Psychological Predictors of Mortality in Old Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12444079 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Maier (0000-0003-1768-7833), Jacqui Smith (0000-0002-6499-103X, Max Planck Institute for Human Development) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 54B |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | P44-P54 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journals of Gerontology Series B (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1079-5014 • E-ISSN: 1758-5368 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/geronb/54b.1.p44 |
| PMID | 9934395 |
| OpenAlex | W2119777770 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 73 |
| References cited | 9 |
Cox regression models examined associations between 17 indicators of psychological functioning (intellectual abilities, personality, subjective well-being, and social relations) and mortality. The sample (N = 516, age range 70-103 years) comprised participants in the Berlin Aging Study assessed between 1990 and 1993. By 1996, 50% had died. Eleven indicators were identified as mortality risk factors at the zero-order level and six when age was controlled. Low perceptual speed and dissatisfaction with aging were uniquely significant after controls for age, SES, health, and the 16 other psychological factors. Low intellectual functioning was a greater risk for individuals aged 70-84 years than for the oldest old (over 85 years). The effects of psychological risk factors did not diminish over time. Future research should focus on the mechanisms and time frames that underlie the death-relatedness of intellectual functioning and self-evaluation
Borderline intellectual functioning · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Personality · Psychiatry · Aging and Gerontology Research · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Gerontology · Social Psychology
The interpersonally sensitive disposition and health
Psychological Consequences of Longevity
Social Relationships and Mortality Risk
Health benefits
Self-perceptions of aging predict mortality and change with approaching death
Personality Change Influences Mortality in Older Men
Predictors of Cognitive Decline and Mortality of Aged People Over a 10-Year Period
The Power of Personality
Global reach of ageism on older persons’ health
Association of loneliness with all-cause mortality
Healthy happiness
Situational versus chronic loneliness as risk factors for all-cause mortality
Social Relationships and Mortality Risk
Still Happy After All These Years
Personality and Mortality in Old Age
Cognitive Functioning in Centenarians
Self-Perceptions of Aging
Longitudinal Selectivity in Aging Populations
Perceived Social Support and Mortality in Older People
Positive and Negative Affect in Very Old Age
Is Positive Well-Being Protective of Mobility Limitations Among Older Adults
The Effect of the Duration of Follow-Up in Mortality Analysis
Satisfaction With Present Life Predicts Survival in Octogenarians
Age Identity and Subjective Well-Being
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Discrete Emotions in Later Life
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Happiness in Everyday Life
Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Mortality in the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey
Cognition and All-Cause Mortality Across the Entire Adult Age Range
Positive Psychological Well-Being and Mortality
Five Factor Model Personality Traits and All-Cause Mortality in the Edinburgh Artery Study Cohort
Domain and Facet Personality Predictors of All-Cause Mortality Among Medicare Patients Aged 65 to 100
Sense of Life Worth Living (Ikigai) and Mortality in Japan
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Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Mortality in a Defined Population of Older Persons
Social Integration, Social Support and Mortality in the US National Health Interview Survey
Self‐Pity
Positive affect, social connectedness, and healthy biomarkers in Japan and the U.S
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 90 cohort studies of social isolation, loneliness and mortality
Social and Psychological Resources and Adaptation
Self-perception of aging and health among older adults in Korea
The role of morbidity for proxy-reported well-being in the last year of life
Age and time-to-death trajectories of change in indicators of cognitive, sensory, physical, health, social, and self-related functions
Well-being affects changes in perceptual speed in advanced old age
Memory and depressive symptoms are dynamically linked among married couples
Comparative longitudinal structural analyses of the growth and decline of multiple intellectual abilities over the life span
Life satisfaction shows terminal decline in old age
The double-edged role of accessed status on health and well-being among middle- and older-age adults in rural South Africa
Awareness of Age-Related Changes Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
Relationship between Personality and Mortality among Japanese Older Adults
Effects of Horticultural Activities on Attitudes toward Aging, Sense of Hope and Hand–Eye Coordination in Older Adults in Residential Care Facilities
Ageism, Healthy Life Expectancy and Population Ageing
Changes in Perceived Health and Depressive Symptoms
Life satisfaction and mortality in elderly people
Predictors of mortality among elderly people living in a south Indian urban community; a 10/66 Dementia Research Group prospective population-based cohort study
Poverty and HIV/Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa
Two-Wave Longitudinal Findings From the Berlin Aging Study
Effects of life-place trajectories based on municipality of residence on old-age mortality
Openness to Experience and Mortality in Men
Solitary Day, Solitary Activities, and Associations With Well-Being Among Older Adults
Application of a Joint Multivariate Longitudinal–Survival Analysis to Examine the Terminal Decline Hypothesis in the Swiss Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on the Oldest Old
Social Resources as Compensatory Cognitive Reserve? Interactions of Social Resources With Education in Predicting Late-Life Cognition
Personal Views about Aging among Korean American Older Adults
Filling a missing link
Do health behaviors explain the effect of neuroticism on mortality? Longitudinal findings from the VA Normative Aging Study
The role of vigilance in the relationship between neuroticism and health
Perfectionism and the Five-factor Personality Traits as Predictors of Mortality in Older Adults
The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect
Does positive affect influence health
Higher Resident Neuroticism Is Specifically Associated With Elevated State Cancer and Heart Disease Mortality Rates in the United States
The Relation of Social Comparison to Subjective Well-Being and Health Status in Older Adults
Abilities
Psychosocial and behavioral predictors of longevity
The Meaning of Older Adults' Health Appraisals
A study of the dropout rates in longitudinal research on aging and the prediction of death
Development, drop, and death
Medical and social predictors of longevity in the elderly
Social networks and longevity. A 14 year follow-up study among elderly in Denmark
Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis
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