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Age variations in personal agency and self-esteem
— the context of physical disability | | Author(s) | Scott Schieman, Janice E Campbell |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 13, no 2, May 2001 |
| Pages | pp 155-185 |
| Keywords | Social characteristics [elderly] ; Personality ; Attitude ; Self esteem ; Health [elderly] ; Physical disabilities ; Social surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Data from a south-western Ontario, Canada community sample of 1,549 disabled and non-disabled individuals were examined using ordinary least squares regression for how age patterns in health control, self-efficacy, and self-esteem are influenced by age-correlated social status, health, personality, and social integration variables. Older respondents report lower health control, self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Less education, more physical impairment, poorer global health, less empathy, and less introspectiveness explain about 43% of age's negative association with health control, and more than half of its negative association with self-esteem. Age is also associated more negatively with self-efficacy among disabled people. Social status variables conceal the strength of the age-by-disability interaction coefficient, while health accounts for almost an equal amount. The findings describe how age-correlated personal and social factors contribute to, or statistically conceal, older people's sense of health control, self-efficacy and self-esteem. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010731207 A |
| Classmark | F: DK: DP: DPA: CC: BN: 3F: 7S |
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