IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/socmed/v48y1999i9p1161-1172.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The relationship of functional limitations to disability and the moderating effects of psychological attributes in community-dwelling older persons

Author

Listed:
  • Kempen, Gertrudis I. J. M.
  • van Heuvelen, Marieke J. G.
  • van Sonderen, Eric
  • van den Brink, Rob H. S.
  • Kooijman, Aart C.
  • Ormel, Johan

Abstract

This paper examines the moderating effects of three psychological attributes (neuroticism, self-efficacy expectancies and mastery) on the association between functional limitations (motor and cognitive limitation, vision and hearing loss) and disability ((instrumental) activities of daily living, role function and social function) in a sample of 624 community-dwelling older persons. In contrast to our hypothesis, we did not find any evidence for interaction effects. This means that low levels of psychological resources do not exacerbate the effect of functional limitation on disability in community-dwelling older persons. We found significant unique contributions of the psychological attributes to disability. Even when all three psychological attributes were taken into account, neuroticism and mastery had unique effects on social and role function, and self-efficacy expectancies had unique effects on (instrumental) activities of daily living. We conclude that the effects of functional limitation and psychological attributes on disability can be considered as additive. Older persons with less psychological resources are particularly at risk in developing disability.

Suggested Citation

  • Kempen, Gertrudis I. J. M. & van Heuvelen, Marieke J. G. & van Sonderen, Eric & van den Brink, Rob H. S. & Kooijman, Aart C. & Ormel, Johan, 1999. "The relationship of functional limitations to disability and the moderating effects of psychological attributes in community-dwelling older persons," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 48(9), pages 1161-1172, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:48:y:1999:i:9:p:1161-1172
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277-9536(98)00427-4
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Gill Windle & Robert Woods & David Markland, 2010. "Living with Ill-Health in Older Age: The Role of a Resilient Personality," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 11(6), pages 763-777, December.
    2. Ben Lennox Kail & Dawn C. Carr, 2017. "Successful Aging in the Context of the Disablement Process: Working and Volunteering as Moderators on the Association Between Chronic Conditions and Subsequent Functional Limitations," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 72(2), pages 340-350.
    3. Koster, Annemarie & Bosma, Hans & van Lenthe, Frank J. & Kempen, Gertrudis I.J.M. & Mackenbach, Johan P. & van Eijk, Jacques Th.M., 2005. "The role of psychosocial factors in explaining socio-economic differences in mobility decline in a chronically ill population: results from the GLOBE study," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 61(1), pages 123-132, July.
    4. Lee, Min-Ah, 2011. "Disparity in disability between native-born non-Hispanic white and foreign-born Asian older adults in the United States: Effects of educational attainment and age at immigration," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 72(8), pages 1249-1257, April.
    5. Bennion, Amy E. & Shaw, Rachel L. & Gibson, Jonathan M., 2012. "What do we know about the experience of age related macular degeneration? A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 75(6), pages 976-985.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:48:y:1999:i:9:p:1161-1172. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/315/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.