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Affect and loneliness among centenarians and the oldest old: the role of individual and social resources. |
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Aging and Mental Health, 15(3), April 2011, pp.385-396. |
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1360-7863 |
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1364-6915 |
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Affect and loneliness are important indicators of mental health and well-being in older adulthood. Negative affect appears to be related to psychological distress and depression. Positive affect is associated with optimism, adaptive coping responses, and lower depression. The aim of this study was to examine the ability of individual and social resources in predicting positive and negative affect and loneliness within a sample of oldest-old individuals including centenarians. Data collection was done as part of the Georgia Centenarian Study, Phase 3, 2001-2008. The eligible sample for this study included 55 octogenarians aged 81-90 years and 77 centenarians and near centenarians aged 98-109 years, all of whom scored 17 or more on the Mini-Mental Status Exam. The participants completed demographics and multiple indicators of mental health, functional ability, cognition, social functioning, and personality. Hierarchical regression analyses demonstrated that, within this sample of cognitively intact oldest old, measures of executive control and cognitive functioning demonstrated limited association with mental health. Personality, specifically neuroticism, was strongly related to mental health indicators for both age groups and social relations were particularly important associates of centenarians' mental health. |
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emotions; loneliness; mental health problems; personality; social networks; very old people; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=f34ba59d-5b69-4a6d-b0af-91ecd19f64b2 |
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