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Author: Seeman, Melvin
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1. Seeman, Melvin
Lewis, Susan Kay
Powerlessness, Health and Mortality: A Longitudinal Study of Older Men and Mature Women
Social Science and Medicine 41,4 (August 1995): 517-525.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/027795369400362W
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Health Care; Health Factors; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Mortality; Psychological Effects

Data from the 1976/77 and 1981/82 National Longitudinal Surveys of older men (ages 45-59 when first surveyed in 1966) and 3,475 mature women (ages 30-44 in 1967) establish the association over time between the sense of powerlessness and various indices of health status (chiefly, psychosocial symptoms and limits on physical activities). Results are basically coordinate for men and women, and are replicated for initially healthy and initially impaired subsamples. Powerlessness is associated with greater activity limits and more psychosocial symptoms, and also provides prospective prediction, since high initial powerlessness scores are associated with health problems observed 5 and 10 years later, with initial health controlled. Increasing powerlessness accompanies deterioration in health (with stringent controls on prior health). For a subsample of men, mortality 1976-1981 is also associated with initially high powerlessness scores (with prior health controlled). Results are discussed for their import in relation to the steadily growing interest in social psychological factors in health. 4 Tables, 35 References. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1996, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Bibliography Citation
Seeman, Melvin and Susan Kay Lewis. "Powerlessness, Health and Mortality: A Longitudinal Study of Older Men and Mature Women." Social Science and Medicine 41,4 (August 1995): 517-525.
2. Wight, Richard G.
Aneshensel, Carol S.
Seeman, Melvin
Seeman, Teresa E.
Late Life Cognition Among Men: A Life Course Perspective On Psychosocial Experience
Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 37,2 (September 2003): 173-193.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167494303000463
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; Education; Educational Attainment; Life Course; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale)

This report assesses associations between trajectories of psychosocial experience over the life course and cognitive function in late life men. Survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Older Men, a community sample of 1835 United States men aged 45--59 years in 1966, are used to explore the cognitive effects of personality (locus of control) and emotion (affect) as these attributes evolve from middle age to late life. Locus of control is very stable over time, whereas negative and positive affect fluctuate. Inverse relationships are found between cognitive function and external locus of control, enduring negative affect, and the absence of positive affect. Levels of education also moderate these effects. Low educational attainment appears to intensify the risk for poor cognitive function associated with mixed internal-external locus of control and poor emotional state over time. The connection between education, usually completed early in the life course, and late life cognitive outcomes emphasizes the importance of promoting educational attainment among young people. Among older men with low educational attainment, the identification of mood disorders and personality attributes that negatively impact cognition may lead to the development of appropriate interventions. (Entrez-PubMed, 2003.)
Bibliography Citation
Wight, Richard G., Carol S. Aneshensel, Melvin Seeman and Teresa E. Seeman. "Late Life Cognition Among Men: A Life Course Perspective On Psychosocial Experience." Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 37,2 (September 2003): 173-193.