Health Sensitivity: Age Differences in the Within-Person Coupling of Individuals' Physical Health and Well-Being

Autor/inn/en	Schöllgen, Ina; Morack, Jennifer; Infurna, Frank J.; Ram, Nilam; Gerstorf, Denis
Titel	Health Sensitivity: Age Differences in the Within-Person Coupling of Individuals' Physical Health and Well-Being
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 52 (2016) 11, S.1944-1953 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000171
Schlagwörter	Physical Health; Well Being; Depression (Psychology); Quality of Life; Older Adults; Retirement; Longitudinal Studies; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Age Differences; Correlation; Measures (Individuals); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Death; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheitszustand; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Lebensqualität; Älterer Erwachsener; Pensionierung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Korrelation; Messdaten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall
Abstract	Well-being and physical health are central indicators of quality of life in old age. Research from a between-person difference perspective finds that people in better health than their peers also report higher well-being than their peers. However, we know very little about whether changes in one domain are accompanied by changes in the other domain, particularly at the within-person level. In the present study, we introduce the construct of health sensitivity, that is, how susceptible an individuals' well-being is to changes in physical health. In doing so, we used 9-wave longitudinal data covering 17 years from the Health and Retirement Study (N = 21,689; 50-109 year olds; 55% women) and applied multilevel modeling to examine the covariation of central indicators of well-being (depressive affect) and health (functional limitations) simultaneously at both the between-person and within-person level. At the within-person level, we found evidence of health sensitivity--on occasions when a typical person experienced more functional limitations than usual, he or she also reported more depressive affect--and that health sensitivity decreased with age. Survival analysis revealed that health sensitivity was related to mortality hazards, controlling for mean levels of health and well-being. We discuss the theoretical importance of examining within-person associations between health and well-being and consider practical implications. (As Provided).
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