Age Differences in Stress and Coping: Problem-Focused Strategies Mediate the Relationship Between Age and Positive Affect

Chen, Yiwei; Peng, Yisheng; Xu, Huanzhen; O’Brien, William H.

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“…Therefore, the PCP model considers coping an internal resource directly linked to successful aging, as marked by well-being, and taking into account this approach, problem-focused strategies would be those to endorse for successful aging outcome. However, evidence points that older adults use more emotionfocused coping strategies, rather than problem-focused ones (Mayordomo-Rodríguez et al, 2015b;Chen et al, 2018).…”

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Predicting Well-Being Among the Elderly: The Role of Coping Strategies

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Objectives: This study aims to offer a wider view on the role of coping strategies on elderly's well-being by means of literature-based competitive structural equation models (SEMs). Methods: 857 older adults were surveyed. Measures included Ryff's scales of Psychological Well-being and the Coping Strategies Questionnaire. Competitive SEMs were tested. Results: In the retained model, the religious coping dimension was removed, and the remaining dimensions were defined by problem-and emotion-focused coping, which explained both psychological and subjective well-being factors (χ 2 (46) = 165.910, p < 0.001; CFI = 0.906; GFI = 0.957; RMSEA = 0.058 [0.048,0.067]). Discussion: Results pointed to the relevance of coping strategies for achieving adequate well-being, with emotion-focused coping strategies being the ones with negative and highest predictive power over the two dimensions of well-being. Interventions aiming at improving old people's well-being should, put their focus on decreasing the use of emotion-coping strategies.

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“…Physical health decline is a major source of stress among older adults ( Chen, Peng, Xu, & O’Brien, 2018 ). According to the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST; Carstensen, Isaacowitz, & Charles, 1999 ), older adults may conserve their cognitive resources and are more likely than younger adults to focus on health and well-being because of their limited future time perspective.…”

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Perceived Stress and Cognitive Functions Among Chinese Older Adults: The Moderating Role of Health Status

Chen

Liang

Sun

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Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

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Objective: The primary purposes of the present study are (a) to investigate the stress–cognition relationship among U.S. Chinese older adults and (b) to examine the moderating role of health status on the stress–cognition relationship. Method: Data were drawn from the Population Study of Chinese Elderly in Chicago (PINE), which investigated 3,157 Chinese adults over 60 years old living in Chicago. Participants reported health status and completed the Chinese Perceived Stress Scale. Cognitive functions were measured by the East Boston Memory Test, the Digit Span Backward, the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, and Chinese Mini-Mental State Examination. Results: Controlling for age, sex, education, and income, perceived stress was negatively associated with cognitive functions, whereas health status was positively associated with cognitive functions. In addition, older adults’ health status interacted with stress such that the negative relationships between perceived stress and cognitive functions were more pronounced for those who had poor health than for those who had good health. Conclusion: Findings suggest that physical health is a critical factor moderating the relationship between perceived stress and cognitive functions among U.S. Chinese older adults. Longitudinal research is needed to examine the complex relationships among stress, health, and cognitive functions of U.S. Chinese older adults.

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“…As for association among level of stress and age also study year variable, no significant difference were found here. This conflicted past study about stress, coping and appraisal (Aldwin, Sutton, Chiara, & Spiro, 1996) which reported that level of stress varied with regard to age differences or study concerning age differences in stress, coping and which ways of coping mediate relationship between age and positive affect (Chen, Peng, Xu, & O'Brien, 2018).…”

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Perceived Stress Level Among Madrasah â€˜Aliyah Students During Examination Week

Akbar

Rizki

Nur

2018

Int. J. Islam. Stud. Human

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Academic demands including examinations are found to be the major contributor of stress development among students. Current research is purposed to investigate the prevalence of perceived stress level among Madrasah Aliyah students during examination week. This study was a descriptive and cross-sectional design applying quantitative method for data collection. With respect to the sample, 107 students form Madrasah Aliyah Pasirjambu, Kab. Bandung were proportionally selected from class 10 to class 12. To measure the degree to which particular situations and conditions happening in student’s life are appraised or perceived as stressful situation, Perceived Stress Scale developed by Sheldon Cohen was administered. After which, having gained ethical approval from the foundation board and school director, the data were collected and analyzed using statistical program of SPSS. Result showed that during examination, majority of them were experiencing moderate level of stress accounting for more than 80% and no significant differences of stress level were found with respect to gender, age and study year (class).

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Age Differences in Stress and Coping: Problem-Focused Strategies Mediate the Relationship Between Age and Positive Affect

Cited by 129 publications

References 33 publications

Predicting Well-Being Among the Elderly: The Role of Coping Strategies

Predicting Well-Being Among the Elderly: The Role of Coping Strategies

Perceived Stress and Cognitive Functions Among Chinese Older Adults: The Moderating Role of Health Status

Perceived Stress Level Among Madrasah â€˜Aliyah Students During Examination Week

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