2000). Socio-economic status and self-rated health among older Canadians. Canadian Journal on Aging, 19, 456-478.
7. Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1987). Neuroticism, somatic complaints, and disease: Is the bark worse than the bite? Journal of Personality, 55, 299-316.
8. Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1992). Revised NEO Personality Inventory and NEO Five-Factor Inventory: Professional manual. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
9. Duberstein, P. R., Sörensen, S., Lyness, J. M., King, D. A., Conwell, Y., Seidlitz, L., & Caine, E. D. (2003). Personality is associated with perceived health and functional status in older primary care patients. Psychology and Aging, 18, 25-37.
10. Fayers, P. M., & Sprangers, M. A. G. (2002). Understanding self-rated health. The Lancet, 359, 187-188.
11. Ferraro, K. F., Farmer, M. M., & Wybraniec, J. A. (1997). Health trajectories: Long-term dynamics among black and white adults. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 38, 38-54.
12. Fischer, K., Specht-Leible, N., Oster, P., & Martin, M. (2000). Medikamentengebrauch als Gesundheitsindikator im mittleren und höheren Erwachsenenalter [Drug use as an indicator of health in middle and higher adulthood]. In P. Martin, K. U. Ettrich, U. Lehr, D. Roether, & M. Martin (Eds.), Aspekte der Entwicklung im mittleren und höheren Lebensalter [Aspects of development in middle and higher adulthood] (pp. 235-246). Darmstadt: Steinkopff.
13. Gold, C. H., Malmberg, B., McClearn, G. E., Pedersen, N. L., & Berg, S. (2002). Gender and health: A study of older unlike-sex twins. Journal of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, 57B, S168-S176.
14. Goodwin, R., & Engstrom, G. (2002). Personality and the perception of health in the general population. Psychological Medicine, 32, 325-332.
15. Harris, L. A., & Dollinger, S. (2001). Participation in a course on aging: Knowledge, attitudes, and anxiety about aging in oneself and others. Educational Gerontology, 27, 657-667.
16. Harris, L. A., & Dollinger, S. (2003). Individual differences in personality traits and anxiety about aging. Personality and Individual Differences, 34, 187-194.
17. Idler, E. L. (1993). Age differences in self assessments of health: Age changes, cohort differences, or survivorship? Journal of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, 48, S289-S300.
18. Idler, E. L., & Benyamini, Y. (1997). Self-rated health and mortality: A review of twenty-seven community studies. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 38, 21-37.
19. Idler, E. L., & Kasl, S. V. (1995). Self-ratings of health: Do they also predict change in functional ability? Journal of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, 50B, S344-S353.
20. Jenkinson, C. (1995). Evaluating the efficacy of medical treatment: Possibilities and limitations. Social Science & Medicine, 41, 1395-1401.
21. Johnson, R. J., & Wolinsky, F. D. (1993). The structure of health status among older adults: Disease, disability, functional limitation, and perceived health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 43, 105-121.
22. Katz, R. S. (1990). Interdisciplinary gerontology education: Impact on multidimensional attitudes toward aging. Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 10, 91-100.
23. Kempen, G. I., Jelicic, M., & Ormel, J. (1997). Personality, chronic medical morbidity, and health-related quality of life among older persons. Health Psychology, 16, 539-546.
24. Korotkov, D., & Hannah, T. E. (2004). The five-factor model of personality: Strengths and limitations in predicting health status, sick-role and illness behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 187-199.
25. Kressin, N. R., Spiro, A. III, & Skinner, K. M. (2000). Negative affectivity and health related quality of life. Medical Care, 38, 858-867.
26. Larsen, R. J. (1992). Neuroticism and selective encoding and recall of symptoms: Evidence from a combined concurrent-retrospective study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 480-488.
27. Lasher, K., & Faulkender, P. J. (1993). Measurement of aging anxiety: Development of the Anxiety about Aging Scale. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 11, 319-333.
28. Lawton, M. P. (1975). The Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale: A revision. Journal of Gerontology, 30, 85-89.
29. Leinonen, R., Heikkinen, E., & Jylha, M. (1998). Self-rated health and self-assessed change in health in elderly men and women - a five-year longitudinal study. Social Science and Medicine, 46, 591-597.
30. Levy, B. R. (1996). Improving memory in old age by implicit self-stereotyping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 1092-1107.
31. Levy, B. R. (2003). Mind matters: Cognitive and physical effects of aging self-stereotypes. Journal of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, 58B, P203-P211.
32. Levy, B. R., Hausdorff, J., Hencke, R., & Wei, J. Y. (2000). Reducing cardiovascular stress with positive self-stereotypes of aging. Journal of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, 55B, P205-213.
33. Levy, B. R., & Meyers, L. (2003). Views of aging as a predictor of health behaviors in older individuals. Paper presented at the 56th meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in San Diego, CA.
34. Levy, B. R., Slade, M., & Kasl, S. (2002). Longitudinal benefit of positive self-perceptions of aging on functioning health. Journal of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, 57B, P409-P417.
35. Macintyre, S., Hunt, K., & Sweeting, H. (1996). Gender differences in health: Are things really as simple as they seem? Social Science & Medicine, 42, 617-624.
36. Marshall, G. N., Wortman, C. B., Vickers, R. R., Kusulas, J. W., & Hervig, L. K. (1994). The five-factor model of personality as a framework for personality-health research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 278-286.
37. Martin, M., Grünendahl, M., & Martin, P. (2001) Age differences in Stress, social resources, and well-being in middle and older age. Journal of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, 56B, P214-P222.
38. McCrae, R. R. (1996). Social consequences of experiential openness. Psychological Bulletin, 120, 323-337.
39. McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T. (1990). Personality in adulthood. New York: Guilford Press.
40. Menec, V. H., & Chipperfield, J. G. (2001). A prospective analysis of the relation between self-rated health and health care use among elderly Canadians. Canadian Journal on Aging, 20, 293-306.
41. Moller, L., Kristensen, T.-S., & Hollnagel, H. (1996). Self rated health as a predictor of coronary heart disease in Copenhagen, Denmark. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 50, 423-428.
42. Mulrow, C.D., Gerety, M. B., Cornell, J. E., Lawrence, V. A., & Kanten, D. N. (1994). The relationship between disease and function and perceived health in very frail elders. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 42, 374-380.
43. Mutran, E., & Ferraro, K. F. (1988). Medical need and use of services among older men and women. Journal of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, 43, S162-S171.
44. Osterlind, P. O., Lofgren, A. C., Sandman, P. O., Steen, B., & Winblad, B. (1986). Health, disorders, and drug consumption in an elderly population in northern Sweden. Gerontology, 32, 52-59.
45. Pinquart, M. (2001). Correlates of subjective health in older adults: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 16, 414-426.
46. Preacher, K. J., & Leonardelli, G. J. (2003). Calculation for the Sobel test: An interactive calculation tool for mediation tests [On-line]. Available April 15, 2005: http://www.unc.edu/~preacher/sobel/sobel.htm.
47. Quinn, M. E., Johnson, M. A., Poon, L. W., & Martin, P. (1999). Psychosocial correlates of subjective health in sexagenarians, octogenarians, and centenarians. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 20, 151-171.
48. Rennemark, M., & Hagberg, B. (1999). Gender specific associations between social network and health behavior in old age. Aging & Mental Health, 3, 320-327.
49. Rodin, J., & McAvay, G. (1992). Determinants of change in perceived health in a longitudinal study of older adults. Journal of Gerontology, 47, 373-384.
50. Schroll, M., Ferry, M., Lund-Larsen, K., & Enzi, G. (1991). Assessment of health: Self-perceived health, chronic disease, use of medicine. Euronut SENECA investigators. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 45, 169-82.
51. Smith, T. W., & Williams, P. G. (1992). Personality and health: Advantages and limitations of the five-factor model. Journal of Personality, 60, 395-423.
52. Verbrugge, L. M. (1985). Gender and health: An update on hypotheses and evidence. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 26, 156-182.
53. Wigdor, B. T. (1995). Public awareness of aging: Its impact. In C. Hummel & C. Lalive d'Epinay (Eds.), Images of aging in western societies (pp. 101-119). Geneva: Centre for Interdisciplinary Gerontology.
54. Zung, W. W. (1965). A self-rating depression scale. Archives of General Psychiatry, 12, 63-70.
55. Zung, W. W. (1973). From art to science: The diagnosis and treatment of depression. Archives of General Psychiatry, 29, 328-337.
56. Zung, W. W. (1986). Self-Rating Depression Scale. In Collegium Internationale Psychiatrie (Eds.), Internationale Skalen für Psychiatrie. Göttingen: Beltz-Test.