Age Variations in Personal Agency and Self-Esteem

Journal of Aging and Health - Tập 13 Số 2 - Trang 155-185 - 2001
Scott Schieman1, Janice Campbell2
1#N# University of Maryland, USA
2University of Miami

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Objectives: This study examines howage patterns in health control, self-efficacy, and self-esteem are influenced by age-correlated social status, health, personality, and social integration variables. Methods:Ordinary least squares regression documents age patterns in data from a 1985 community sample of 1,549 physically disabled and nondisabled individuals from southwestern Ontario, Canada. Results:Older respondents report lower health control, self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Less education, more physical impairment, poorer global health, less empathy, and less introspectiveness explain about 43% of age’s negative association with health control and more than half of its negative association with self-esteem. In addition, age is associated more negatively with self-efficacy among the disabled. Social status variables conceal the strength of the age-by-disability interaction coefficient, while health accounts for almost an equal amount. Discussion:The findings describe how age-correlated personal and social factors contribute to, or statistically conceal, older adults’ sense of health control, self-efficacy, and self-esteem.

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Journal of Aging and Health

Tập 13 Số 2

155-185

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