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| The sense of mastery as a mediator and moderator in the association between economic hardship and health in late life | | Author(s) | Tetyana Pudrovska, Scott Schieman, Leonard I Pearlin |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 17, no 5, October 2005 |
| Pages | pp 634-660 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Self esteem ; Competence ; Poverty ; Health [elderly] ; Stress ; Life span ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors hypothesise that early, mid- and late life economic hardships are related positively to older people's physical and psychological problems. They also expect that mastery has a mediating effect on such financial problems. They use data for a sample of 1,167 older people in the District of Columbia (DC) and Maryland. Ordinary least squares regression techniques were used to estimate the main and mastery contingent effects of economic hardship. Results underscore the dual role of the sense of mastery in the stress process. First, mastery mediates the effects of both earlier and later life economic hardships on older people's current physical and mental health. Second, mastery moderates the health impact of economic hardship, although these patterns depend on the period of economic hardship and health outcome. Integrating the stress process model and life course perspective, the authors argue that to fully understand the protective capacity of psychosocial resources, stressors encountered at different life stages should be taken into account. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051121204 A |
| Classmark | DPA: DPB: W6: CC: QNH: BG6: 49: 7T |
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