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Examination of the association of age, disability, and mood among Jewish older adults in Israel
- Author:
- LITWIN H.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 6(4), November 2002, pp.397-401.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The purpose of this article is to examine the association between chronological age, disability and mental health in later life. Secondary analysis of data from a national probability sample of Jewish persons age 60 and over in Israel was employed. Mental health, measured on a 12-item mood scale, was successively regressed on age, sociodemographic characteristics, functional disability and physical health status, and on the interaction of age and disability. A significant negative association between age and mood emerged when confounding variables were not controlled. This association remained, to a lesser degree, after sociodemographic variables were entered. The addition of disability and health variables reversed the direction of the association. Finally, the entry of the interaction term (age x disability) bolstered the net association of age and mood.