Neal Krause

..Data from a nationwide survey of elderly people provided empirical support for both hypotheses...

..These findings underscore the importance of adopting a life course perspective in studying the social determinants of health among adults...

..These findings emphasize the pervasive influence of gender in American society and add focus to researchers' understanding of the long-term health effects of early parental support...

..A second goal is to assess whether emotional support provided by social network members helps offset the deleterious effects of stress on meaning and health...

..This research examines how physical and mental health influence living arrangements among older Americans and whether these effects differ for married and unmarried persons...

..This appears to be the first time that the relationship among humility, lifetime trauma, and change in religious doubt has been evaluated empirically...

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..Findings from the study model suggest that making mandas is associated with a greater sense of personal control, and more personal control is associated, in turn, with better health...

..The purpose of this study is to see whether older people who have found that fellow church members value their life experience encounter fewer symptoms of depression...

..But perhaps more important, the findings further reveal that the effects of living in run-down neighborhoods on social support and negative interaction are completely offset for older individuals who possess strong social skills...

..In contrast, emotional support does not offset the negative effects of financial strain on life satisfaction among the young-old...

..A second goal is to determine if church-based social support is a more important coping resource for older Blacks than for older Whites...

..The theoretical and practice implications of these results are discussed...

..Throughout, an effort is made to show how current research on religion and health may be used to provide more comprehensive care for our aging population...

..In the process, an effort was made to see if older people in lower socioeconomic status (SES) groups were more vulnerable to the potentially deleterious effects of interpersonal conflict than upper SES elders...

..Moreover, the young-old appear to be at greatest risk. Finally, data suggest that trauma arising between the ages of 18 and 30 years, as well as ages 31 to 64 years, has the strongest relationship with current health...

..The purpose of this study was to see if support provided and received from fellow church members reduced the deleterious effects of financial strain on mortality in late life...

..The purpose of this study was to see if feelings of control over highly valued social roles decline across late life. I also made an effort to see if two types of social support explained age-related decline in control...

..More specifically, the results suggest that a sense of meaning in life declines at an accelerating rate across progressively higher levels of difficulty with thought suppression...

..The purpose of this study is to see if a strong sense of meaning in life helps older adults cope more effectively with the effects of lifetime trauma...

..In contrast, the findings revealed that, at least initially, negative interaction lowers an older person's sense of meaning in life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)...

..Although older people may assist others in different ways within the church, the informal assistance they provide to coreligionists appears to be more strongly associated with health when they are more deeply committed to their faith...

..The purpose of this exploratory study was to see if meaning in life is associated with mortality in old age...

..This article studies whether there are age variations in the relationships between having a close companion friend at church, health, and outpatient physician visits...

..This issue is addressed by presenting a conceptual model that focuses on the needs that are satisfied by religion. In the process, an effort is made to show how this conceptual scheme can be used to add greater coherence to the field...

..The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between religiously based beliefs about suffering and health among older Mexicans...

..The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among lifetime exposure to traumatic events, emotional support, and life satisfaction in three cohorts of older adults...

..The intent was to illustrate one way in which qualitative and quantitative methods could be combined in the same study...

..The results suggest that those who administer welfare programs, as well as public policymakers, should consider developing interventions that address the wider psychosocial problems associated with receiving public assistance...

..To see whether three dimensions of religion (private religious practices, religious coping, and belief in the afterlife) buffer the effect of the death of a significant other on change in self-reported hypertension over time...

..In contrast, control over the 2nd and 3rd most important roles are not related to mortality, nor are feelings of control over life as a whole. The theoretical implications of these findings are discussed...

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..A conceptual model is evaluated that explores the relationship between church-based support and health. In the process, an effort is made to see if the relationships in this model differ for older White and African American people...

..Moreover, the results reveal that the deleterious effects of doubt are greater for younger than for older people. Implications for practice with adults across the life span are suggested...

..g., with children) tend to encounter them in others as well (e.g., with friends). This suggests that some older people may play a role in creating the negative interactions they encounter...

..The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between religious meaning and subjective well-being. A major emphasis is placed on assessing race differences in the relationship between these constructs...

..To see whether older adults cope with stress in highly salient roles by devaluing the importance of the role in which the event emerged...

..This study aimed to see whether involvement in religion helps explain why older Blacks are more likely to avoid drinking alcohol than older Whites...

..In contrast, significant stress-buffering effects failed to emerge when functional disability served as the outcome measure...

..A detailed theoretical rationale is developed to explain these results...

..We sought to depict how trajectories of functional status are related to the average changes in self-rated health and its underlying trajectories...

..The validity of prior observations needs to be further evaluated. This research examines socioeconomic inequalities in old age mortality in Japan, with a special emphasis on how inequalities interact with gender and age...

..This research examines how the trajectories of self-rated health evolve among elderly Japanese individuals and how socioeconomic status (SES), social relations, and baseline health differentiate these trajectories...

..The purpose of this study is to evaluate the interface among common facets of religion, unique facets of religion, and life satisfaction in a nationwide sample of older Black people...

..To track the course of age-related changes in emotional and tangible support given and received by older adults in the context of their religious congregations...

..This study aimed to assess whether changes in levels of financial strain are associated with changes in alcohol use and smoking among older adults...

..This study assessed how and why the social stratification of leisure-time physical activity changes as adults at different points in the life course, and from different birth cohorts, grow older...

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..This research evaluates the hypothesis that poor health triggers a change in living arrangements among elderly adults in Japan...

..This finding has important implications for targeting interventions and should stimulate further study regarding how and why responses to stress change progressively with age...

..Similarly, self-unforgiveness has an indirect effect on depressive symptoms through rumination...

..The implications of these findings for designing interventions to help those who witness violent acts are discussed...

..and (c) late onset of functional impairment. These findings may serve as useful benchmarks for observations derived from other developed nations...

..g., child rearing, adverse life experiences) or decreasing religiosity (e.g., disillusionment with church members, adverse life experiences). Directions for future research are discussed...

..Major study procedures include the conceptualization and measurement of key study constructs, the estimation of structural equation models within a latent variable framework, and the replication of research findings...

..To compare and contrast race differences in religiousness as well as race differences in the relationship between religion and health among older Whites, older Blacks, and older Mexican Americans. ..

..A wide range of state-of-the-art data analytic procedures will be used to empirically evaluate these issues. Included among these procedures are individual growth curve models and latent variable structural equation models. ..

..To compare and contrast race differences in religiousness as well as race differences in the relationship between religion and health among older Whites, older Blacks, and older Mexican Americans. ..

..g., the marital role); 8. To see whether the value placed on social roles influences whether the effects of stressors arising in one role spill over into another role. ..

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..To compare and contrast race differences in religiousness as well as race differences in the relationship between religion and health among older Whites, older Blacks, and older Mexican Americans. ..