Sex and age cohort differences in patterns of socioemotional functioning in older adults and their links to physical resilience

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作者
Consedine N.S. [1 ]
Magai C. [2 ]
Krivoshekova Y.S. [3 ]
机构
[1] Psychology Department, Long Island University
[2] Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
[3] Intercultural Institute on Human Development and Aging, Long Island University (Brooklyn)
关键词
Social Network; Emotion Regulation; Negative Emotion; Religious Coping; Young Cohort;
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10.1007/s12126-005-1013-z
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Although the aging process brings with it some common challenges to older men and women, there has been little attention to gender differences in patterns of socioemotional functioning or their links to adaptive outcome. In this paper we examine patterns of socioemotional functioning among 687 "younger" (65-73 years) and 426 "older" (74-86 years) men and women, describe sex differences in these patterns, and examine whether the same patterns are linked to physical resilience in the same ways across groups. Cluster analysis was applied to 11 measures of socioemotional functioning with ten qualitatively different patterns emerging. As expected, men and women from our two age groups were not equally distributed across the patterns. As expected, older men more frequently manifested patterns of adaptation characterized by inhibited emotion but, together with younger men, were less likely to be represented in patterns characterized by stress-buffering friend support networks. The patterns also showed predictable links to a measure of physical resiliency, which was predicted by participant sex, and both sex and age interacted with cluster membership in predicting resiliency. Taken together, these data underscore the complexity of adaptation to later life among men and women and highlight the possibility that the existence of particular patterns of later life adaptation may have differing late life consequences for older men and women. Implications for the continued study of sex differences in adaptation to later life and directions for future research are given. © 2005.
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页码:209 / 244
页数:35
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