TY - JOUR
T1 - Profiles of physical, emotional and psychosocial wellbeing in the Lothian birth cohort 1936
AU - Zammit, Andrea R.
AU - Starr, John M.
AU - Johnson, Wendy
AU - Deary, Ian J.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the Scottish for Research in Education for allowing access to the SMS1947. We thank the LBC1936 study participants. We thank Alan Gow, Janie Corley, Alison Pattie, Catherien Murray, Caroline Brett, Michelle Taylor and Caroline Cameron for data collection. The work was undertaken by The University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology, part of the cross council Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Initiative (G0700704/84698). Funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC) is gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Background: Physical, emotional, and psychosocial wellbeing are important domains of function. The aims of this study were to explore the existence of separable groups among 70-year olds with scores representing physical function, perceived quality of life, and emotional wellbeing, and to characterise any resulting groups using demographic, personality, cognition, health and lifestyle variables. Methods. We used latent class analysis (LCA) to identify possible groups. Results: Results suggested there were 5 groups. These included High (n = 515, 47.2% of the sample), Average (n = 417, 38.3%), and Poor Wellbeing (n = 37, 3.4%) groups. The two other groups had contrasting patterns of wellbeing: one group scored relatively well on physical function, but low on emotional wellbeing (Good Fitness/ Low Spirits,n = 60, 5.5%), whereas the other group showed low physical function but relatively well emotional wellbeing (Low Fitness/Good Spirits, n = 62, 5.7%). Salient characteristics that distinguished all the groups included smoking and drinking behaviours, personality, and illness. Conclusions: Despite there being some evidence of these groups, the results also support a largely one-dimensional construct of wellbeing in old age - for the domains assessed here - though with some evidence that some individuals have uneven profiles.
AB - Background: Physical, emotional, and psychosocial wellbeing are important domains of function. The aims of this study were to explore the existence of separable groups among 70-year olds with scores representing physical function, perceived quality of life, and emotional wellbeing, and to characterise any resulting groups using demographic, personality, cognition, health and lifestyle variables. Methods. We used latent class analysis (LCA) to identify possible groups. Results: Results suggested there were 5 groups. These included High (n = 515, 47.2% of the sample), Average (n = 417, 38.3%), and Poor Wellbeing (n = 37, 3.4%) groups. The two other groups had contrasting patterns of wellbeing: one group scored relatively well on physical function, but low on emotional wellbeing (Good Fitness/ Low Spirits,n = 60, 5.5%), whereas the other group showed low physical function but relatively well emotional wellbeing (Low Fitness/Good Spirits, n = 62, 5.7%). Salient characteristics that distinguished all the groups included smoking and drinking behaviours, personality, and illness. Conclusions: Despite there being some evidence of these groups, the results also support a largely one-dimensional construct of wellbeing in old age - for the domains assessed here - though with some evidence that some individuals have uneven profiles.
KW - Latent class analysis
KW - Physical wellbeing
KW - Profiles
KW - Psychosocial wellbeing
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U2 - 10.1186/1471-2318-12-64
DO - 10.1186/1471-2318-12-64
M3 - Article
C2 - 23088370
AN - SCOPUS:84867637487
SN - 1471-2318
VL - 12
JO - BMC Geriatrics
JF - BMC Geriatrics
M1 - 64
ER -