Perceived Control and Social Activity in Midlife and Older Age: A Reciprocal Association? Findings From the German Ageing Survey
Perceived Control and Social Activity in Midlife and Older Age: A Reciprocal Association? Findings From the German Ageing Survey
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DOI：
10.1093/geronb/gbw070
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发表时间：
2018-07-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Windsor, Tim D.
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作者：
Curtis, Rachel G.;Huxhold, Oliver;Windsor, Tim D.
目的：感知控制可能会促进老年人的社会活动，因为具有更大感知控制的个体对自己实现结果的能力更有信心，更有可能选择困难的活动，表现出持久性，并采用策略来克服挑战。横截面研究已经将感知控制与寿命和老年人样本中的社会活动联系起来，但对影响的方向几乎没有提供任何见解。我们研究了相互之间的关联，以建立时间序列，这是一个先决条件，以确定潜在的causation.Method：参与者是14,126中年和老年人从德国老龄化调查。使用交叉滞后自回归模型与年龄的时间度量（40-87岁），我们研究了相互3年滞后协会之间的控制感和社会活动，同时控制并发associations.Results：控制感显着预测社会活动3年后。反过来，社会活动显着预测感知控制3年后。知觉控制对社会活动的影响大于社会活动对知觉Control.Discussion的影响：知觉控制显着预测未来的社会活动的发现有潜在的影响，旨在促进社会活动在中年和老年人的干预措施。
Objectives: Perceived control may promote social activity in older adults because individuals with greater perceived control have greater confidence in their ability to achieve outcomes and are more likely to choose difficult activities, show persistence, and employ strategies to overcome challenges. Cross-sectional research has linked perceived control with social activity in life span and older adult samples but provides little insight into the direction of influence. We examined reciprocal associations between perceived control and social activity in order to establish temporal sequencing, which is one prerequisite for determining potential causation.Method: Participants were 14,126 midlife and older adults from the German Ageing Survey. Using cross-lagged autoregressive modeling with age as the time metric (40-87 years), we examined reciprocal 3-year lagged associations between perceived control and social activity, while controlling for concurrent associations.Results: Perceived control significantly predicted social activity 3 years later. Reciprocally, social activity significantly predicted perceived control 3 years later. The influence of perceived control on social activity was greater than the influence of social activity on perceived control.Discussion: The finding that perceived control significantly predicts future social activity has potential implications for developing interventions aimed at promoting social activity in midlife and older adults.