Age Differences in Coping Resources and Satisfaction With Life Among Middle-Aged, Young-Old, and Oldest-Old Adults

Hamarat, Errol; Thompson, Dennis; Aysan, Ferda; Steele, Don; Matheny, Ken; Simons, Carol

doi:10.1080/00221320209598689

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“…In our hierarchical multivariate regression models, depressive symptoms and trauma symptoms were inversely associated with resilience, as expected. Also, older age was associated with increased resilience, consistent with prior studies demonstrating an association between greater resilience and increasing age (Hamarat, Thompson, Steele, Matheny, & Simons, 2002). However, while semantic verbal fluency (Animals), processing speed (WAIS-III Symbol Search), and non-verbal memory (BMVT delayed recall) continued to predict occupational resilience when partialling out the effects of age, education, HIV status, depressive and posttraumatic stress symptoms, the direction of these effects were in the opposite direction than what we hypothesized, such that lower neurocognitive scores were associated with greater resilience.…”

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Associations between neurocognitive functioning and social and occupational resilience among South African women exposed to childhood trauma

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European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Prior research on adaptation after early trauma among black South African women typically assessed resilience in ways that lacked contextual specificity. In addition, the neurocognitive correlates of social and occupational resilience have not been investigated. Objective: The primary aim of this exploratory study was to identify domains of neurocognitive functioning associated with social and occupational resilience, defined as functioning at a level beyond what would be expected given exposure to childhood trauma. Methods: A sample of black South African women, N = 314, completed a neuropsychological battery, a questionnaire assessing exposure to childhood trauma, and self-report measures of functional status. We generated indices of social and occupational resilience by regressing childhood trauma exposure on social and occupational functioning, saving the residuals as indices of social and occupational functioning beyond what would be expected given exposure to childhood trauma. Results: Women with lower non-verbal memory evidenced greater social and occupational resilience above and beyond the effects attributable to age, education, HIV status, and depressive and posttraumatic stress symptoms. In addition, women with greater occupational resilience exhibited lower semantic language fluency and processing speed. Conclusion: Results are somewhat consistent with prior studies implicating memory effects in impairment following trauma, though our findings suggest that reduced abilities in these domains may be associated with greater resilience. Studies that use prospective designs and objective assessment of functional status are needed to determine whether non-verbal memory, semantic fluency, and processing speed are implicated in the neural circuitry of post-traumatic exposure resilience.

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confidence: 87%

Associations between neurocognitive functioning and social and occupational resilience among South African women exposed to childhood trauma

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Spies

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European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…Previous studies tell us that LS has been found to increase with age, but no study has previously investigated older age groups, and the difference that impaired vision can make in LS. Others have also found that older age groups have higher levels of LS (Hamarat et al 2002;Hileras et al 2001). Hamarat et al found that among healthy, active adults, aged 45?, the oldest old reported LS at least as good as, and better than the younger age groups.…”

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“…Heyl and Wahl (2001) found that both the vision impaired and sighted groups reported a decline in overall LS, however, several studies have found that LS actually improved with age in those aged 65? (Hamarat et al 2002;Hileras et al 2001). Moreover, Diener (1984) found LS generally improves after about age 40.…”

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Life satisfaction and quality of life of older New Zealanders with and without impaired vision: a descriptive, comparative study

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Eur J Ageing

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A study involving older New Zealanders (aged 65?) explored levels of life satisfaction reported by groups with and without impaired vision as well as factors contributing to and detracting from quality of life (QOL). Those with impaired vision (n = 135) had a visual acuity of 6/24 (i.e., 20/80) or worse in the better eye with corrective lenses, or a field of vision not greater than 20°at its widest diameter and had a mean age of 82.3 (SD = 6.76). Those with no significant impairment of vision (n = 425) were able read newsprint and legally drive and had a mean age of 74 (SD = 6.49). Overall, those with impaired vision reported a significantly lower level of life satisfaction in comparison to their sighted peers. There was a significant interaction effect of vision status and age, such that those with impaired vision aged 85? reported life satisfaction scores higher than those reported by their sighted peers. Family and friends emerged as most important contributors to QOL for the vision-impaired group, where good health was the primary contributor to those with sight. Detractors to QOL reported by those with impaired vision included poor vision, inability to drive and poor health. Those with no significant impairment of vision reported poor health, physical impairment and poor finances detracted from QOL. Results could enable ageing and rehabilitation service providers to design rehabilitation programmes addressing areas reported to be most important to older adults with and without impaired vision.

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“…23 In two studies among older adults, level of life satisfaction was found to be the same across all ages. 24,25 Furthermore, older age has been seen to be positively associated with family life and financial and vocational situation. 23 In contrast, other studies have suggested caution when comparing life satisfaction with different age groups; 23 however, this uncertainty might be due to SWLS items 4-5, which have been shown to be sensitive to age, 12 whereas SWLS items 1-3 have been found to be insensitive to age.…”

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Mid-term follow-up of patients with permanent sequel due to spinal cord ischemia after advanced endovascular therapy for extensive aortic disease

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Study design: Observational study. Objectives: Thoraco-abdominal endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (TAEVAR) can be used to treat patients with extensive and complex aortic disease, however, at the risk of spinal cord ischemia (SCI). The aim of this follow-up study was to evaluate the life satisfaction in patients with SCI after TAEVAR. Setting: Among 83 patients undergoing TAEVAR between 2009 and 2012 at the Vascular Centre, Malmö, Sweden, 29 developed SCI in-hospital and at follow-up (median 26 months), eight had died and three had no complaints. Methods: Patients diagnosed with permanent (n = 10) and transient (n = 8) SCI were interviewed at home. The Life Satisfaction Questionnaire (LiSat-11) and the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) were compared with reference samples. Results: Mid-term mortality in patients with permanent SCI (7/17) was higher than those with transient SCI (1/12) (P = 0.035). Ten patients had permanent T1-S5 SCI, two were classified as ASIA Impairment Scale (AIS) A, one as AIS B and seven as AIS D at hospital discharge. Patients diagnosed with transient SCI had residual neurological deficits in the legs (n = 8), urge incontinence (n = 3) and fecal leakage (n = 2) at follow-up. Patients with SCI had lower self-rated life satisfaction in terms of 'life as a whole', 'sexual life', 'somatic health' and 'psychological health' but better in the 'economy' domain. Conclusion: Assessment of life satisfaction at mid-term follow-up suggests that all patients with SCI in-hospital, whether permanent or transient, should have a multi-disciplinary follow-up regime. Most patients diagnosed with transient neurological deficits had an overlooked permanent, less severe, SCI.

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Age Differences in Coping Resources and Satisfaction With Life Among Middle-Aged, Young-Old, and Oldest-Old Adults

Cited by 109 publications

References 18 publications

Associations between neurocognitive functioning and social and occupational resilience among South African women exposed to childhood trauma

Associations between neurocognitive functioning and social and occupational resilience among South African women exposed to childhood trauma

Life satisfaction and quality of life of older New Zealanders with and without impaired vision: a descriptive, comparative study

Mid-term follow-up of patients with permanent sequel due to spinal cord ischemia after advanced endovascular therapy for extensive aortic disease

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