Leisure Activity Engagement and Positive Affect Partially Mediate the Relationship Between Positive Views on Aging and Physical Health

Hicks, Stephanie; Siedlecki, Karen L.

doi:10.1093/geronb/gbw049

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“…The successful aging model highlights the process of adaptation to health challenges as described in the selective optimization with compensation model (Baltes & Baltes, 1993). People with a higher sense of control over personal health through information acquisition and/or better self-care practices have significantly slower rates of health-related decline over time (Kempen, Ranchor, van Sonderen, van Jaarsveld, & Sanderman, 2006; Hicks & Siedlecki, 2017). Obtaining health information from online sources is a proactive behavioral adaptation to health challenges that increase in later life (Cotten, Ford, Ford, & Hale, 2012; Drentea, Goldner, Cotten, & Hale, 2008; Stowe & Cooney, 2015).…”

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Digital Pathways to Positive Health Perceptions: Does Age Moderate the Relationship Between Medical Satisfaction and Positive Health Perceptions Among Middle-Aged and Older Internet Users?

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Yeatts

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Innovation in Aging

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ObjectivesWe explored the influence of e-trust, e-health literacy, e-health information seeking, and e-health information consumerism on medical satisfaction and positive health perceptions.MethodsOur sample consisted of 499 randomly selected panel members aged 40–93. We employed hierarchical ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analyses and structural equation modeling (SEM). We examined the moderating role of age on the relationship between medical satisfaction and positive health perceptions.ResultsA significant interaction was found between age and medical satisfaction in predicting positive health perceptions in the OLS regression models. Medical satisfaction has a stronger association with self-care, health-related quality of life, and health status in the older adult sample as compared with the middle-aged sample. SEM analyses revealed that e-health information seeking has an indirect effect on both medical satisfaction and positive health perceptions through its significant direct effect on e-health information consumerism. Both e-trust and e-health consumerism were significant predictors. The e-health literacy and e-trust measures were significant predictors of the positive health perception index in the OLS regression models.DiscussionThe results contribute to our understanding of the potential benefits information technologies have for the health and well-being of computer-connected aging adults.

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confidence: 99%

Digital Pathways to Positive Health Perceptions: Does Age Moderate the Relationship Between Medical Satisfaction and Positive Health Perceptions Among Middle-Aged and Older Internet Users?

Seçkin

Hughes

Yeatts

et al. 2019

Innovation in Aging

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“…In this investigation, older adults with positive self-perception of life as well as those with dancing habits presented less clinical-functional vulnerability, probably because they developed successful trajectories in aging, with particular attention to the variable of "dancing habits" associated with robustness between long-lived older adults (80 years or older) and young-old adults (60 to 79 years). The literature also showed that older adults capable of managing their own life (autonomy) and performing leisure activities revealed a self-perception of optimistic life, which contributes to a healthy and active old age 1,2,[23][24][25][26] .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Another significant point related to healthy longevity was the fact that the older population with cognitive and functionally independent abilities acquire healthy behaviors throughout life 2,24,26,29 and can even enjoy digital technology in health management 30 . Such statement reiterates the findings of this research, in which the interviewees considered robust showed a higher prevalence of walking habits, as well as absence of cognitive impairment or depressive symptoms.…”

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Robust older adults in primary care: factors associated with successful aging

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OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of robustness among older adults assisted in primary health care and identify factors in successful aging. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study conducted with older adults in Northern Minas Gerais, Brazil. Two questionnaires were used for data collection: the Brazilian Older Americans Resources and Services Multidimensional Function Assessment Questionnaire (BOMFAQ) and the Clinical-Functional Vulnerability Index IVCF-20). The adjusted prevalence ratios were obtained by robust Poisson regression. Statistical analysis was performed for older adults in general (60 to 107 years) and stratified by age: from 60 to 79 years and 80 years or more. RESULTS: A total of 1,750 older adults aged 60 to 107 years participated; between them, 48.7% were robust. Older adults aged 60 to 79 years (n = 1,421) and 80 years or more (n = 329) had a prevalence of robustness of 55.4% and 19.3%, respectively. Some factors associated with successful aging were: positive self-perception of health, dancing habits, walking habits, absence of cognitive impairment, absence of depressive symptoms and polypathology, as well as daily life independence. After adjustment by age, the absence of polypathology and independence for activities of daily living stand out for robustness between 60 and 79 years; in those aged 80 years and over, independence for activities of daily living and dance practice presented greater strength of association. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of robust older adults in primary care is considered satisfactory for the older population in general but decreases with age and is associated with the absence of diseases and disabilities. These results denote the need to redesign the health care system, focusing on promoting and preventing clinical-functional vulnerability.

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“…This framework focuses on how productive activity in retirement -such as paid work, volunteering, or caregiving -is favourable for individuals and for society (Morrow-Howell & Wang, 2013). Productive aging is a sharp contrast to earlier conceptualizations of retirement that underscored decline and isolation (Butler & Gleason, 1985;Morrow-Howell, Hinterlong, & Sherraden, 2001;O'Reilly & Caro, 1995) and is also a contrast to cultural depictions of the "golden years" that represent retirement as a time to enjoy life without the burdens of work (Hicks & Siedlecki, 2017). Productive aging has been criticized for imposing negative judgements on older adults who fail to engage in economically productive activity for a variety of reasons including declining health or caregiving obligations (Bülow & Söderqvist, 2014;Dillaway & Byrnes, 2009;Holstein, 1993;Martinson & Halpern, 2011).…”

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Retired

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2018

Can. J. Aging

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RÉSUMÉDans cette étude qualitative, j’ai utilisé une approche fondée sur la gérontologie narrative pour examiner les perceptions liées à la retraite dans un groupe de 26 hommes et femmes qui ont pris leur retraite après un mandat de chef de la direction. Le guide d’entrevue a pris en compte la perspective du parcours de vie. Trois thèmes clés ont émergé : 1) l’importance de la productivité et du réseautage, alors que les participants gravissaient les échelons de l’entreprise ; 2) le sentiment d’avoir une date « meilleur avant » et d’avoir cédé aux pressions de la société en faveur de la retraite ; et 3) l’impression troublante de se sentir insignifiant à la retraite tout en ayant le désir de poursuivre l’épanouissement personnel en continuant à travailler contre rémunération. Après une carrière marquée par des réalisations pionnières, les participants ont éprouvé un sentiment insoutenable de légèreté lors de l’abandon des responsabilités professionnelles. Ces résultats mettent en lumière l’importance de la perspective de parcours de vie pour examiner la retraite à la fois comme une expérience personnelle et un phénomène social. Les résultats contribuent également à la compréhension théorique du vieillissement productif en illustrant comment les idées préconçues sur la productivité contrastent avec les aspirations associées à une retraite remplie de loisirs, d’une manière qui pourrait réduire les contributions à l’emploi de certaines personnes.

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Leisure Activity Engagement and Positive Affect Partially Mediate the Relationship Between Positive Views on Aging and Physical Health

Abstract: Leisure activity engagement and positive affect were shown to help explain the relationship between PVA and health, but differently for different health constructs and also among middle-aged and older adults. Findings provide further insight into ways in which PVA influence health.

Cited by 24 publications

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Digital Pathways to Positive Health Perceptions: Does Age Moderate the Relationship Between Medical Satisfaction and Positive Health Perceptions Among Middle-Aged and Older Internet Users?

Digital Pathways to Positive Health Perceptions: Does Age Moderate the Relationship Between Medical Satisfaction and Positive Health Perceptions Among Middle-Aged and Older Internet Users?

Robust older adults in primary care: factors associated with successful aging

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Retired

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