E L Idler
Biographic Data
| ID | 6082267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E L Idler |
| GIVEN NAMES | E L |
| FAMILY NAME | Idler |
| SIGNATURE | IDLER E L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 323 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Religion and the Quality of Life in the Last Year of Life
Overall, QOL in the last year of life is positively related to religious involvement, particularly its more subjective dimensions
Response To: "Idler and Kasl's p Values: A Cautionary Lesson"
Psychosomatic Medicine, founded in 1939, is the official organ of the American Psychosomatic Society. It publishes experimental and clinical studies dealing with various aspects of the relationships among social, psychological, and behavioral factors and bodily processes in humans and animals. It is an international, interdisciplinary journal devoted to experimental and clinical investigation in behavioral biology, psychiatry, psychology, physiol…
The Many Causal Pathways Linking Religion to Health
Journal Article The Many Causal Pathways Linking Religion to Health Get access Ellen L. Idler Ellen L. Idler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Policy & Aging Report, Volume 12, Issue 4, Summer 2002, Pages 7–12, https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/12.4.7 Published: 01 June 2002
Patterns of Religious Practice and Belief in the Last Year of Life
Community studies of respondents in their last year of life are rare. In this sample, religious involvement appears to continue throughout the last months of life
Survival, Functional Limitations, and Self-rated Health in the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, 1992
This study examined relative hazards for mortality and functional limitations according to poor self-ratings of health using prospective data from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, a representative sample of US adults aged 25-74 years that has been followed since the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) was conducted in 1971-1975. Follow-up data were taken from death records and from the 1982 and 1992 reinte…
Positive Affect and Function as Influences on Self-Assessments of Health: Expanding Our View Beyond Illness and Disability
Longitudinal data from 851 elderly residents of a retirement community ( \(\mathrm{mean\ age\ }\mathbf{=}\ 73\ \mathrm{years}\) ) were used to examine the correlates of self-assessments of health (SAH) and the predictors of changes in SAH over several follow-up periods ranging from 1 to 5 years. The authors hypothesized that indicators of positive health, including feelings of energy and positive mood, social support, and active functioning, are …
Religion among Disabled and Nondisabled Persons II: Attendance at Religious Services as a Predictor of the Course of Disability
Does religious involvement influence changes in physical health? We perform a longitudinal analysis of the effect of religious participation on functioning over a 12-year follow-up period, in a large, prospective, representative sample of elderly persons from New Haven, Connecticut, a religiously diverse community. To examine the possibility that disability or changes in disability may be affecting religious involvement, we perform a second longi…
Religion among Disabled and Nondisabled Persons I: Cross-sectional Patterns in Health Practices, Social Activities, and Well-being Ellen
What is the relationship between religious involvement and functional disability among elderly people? Is being disabled different for those who frequently attend religious services? Does religious involvement have an effect on subsequent change in disability? Deriving our hypotheses from traditional theories in the sociology of religion, these questions are explored in these two related articles. Both employ data from the New Haven site of the E…
Self-Rated Health and Physical Disability in Elderly Survivors of a Major Medical Event
This article describes change and stability in self-rated health after a major medical event. Using a prospective design, it examines the ability of premorbid and post-illness health perceptions to predict physical disability independently of medical, psychosocial, and behavioral variables. Participants (N=254) were a subsample of the New Haven cohort of the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) project who had …
Self-Ratings of Health: Do they also Predict change in Functional Ability
Self-ratings of health by individuals responding to surveys have shown themselves to be potent predictors of mortality in a growing number of studies; they appear to contribute significant additional independent information to health status indicators gathered through self-reported health histories or medical examinations. A key question raised by these studies is: What are the mediating processes involved in the association? Specifically, do poo…
Age Differences in Self-Assessments of Health: Age Changes, Cohort Differences, or Survivorship?
Do older people tend to exaggerate their health problems? Or do they downplay them? Do such tendencies change as people age? Are they a function of cohort membership? Or are differences in health perceptions among elderly people due to differences in survivorship within the elderly cohorts? These questions are examined with longitudinal data from the Yale Health and Aging Project, a stratified probability sample of elderly persons in New Haven, C…
Health Perceptions and Survival: Do Global Evaluations of Health Status Really Predict Mortality?
Self-evaluations of health status have been shown to predict mortality, above and beyond the contribution to prediction made by indices based on the presence of health problems, physical disability, and biological or life-style risk factors. Several possible reasons for this association are discussed: (a) methodological shortcomings of previous studies render the association spurious; (b) other psychosocial influences on mortality are involved an…
Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES-I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
The ability of self-rated health status to predict mortality was tested with data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-I) Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study (NHEFS), conducted from 1971-84. The sample consists of adult NHANES-I respondents ages 25-74 years (N = 6,440) for whom data from a comprehensive physical examination at the initial interview and survival status at follow-up are available. Self-rated health consists o…
Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES-I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
The ability of self-rated health status to predict mortality was tested with data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-I) Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study (NHEFS), conducted from 1971-84. The sample consists of adult NHANES-I respondents ages 25-74 years (N = 6,440) for whom data from a comprehensive physical examination at the initial interview and survival status at follow-up are available. Self-rated health consists o…
Positive Affect and Function as Influences on Self-Assessments of Health: Expanding Our View Beyond Illness and Disability
Longitudinal data from 851 elderly residents of a retirement community ( \(\mathrm{mean\ age\ }\mathbf{=}\ 73\ \mathrm{years}\) ) were used to examine the correlates of self-assessments of health (SAH) and the predictors of changes in SAH over several follow-up periods ranging from 1 to 5 years. The authors hypothesized that indicators of positive health, including feelings of energy and positive mood, social support, and active functioning, are …
Religion among Disabled and Nondisabled Persons I: Cross-sectional Patterns in Health Practices, Social Activities, and Well-being Ellen
What is the relationship between religious involvement and functional disability among elderly people? Is being disabled different for those who frequently attend religious services? Does religious involvement have an effect on subsequent change in disability? Deriving our hypotheses from traditional theories in the sociology of religion, these questions are explored in these two related articles. Both employ data from the New Haven site of the E…
Religion among Disabled and Nondisabled Persons II: Attendance at Religious Services as a Predictor of the Course of Disability
Does religious involvement influence changes in physical health? We perform a longitudinal analysis of the effect of religious participation on functioning over a 12-year follow-up period, in a large, prospective, representative sample of elderly persons from New Haven, Connecticut, a religiously diverse community. To examine the possibility that disability or changes in disability may be affecting religious involvement, we perform a second longi…
Self-Rated Health and Physical Disability in Elderly Survivors of a Major Medical Event
This article describes change and stability in self-rated health after a major medical event. Using a prospective design, it examines the ability of premorbid and post-illness health perceptions to predict physical disability independently of medical, psychosocial, and behavioral variables. Participants (N=254) were a subsample of the New Haven cohort of the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) project who had …
Religion and the Quality of Life in the Last Year of Life
Overall, QOL in the last year of life is positively related to religious involvement, particularly its more subjective dimensions
Patterns of Religious Practice and Belief in the Last Year of Life
Community studies of respondents in their last year of life are rare. In this sample, religious involvement appears to continue throughout the last months of life
Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES-I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
The ability of self-rated health status to predict mortality was tested with data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-I) Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study (NHEFS), conducted from 1971-84. The sample consists of adult NHANES-I respondents ages 25-74 years (N = 6,440) for whom data from a comprehensive physical examination at the initial interview and survival status at follow-up are available. Self-rated health consists o…
Health Perceptions and Survival: Do Global Evaluations of Health Status Really Predict Mortality?
Self-evaluations of health status have been shown to predict mortality, above and beyond the contribution to prediction made by indices based on the presence of health problems, physical disability, and biological or life-style risk factors. Several possible reasons for this association are discussed: (a) methodological shortcomings of previous studies render the association spurious; (b) other psychosocial influences on mortality are involved an…
Age Differences in Self-Assessments of Health: Age Changes, Cohort Differences, or Survivorship?
Do older people tend to exaggerate their health problems? Or do they downplay them? Do such tendencies change as people age? Are they a function of cohort membership? Or are differences in health perceptions among elderly people due to differences in survivorship within the elderly cohorts? These questions are examined with longitudinal data from the Yale Health and Aging Project, a stratified probability sample of elderly persons in New Haven, C…
Self-Ratings of Health: Do they also Predict change in Functional Ability
Self-ratings of health by individuals responding to surveys have shown themselves to be potent predictors of mortality in a growing number of studies; they appear to contribute significant additional independent information to health status indicators gathered through self-reported health histories or medical examinations. A key question raised by these studies is: What are the mediating processes involved in the association? Specifically, do poo…
Self-Rated Health and Physical Disability in Elderly Survivors of a Major Medical Event
This article describes change and stability in self-rated health after a major medical event. Using a prospective design, it examines the ability of premorbid and post-illness health perceptions to predict physical disability independently of medical, psychosocial, and behavioral variables. Participants (N=254) were a subsample of the New Haven cohort of the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) project who had …
Religion among Disabled and Nondisabled Persons II: Attendance at Religious Services as a Predictor of the Course of Disability
Does religious involvement influence changes in physical health? We perform a longitudinal analysis of the effect of religious participation on functioning over a 12-year follow-up period, in a large, prospective, representative sample of elderly persons from New Haven, Connecticut, a religiously diverse community. To examine the possibility that disability or changes in disability may be affecting religious involvement, we perform a second longi…
Religion among Disabled and Nondisabled Persons I: Cross-sectional Patterns in Health Practices, Social Activities, and Well-being Ellen
What is the relationship between religious involvement and functional disability among elderly people? Is being disabled different for those who frequently attend religious services? Does religious involvement have an effect on subsequent change in disability? Deriving our hypotheses from traditional theories in the sociology of religion, these questions are explored in these two related articles. Both employ data from the New Haven site of the E…
Survival, Functional Limitations, and Self-rated Health in the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, 1992
This study examined relative hazards for mortality and functional limitations according to poor self-ratings of health using prospective data from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, a representative sample of US adults aged 25-74 years that has been followed since the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) was conducted in 1971-1975. Follow-up data were taken from death records and from the 1982 and 1992 reinte…
Positive Affect and Function as Influences on Self-Assessments of Health: Expanding Our View Beyond Illness and Disability
Longitudinal data from 851 elderly residents of a retirement community ( \(\mathrm{mean\ age\ }\mathbf{=}\ 73\ \mathrm{years}\) ) were used to examine the correlates of self-assessments of health (SAH) and the predictors of changes in SAH over several follow-up periods ranging from 1 to 5 years. The authors hypothesized that indicators of positive health, including feelings of energy and positive mood, social support, and active functioning, are …
Patterns of Religious Practice and Belief in the Last Year of Life
Community studies of respondents in their last year of life are rare. In this sample, religious involvement appears to continue throughout the last months of life
The Many Causal Pathways Linking Religion to Health
Journal Article The Many Causal Pathways Linking Religion to Health Get access Ellen L. Idler Ellen L. Idler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Policy & Aging Report, Volume 12, Issue 4, Summer 2002, Pages 7–12, https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/12.4.7 Published: 01 June 2002
Response To: "Idler and Kasl's p Values: A Cautionary Lesson"
Psychosomatic Medicine, founded in 1939, is the official organ of the American Psychosomatic Society. It publishes experimental and clinical studies dealing with various aspects of the relationships among social, psychological, and behavioral factors and bodily processes in humans and animals. It is an international, interdisciplinary journal devoted to experimental and clinical investigation in behavioral biology, psychiatry, psychology, physiol…
Religion and the Quality of Life in the Last Year of Life
Overall, QOL in the last year of life is positively related to religious involvement, particularly its more subjective dimensions
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