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| Lifetime trauma, emotional support and life satisfaction among older adults | | Author(s) | Neal Krause |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 44, no 5, October 2004 |
| Pages | pp 615-623 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Stress ; Life span ; Age groups [elderly] ; Attitude ; Personal relationships ; Life satisfaction ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The relationships between lifetime exposures to traumatic events, emotional support, and life satisfaction are examined in three cohorts of older people. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with a nationwide US sample of 1,508 older people in 2003. Approximately 500 were interviewed from each of the young-old (65-74), the old-old (75-84), and oldest-old (85+) cohorts. Findings reveal that exposure to lifetime trauma is associated with less life satisfaction in all three age cohorts. The data further reveal that emotional support affects the effects of trauma on feelings of life satisfaction in the old-old and the oldest-old. The stress buffering properties of emotional support were especially evident in the oldest-old. The findings underscore the need to develop interventions that help older people deal more effectively with lifetime trauma. Moreover, the results suggest that interventions providing emotional support may be especially helpful for the oldest-old. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050412208 A |
| Classmark | QNH: BG6: BB: DP: DS: F:5HH: 3F: 7T |
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