Changes in views on aging in later adulthood: the role of cardiovascular events

Wurm, Susanne; Wiest, Maja; Wolff, Julia K.; Beyer, Anja; Spuling, Svenja M.

doi:10.1007/s10433-019-00547-5

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“…As qualitative research on back pain suggests, the former finding could be explained by people perceiving restrictive back pain as an indicator of inevitable age-related problems (Makris et al, 2015). The latter finding on hypertension, however, appears surprising considering that no solid effect for myocardial infarction could be shown, and that cardiovascular events of larger magnitude were previously shown to be associated with VoA in different studies (Diehr et al, 2001;Wurm et al, 2020). In our study, cancer was tied to SA but no solid association to ATOA as reported in recent findings (Martin et al, 2019) could be shown.…”

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Health and Subjective Views on Aging: Longitudinal Findings From the ActiFE Ulm Study

Schönstein

Dallmeier

Denkinger

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The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

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Objectives Previous research supports that subjective views on aging (VoA), such as older subjective age (SA) and negative attitudes toward own aging (ATOA) go along with negative outcomes. A differentiated treatment of health and disease as antecedents of VoA is largely lacking. Therefore, our objective was to estimate the relationship between generally framed physical, affective, and cognitive health as well as specific diseases and VoA, operationalized both as SA and ATOA. Methods Data was drawn from the ActiFE-Ulm study for which a representative sample of community-dwelling older people (65-90 years) was recruited at baseline. Follow-ups were conducted 7.7 years (median) after recruitment (N=526). Health and disease related data at baseline, based on established assessment procedures for epidemiological studies, were regressed on VoA (1-item SA indicator, 5-item ATOA scale) measures at follow-up. Results Reported severity of affective health problems such as depression was the strongest general risk-factor for both older SA and negative ATOA. Also, some but not all major diseases considered were associated with VoA. Notably, back pain predicted negative ATOA, while cancer was associated with older SA. Rheumatism was linked with more negative ATOA along with higher SA. Throughout analyses, explained variance in ATOA was considerably higher than in SA. Conclusions Affective health problems, such as depression, should be regarded as a major correlate of subjective aging views. Interestingly, diseases do not have to be life-threatening to be associated with older SA or negative ATOA.

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Health and Subjective Views on Aging: Longitudinal Findings From the ActiFE Ulm Study

Schönstein

Dallmeier

Denkinger

et al. 2021

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

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“…The authors find that having a cardiovascular event causes people to view their own ageing more negatively and feel older. The studies of Stephan et al ( 2019 ) and Wurm et al ( 2019 ) demonstrate that views on ageing not only drive health behaviour changes, health, and even mortality as shown by previous studies (e.g. Klusmann et al 2019 ; Stephan et al 2015 , 2018 ; Westerhof and Wurm 2018 ; Wurm et al 2010 ), but, vice versa, are also driven by changes in health.…”

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“…Their findings are in line with the results of a 6-month intervention study which found that physical activity participation prevented increases in ageing dissatisfaction, which can be explained by motivational benefits or mastery experiences (Klusmann et al 2012 ). Wurm et al ( 2019 ) investigate how views on ageing may change as a result of a critical health event. In a matched-participants design, they compare about 200 people of the German Ageing Survey who experienced a cardiovascular event to 200 people who did not.…”

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Klusmann

Kornadt

2020

Eur J Ageing

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“…This is most likely due to the relative stability of SPA. SPA generally do not change much, unless there is a critical life event like, for example, a cardiovascular event (Wurm et al 2019 ). Due to this stability, only minor effects on SPA can be expected.…”

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Shifting self-perceptions of ageing: differential effects of value priorities on self-perceptions of ageing beyond age stereotypes

Blawert

Wurm

2020

Eur J Ageing

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Self-perceptions of ageing (SPA) are important predictors of health in later life. However, research on antecedents of SPA other than age stereotypes is scarce. To address this gap, this study investigates the impact of personal value priorities beyond age stereotypes on SPA. Can values as the motivational basis of attitudes and evaluations predict gain-and loss-related SPA? To answer this question, we conducted multiple regression analyses of longitudinal data from two waves (2008, 2011) of the German Ageing Survey (DEAS; N = 6089, age range in 2008: 40-93 years). Gain-and loss-related SPA as well as age stereotypes were assessed with two AgeCog scales and personal values with the 21-item Portrait Values Questionnaire. Results indicate that value priorities relate to SPA longitudinally in domain-specific ways: People with a value priority of openness to change and self-transcendence reported more gain-related SPA at follow-up, whereas those who prioritized conservation reported less gain-related SPA. In the domain of loss-related SPA, those people with a value priority of self-enhancement reported more and those prioritizing self-transcendence reported less loss-related SPA at follow-up. These results complement and extend recent findings on the role of personality for SPA. They suggest that whether people focus on the gains or losses that occur with age, whether they perceive ageing as a threat or chance, is not only shaped by their age stereotypes, but also by what they find important-their values.

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Changes in views on aging in later adulthood: the role of cardiovascular events

Cited by 22 publications

References 53 publications

Health and Subjective Views on Aging: Longitudinal Findings From the ActiFE Ulm Study

Health and Subjective Views on Aging: Longitudinal Findings From the ActiFE Ulm Study

Current directions in views on ageing

Shifting self-perceptions of ageing: differential effects of value priorities on self-perceptions of ageing beyond age stereotypes

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