Johan Ormel
Biographic Data
| ID | 134940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johan Ormel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ormel |
| SIGNATURE | ORMEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5463-037X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 533 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Annual Research Review: Stability of psychopathology: lessons learned from longitudinal population surveys
BACKGROUND: Psychopathology has been long recognized as a fluctuating process with various expressions over time, which can only be properly understood if we follow individuals and their social context from childhood up until adulthood. Longitudinal population-based studies have yielded powerful data to analyze this process. However, the resulting publications have not been reflected upon with regard to (a) the homotypic and heterotypic stability…
Is personality stable and symptoms fleeting? A longitudinal comparison in adolescence
On Imbalance of Impulse Control and Sensation Seeking and Adolescent Risk: An Intra-individual Developmental Test of the Dual Systems and Maturational Imbalance Models
Heterogeneity in development of imbalance between impulse control and sensation seeking has not been studied until now. The present study scrutinized this heterogeneity and the link between imbalance and adolescent risk. Seven-wave data of 7,558 youth (50.71% males; age range from 12/13 until 24/25) were used. Three developmental trajectories were identified. The first trajectory, “sensation seeking to balanced sensation seeking”, included partic…
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A dimensional alternative to traditional nosologies.
SNP‐Based Heritability Estimates of Common and Specific Variance in Self‐ and Informant‐Reported Neuroticism Scales
OBJECTIVE: Our study aims to estimate the proportion of the phenotypic variance of Neuroticism and its facet scales that can be attributed to common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in two adult populations from Estonia (EGCUT; N = 3,292) and the Netherlands (Lifelines; N = 13,383). METHOD: Genomic-relatedness-matrix restricted maximum likelihood (GREML) using genome-wide complex trait analysis (GCTA) software was employed. To build upon pr…
Adolescent Personality: Associations With Basal, Awakening, and Stress‐Induced Cortisol Responses
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the associations between personality facets and hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal ( HPA ) axis functioning. Previous studies have mainly focussed on stress‐induced HPA ‐axis activation. We hypothesized that other characteristics of HPA ‐axis functioning would have a stronger association with personality based on the neuroendocrine literature. Data ( n = 343) were used from the TR acking A dolescent…
Longitudinal associations between depressive problems, academic performance, and social functioning in adolescent boys and girls
Depressive problems and academic performance, social well-being, and social problems in adolescents are strongly associated. However, longitudinal and bidirectional relations between the two remain unclear, as well as the role of gender. Consequently, this study focuses on the relation between depressive problems and three types of functioning in adolescents while testing gender differences. Depressive problems and functioning of 2,230 children w…
Mutual reinforcement between neuroticism and life experiences: A five-wave, 16-year study to test reciprocal causation
High neuroticism predicts psychopathology and physical health problems. Nongenetic factors, including major life events and experiences, explain approximately half of the variance in neuroticism. Conversely, neuroticism also predicts these life experiences. In this study, we aimed to quantify the reciprocal causation between neuroticism and life experiences and to gauge the magnitude and persistence of these associations. This longitudinal cohort…
Neuroticism and common mental disorders: Meaning and utility of a complex relationship
Life changes and depressive symptoms: The effects of valence and amount of change
More positive life changes relative to negative life changes can protect against depressive symptoms, yet only when the amount of change is limited. This study encourages examination of the effects of life changes on specific symptom clusters instead of total numbers of depressive symptoms, which is the current standard
Psychopathology and Academic Performance, Social Well-Being, and Social Preference at School: The TRAILS Study
Early risk factors for being a bully, victim, or bully/victim in late elementary and early secondary education. The longitudinal TRAILS study
Preschool behavioral, emotional and motor problems, socioeconomic status, and family breakup are related to involvement in bullying at a later age. Prevention of bullying and its consequences can be enhanced by focusing on risk groups in early life
Prevention of false positive findings in observational studies: Registration will not work but replication might
obtaining positive findings. In this editorial, we will explore two potential solutions to reduce the risk of false positive findings from observational studies: a registration requirement; and a replication requirement
Parental psychopathology and socioeconomic position predict adolescent offspring's mental health independently and do not interact: The TRAILS study
BACKGROUND: Familial risk factors have been implicated in the development of mental health problems in adolescents. Whether the associations between parental loading, as assessed by lifetime psychopathology, and offspring internalising and externalising problems were moderated by family socioeconomic position (SEP) was investigated. Two hypotheses of moderation were tested: (1) the "social push" hypothesis in which parental loading effects are st…
Twelve-Month Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys
OBJECTIVE: Although suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, clinicians and researchers lack a data-driven method to assess the risk of suicide attempts. This study reports the results of an analysis of a large cross-national epidemiologic survey database that estimates the 12-month prevalence of suicidal behaviors, identifies risk factors for suicide attempts, and combines these factors to create a risk index for 12-month suicide attempts …
Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
BACKGROUND: Although significant associations of childhood adversities with adult mental disorders are widely documented, most studies focus on single childhood adversities predicting single disorders. AIMS: To examine joint associations of 12 childhood adversities with first onset of 20 DSM-IV disorders in World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys in 21 countries. METHOD: Nationally or regionally representative surveys of 51 945 adults assessed childhoo…
Generation of Interpersonal Stressful Events: The Role of Poor Social Skills and Early Physical Maturation in Young Adolescents—The TRAILS Study
This study developed two specifications of the social skills deficit stress generation hypothesis: the “gender-incongruence” hypothesis to predict peer victimization and the “need for autonomy” hypothesis to predict conflict with authorities. These hypotheses were tested in a prospective large population cohort of 2,064 Dutch young adolescents. Social skills and pubertal timing were measured when the sample was about 11 years old, and stressful l…
The adaptive role of perceived control before and after cancer diagnosis: A prospective study
The global burden of mental disorders: An update from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys
Aims - The paper reviews recent findings from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys on the global burden of mental disorders. Methods - The WMH surveys are representative community surveys in 28 countries throughout the world aimed at providing information to mental health policy makers about the prevalence, distribution, burden, and unmet need for treatment of common mental disorders. Results - The first 17 WMH surveys show that mental disor…
Preadolescents' Somatic and Cognitive-Affective Depressive Symptoms Are Differentially Related to Cardiac Autonomic Function and Cortisol: The TRAILS Study
Objective: To examine in a nonclinical sample of preadolescents the possibility that somatic and cognitive-affective depressive symptoms are differentially related with the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Depression is a well-known risk factor for cardiovascular disease and mortality. Dysregulation of the ANS and the HPA axis have been proposed as underlying mechanisms. Several studies suggest tha…
Neuroticism and Morning Cortisol Secretion: Both Heritable, But No Shared Genetic Influences
Neuroticism is widely used as an explanatory concept in etiological research of psychopathology. To clarify what neuroticism actually represents, we investigated the phenotypic and genetic relationship between neuroticism and the morning cortisol secretion. In the current classic twin study, 125 female twin pairs (74 monozygotic and 51 dizygotic pairs) participated. For each participant, 4 different neuroticism scores were available to calculate …
The Relation Between Popularity and Aggressive, Destructive, and Norm‐Breaking Behaviors: Moderating Effects of Athletic Abilities, Physical Attractiveness, and Prosociality
The aim of this study was to examine the relations between popularity and different types of aggressive, destructive, and norm‐breaking behaviors in a large cross‐sectional sample of adolescents ( N =3,312, M age=13.60). We were interested in the extent to which the relations of these behaviors with popularity were moderated by positive features (i.e., athletic abilities, physical attractiveness, and prosociality). From a goal‐framing perspective…
Buffers and risks in temperament and family for early adolescent psychopathology: Generic, conditional, or domain-specific effects? The trails study
This study examined the possible risk-buffering and risk-enhancing role of family characteristics on the association between temperament and early adolescent externalizing and internalizing problems, adjusted for familial vulnerability for psychopathology and early childhood problem behavior. Furthermore, it explored whether these effects were specific or conditional for either internalizing or externalizing problems or more generic for psychopat…
Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine Use: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
BACKGROUND: Alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use cause considerable morbidity and mortality, but good cross-national epidemiological data are limited. This paper describes such data from the first 17 countries participating in the World Health Organization's (WHO's) World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Household surveys with a combined sample size of 85,052 were carried out in the Americas (Colombia, Mexico, United…
Childhood Adversity, Early-Onset Depressive/Anxiety Disorders, and Adult-Onset Asthma
OBJECTIVES: To investigate a) whether childhood adversity predicts adult-onset asthma; b) whether early-onset depressive/anxiety disorders predict adult-onset asthma; and c) whether childhood adversity and early-onset depressive/anxiety disorders predict adult-onset asthma independently of each other. Previous research has suggested, but not established, that childhood adversity may predict adult-onset asthma and, moreover, that the association b…
Subjective Well-Being and Social Production Functions
Bullying and Victimization in Elementary Schools: A Comparison of Bullies, Victims, Bully/Victims, and Uninvolved Preadolescents
Research on bullying and victimization largely rests on univariate analyses and on reports from a single informant. Researchers may thus know too little about the simultaneous effects of various independent and dependent variables, and their research may be biased by shared method variance. The database for this Dutch study was large (N = 1,065) and rich enough to allow multivariate analysis and multi-source information. In addition, the effect o…
Temporal and Reciprocal Relationship Between Iadl/ADL Disability and Depressive Symptoms in Late Life
A strong association between functional disability and depressive symptoms in older people has frequently been reported. Some studies attribute this association to the disabling effects of depression, others to the depressogenic effects of physical health-related disability. The authors examined the reciprocal effects between depressive symptoms and functional disability and their temporal character in a community-based cohort of 753 older people…
Quality of life and social production functions: A framework for understanding health effects
The Relation Between Popularity and Aggressive, Destructive, and Norm‐Breaking Behaviors: Moderating Effects of Athletic Abilities, Physical Attractiveness, and Prosociality
The aim of this study was to examine the relations between popularity and different types of aggressive, destructive, and norm‐breaking behaviors in a large cross‐sectional sample of adolescents ( N =3,312, M age=13.60). We were interested in the extent to which the relations of these behaviors with popularity were moderated by positive features (i.e., athletic abilities, physical attractiveness, and prosociality). From a goal‐framing perspective…
Longitudinal associations between depressive problems, academic performance, and social functioning in adolescent boys and girls
Depressive problems and academic performance, social well-being, and social problems in adolescents are strongly associated. However, longitudinal and bidirectional relations between the two remain unclear, as well as the role of gender. Consequently, this study focuses on the relation between depressive problems and three types of functioning in adolescents while testing gender differences. Depressive problems and functioning of 2,230 children w…
The relationship of functional limitations to disability and the moderating effects of psychological attributes in community-dwelling older persons
The Assessment of ADL among Frail Elderly in an Interview Survey: Self-report versus Performance-Based Tests and Determinants of Discrepancies
The impact of three sociodemographic, two cognitive, two affective, and four personality measures on the discrepancies between self-reported and performance-based ADL in a sample of 753 frail elderly is studied by means of multiple regression analyses. Underestimation (i.e., lower self-reported levels of ADL compared to performance-based levels) occurs, in particular, among subjects with low perceptions of physical competence and mastery or perso…
Adaptive responses among Dutch elderly: The impact of eight chronic medical conditions on health-related quality of life
OBJECTIVES: This study analyzed the impact of eight common chronic medical conditions on functional, social, and affective domains of health-related quality of life among community-based Dutch elderly (n = 5279). METHODS: Health-related quality of life was measured with six domains of the MOS Short-Form General Health Survey. The impact of the selected chronic conditions on health-related quality of life was analyzed by means of Student's t tests…
Spousal caregivers' activity restriction and depression: A model for changes over time
How neuroticism, long-term difficulties, and life situation change influence psychological distress: A longitudinal model
The causal relationships between neuroticism (N), long-term difficulties (LTDs), life situation change (LSC), and psychological distress (PD) were examined using self-report and interview data from a 7-year, 3-wave study in a general population sample (N = 296). LTDs were classified as either endogenous (dependent) or exogenous (independent). We found that earlier neuroticism had a strong direct and a moderate indirect effect (through endogenous …
The assessment of disability with the Groningen Activity Restriction Scale. Conceptual framework and psychometric properties
Towards understanding successful ageing: Patterned change in resources and goals
In this paper it is argued that the problem of formulating a comprehensive theory of successful ageing – and thereby of finding good criteria for success – may be attributed to the lack of a suitable multidisciplinary framework that meets at least three basic theoretical requirements. These requirements are explicated, and some existing theories and approaches of successful ageing are discussed in the light of these requirements. An alternative t…
Mutual reinforcement between neuroticism and life experiences: A five-wave, 16-year study to test reciprocal causation
High neuroticism predicts psychopathology and physical health problems. Nongenetic factors, including major life events and experiences, explain approximately half of the variance in neuroticism. Conversely, neuroticism also predicts these life experiences. In this study, we aimed to quantify the reciprocal causation between neuroticism and life experiences and to gauge the magnitude and persistence of these associations. This longitudinal cohort…
The Measurement of Reciprocity in Ego-Centered Networks of Personal Relationships: A Comparison of Various Indices
Theo Van Tilburg, Eric Van Sonderen, Johan Ormel, The Measurement of Reciprocity in Ego-Centered Networks of Personal Relationships: A Comparison of Various Indices, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 54-66
Gender differences in the relation between social support, problems in parent-offspring communication, and depression and anxiety
The Impact of Psychological Attributes on Changes in Disability Among Low-Functioning Older Persons
We studied the impact of four psychological attributes (neuroticism, extraversion, mastery or perceived control, and general self-efficacy expectancies) on changes in disability in a community-based sample of 575 low-functioning elderly persons between 1993 and 1995. Unlike elderly persons with low or medium levels of mastery and general self-efficacy expectancies, older persons with high levels of such attributes showed no significant increase o…
The adaptive role of perceived control before and after cancer diagnosis: A prospective study
Depression, anxiety, and social disability show synchrony of change in primary care patients
OBJECTIVES. The purposes of this study were to (1) characterize the social disability associated with the common psychiatric illnesses of primary care patients in terms of role dysfunction (self-care, family role, social role, occupational role) and (2) establish whether severity of psychiatric illness and disability level show synchrony of change. METHODS. A two-stage sample design was employed. In the first stage, 1994 consecutive attenders of …
Stability and change in psychological distress and their relationship with self-esteem and locus of control: A dynamic equilibrium model
The proposed model assumes (a) that each person has a stable and characteristic symptom level, (b) that external events act to deflect symptom levels from this stable level, and (c) that adaptive mechanisms tend to normalize these deviations. The model is used to examine (a) the dynamics of psychological distress (PD), (b) the role of personality traits (i.e., self-esteem and locus of control), and (c) the contamination of these traits by the cur…
On Imbalance of Impulse Control and Sensation Seeking and Adolescent Risk: An Intra-individual Developmental Test of the Dual Systems and Maturational Imbalance Models
Heterogeneity in development of imbalance between impulse control and sensation seeking has not been studied until now. The present study scrutinized this heterogeneity and the link between imbalance and adolescent risk. Seven-wave data of 7,558 youth (50.71% males; age range from 12/13 until 24/25) were used. Three developmental trajectories were identified. The first trajectory, “sensation seeking to balanced sensation seeking”, included partic…
Buffers and risks in temperament and family for early adolescent psychopathology: Generic, conditional, or domain-specific effects? The trails study
This study examined the possible risk-buffering and risk-enhancing role of family characteristics on the association between temperament and early adolescent externalizing and internalizing problems, adjusted for familial vulnerability for psychopathology and early childhood problem behavior. Furthermore, it explored whether these effects were specific or conditional for either internalizing or externalizing problems or more generic for psychopat…
Morbidity and quality of life and the moderating effects of level of education in the elderly
Parental psychopathology and socioeconomic position predict adolescent offspring's mental health independently and do not interact: The TRAILS study
BACKGROUND: Familial risk factors have been implicated in the development of mental health problems in adolescents. Whether the associations between parental loading, as assessed by lifetime psychopathology, and offspring internalising and externalising problems were moderated by family socioeconomic position (SEP) was investigated. Two hypotheses of moderation were tested: (1) the "social push" hypothesis in which parental loading effects are st…
Parental Divorce and Offspring Depressive Symptoms: Dutch Developmental Trends During Early Adolescence
In this study, we investigated if the association between parental divorce and depressive symptoms changes during early adolescence and if developmental patterns are similar for boys and girls. Data were collected in a prospective population cohort of Dutch adolescents (N = 2,149), aged 10 - 15 years. Outcome variables were self-reported and parent-reported depressive symptoms. The effects of divorce were adjusted for parental depression. In both…
Long-Term Stability of the Rational Behavior Inventory and the General Health Questionnaire
For scores of a community sample of 230 adults (120 men, 110 women) rs over 17 mo. were .40 and .78 for the General Health Questionnaire and Rational Behavior Inventory, respectively
The Measurement of Reciprocity in Ego-Centered Networks of Personal Relationships: A Comparison of Various Indices
Theo Van Tilburg, Eric Van Sonderen, Johan Ormel, The Measurement of Reciprocity in Ego-Centered Networks of Personal Relationships: A Comparison of Various Indices, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 54-66
Stability and change in psychological distress and their relationship with self-esteem and locus of control: A dynamic equilibrium model
The proposed model assumes (a) that each person has a stable and characteristic symptom level, (b) that external events act to deflect symptom levels from this stable level, and (c) that adaptive mechanisms tend to normalize these deviations. The model is used to examine (a) the dynamics of psychological distress (PD), (b) the role of personality traits (i.e., self-esteem and locus of control), and (c) the contamination of these traits by the cur…
How neuroticism, long-term difficulties, and life situation change influence psychological distress: A longitudinal model
The causal relationships between neuroticism (N), long-term difficulties (LTDs), life situation change (LSC), and psychological distress (PD) were examined using self-report and interview data from a 7-year, 3-wave study in a general population sample (N = 296). LTDs were classified as either endogenous (dependent) or exogenous (independent). We found that earlier neuroticism had a strong direct and a moderate indirect effect (through endogenous …
Grading the severity of chronic pain
This research develops and evaluates a simple method of grading the severity of chronic pain for use in general population surveys and studies of primary care pain patients. Measures of pain intensity, disability, persistence and recency of onset were tested for their ability to grade chronic pain severity in a longitudinal study of primary care back pain (n = 1213), headache (n = 779) and temporomandibular disorder pain (n = 397) patients. A Gut…
Adequacy and Duration of Antidepressant Treatment in Primary Care
Among a sample of 119 distressed high-utilizers of primary care, 45% of patients evaluated by a psychiatrist as needing antidepressant treatment had been treated in the year before the examination. However, only 11% of the patients needing antidepressants had received adequate dosage and duration of pharmacotherapy. In the year following the intervention, study patients whose physicians were advised regarding treatment during a psychiatric consul…
Depression, anxiety, and social disability show synchrony of change in primary care patients
OBJECTIVES. The purposes of this study were to (1) characterize the social disability associated with the common psychiatric illnesses of primary care patients in terms of role dysfunction (self-care, family role, social role, occupational role) and (2) establish whether severity of psychiatric illness and disability level show synchrony of change. METHODS. A two-stage sample design was employed. In the first stage, 1994 consecutive attenders of …
Common Mental Disorders and Disability Across Cultures: Results From the WHO Collaborative Study on Psychological Problems in General Health Care
Objective. —To examine the impact of common mental illness on functional disability and the cross-cultural consistency of this relationship while controlling for physical illness. A secondary objective was to determine the level of disability associated with specific psychiatric disorders. Design. —A cross-sectional sample selected by two-stage sampling. Setting. —Primary health care facilities in 14 countries covering most major cultures and lan…
The Assessment of ADL among Frail Elderly in an Interview Survey: Self-report versus Performance-Based Tests and Determinants of Discrepancies
The impact of three sociodemographic, two cognitive, two affective, and four personality measures on the discrepancies between self-reported and performance-based ADL in a sample of 753 frail elderly is studied by means of multiple regression analyses. Underestimation (i.e., lower self-reported levels of ADL compared to performance-based levels) occurs, in particular, among subjects with low perceptions of physical competence and mastery or perso…
The assessment of disability with the Groningen Activity Restriction Scale. Conceptual framework and psychometric properties
A validation study of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (Hads) in different groups of Dutch subjects
Background. Research on the dimensional structure and reliability of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and its relationship with age is scarce. Moreover, its efficacy in determining the presence of depression in different patient groups has been questioned. Methods. Psychometric properties of the HADS were assessed in six different groups of Dutch subjects ( N = 6165): (1) a random sample of younger adults (age 18–65 years) ( N = 1…
Adaptive responses among Dutch elderly: The impact of eight chronic medical conditions on health-related quality of life
OBJECTIVES: This study analyzed the impact of eight common chronic medical conditions on functional, social, and affective domains of health-related quality of life among community-based Dutch elderly (n = 5279). METHODS: Health-related quality of life was measured with six domains of the MOS Short-Form General Health Survey. The impact of the selected chronic conditions on health-related quality of life was analyzed by means of Student's t tests…
Quality of life and social production functions: A framework for understanding health effects
Why GHQ threshold varies from one place to another
Background. No convincing explanation has been forthcoming for the variation in best threshold to adopt for the GHQ in different settings. Methods. Data dealing with the GHQ and the CIDI in 15 cities from a recent WHO study was subjected to further analysis. Results. The mean number of CIDI symptoms for those with single diagnoses, or those with multiple diagnoses, does not vary between cities. However, the best threshold is found to be related t…
Towards understanding successful ageing: Patterned change in resources and goals
In this paper it is argued that the problem of formulating a comprehensive theory of successful ageing – and thereby of finding good criteria for success – may be attributed to the lack of a suitable multidisciplinary framework that meets at least three basic theoretical requirements. These requirements are explicated, and some existing theories and approaches of successful ageing are discussed in the light of these requirements. An alternative t…
Kempen and Ormel Respond
Kempen and Ormel Respond Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen, and Johan Ormel X S Ren, and L KazisCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.5.838 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Spousal caregivers' activity restriction and depression: A model for changes over time
An International Study of the Relation between Somatic Symptoms and Depression
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: Patients with depression, particularly those seen by primary care physicians, may report somatic symptoms, such as headache, constipation, weakness, or back pain. Some previous studies have suggested that patients in non-Western countries are more likely to report somatic symptoms than are patients in Western countries. We used data from the World Health Organization's study of psychological problems in general health care…
Conjugal Bereavement and Well-Being of Elderly Men and Women: A Preliminary Study
Considerable variation in the effects of the loss of the spouse have been reported, and there is lack of agreement regarding the effects of gender and bereavement on well-being. The objective of this article is to examine time-differences in the consequences of bereavement for men and women. Cross-sectional data are used on 4642 married or widowed late mid-life and elderly people. Analyses show that bereaved participants score significantly lower…
Performance-Based and Self-Reported Physical Functioning in Low-Functioning Older Persons: Congruence of Change and the Impact of Depressive Symptoms
This prospective cohort study examines the impact of depressive symptoms on changes in self-reported physical functioning in 574 low-functioning older persons. The data were collected in two waves in 1993 and 1995. Initial levels of depressive symptoms were not predictive for subsequent change in self-reported physical functioning. Changes in self-reported physical functioning were only moderately associated with changes in performance-based phys…
The Impact of Psychological Attributes on Changes in Disability Among Low-Functioning Older Persons
We studied the impact of four psychological attributes (neuroticism, extraversion, mastery or perceived control, and general self-efficacy expectancies) on changes in disability in a community-based sample of 575 low-functioning elderly persons between 1993 and 1995. Unlike elderly persons with low or medium levels of mastery and general self-efficacy expectancies, older persons with high levels of such attributes showed no significant increase o…
The relationship of functional limitations to disability and the moderating effects of psychological attributes in community-dwelling older persons
Morbidity and quality of life and the moderating effects of level of education in the elderly
Subjective Well-Being and Social Production Functions
Models of health-related quality of life in a population of community-dwelling Dutch elderly
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