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| Productive activities and psychological well-being among older adults | | Author(s) | Yanni Hao |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 63B, no 2, March 2008 |
| Pages | pp S64-S72 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Well being ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Does paid work and formal volunteering reduce the rate of mental health decline in later life? Using data collected from a sample of 7830 individuals aged 55-66 from four waves of the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the author estimated growth curve models to assess the effects of productive activities on mental health trajectories. Results indicate that activity participants generally had better mental health at the beginning of the study. Full-time employment and low-level volunteering had independent protective effects against decline in psychological well-being. Joint participants of both productive activities enjoyed a slower rate of mental health decline than single activity participants. The results are consistent with activity theory and further confirm the role accumulation perspective. The finding that full-time work combined with low-level volunteering is protective of mental health reveals the complementary effect of volunteering to formal employment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080729205 A |
| Classmark | GC: GHH: D:F:5HH: 49: 3J: 7T |
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