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Coping trajectories in later life: a 20-year predictive study.

P L Brennan¹, J M Holland, K K Schutte

¹Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA. penny.brennan@va.gov

Aging & Mental Health

|March 8, 2012

Summary

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Coping strategies generally decline in older adults over time, but this aging-related change is influenced by individual factors like threat appraisal, stressor characteristics, and personal/social resources.

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Area of Science:

Gerontology
Psychology
Health Sciences

Background:

Limited longitudinal research exists on aging-related changes in coping behavior.
Previous studies primarily used cross-sectional designs to examine age differences in coping.

Purpose of the Study:

To longitudinally examine 20-year intraindividual coping trajectories (approach and avoidance) in older adults.
To identify predictors of change in coping behavior, including threat appraisal, stressor characteristics, and personal/social resources.

Main Methods:

Longitudinal multilevel modeling was used with 719 older adults (baseline age 61).
Data were collected over a 20-year period to track coping strategies.
Predictors included threat appraisal, stressor characteristics, gender, and baseline resources.

Main Results:

A general decline in approach and avoidance coping was observed over 20 years, with significant individual variation.
Higher initial coping was associated with female gender, greater threat appraisal, stressor severity, social resources, depressive symptoms, and fewer financial resources.
Baseline social and financial resources predicted the rate of decline in approach coping; depressive symptoms and financial resources predicted decline in avoidance coping.

Conclusions:

Coping decline in later life may be a normative aging process.
This decline is modifiable by older adults' appraisals of stressors, the nature of stressors, and their personal and social resources in late-middle-age.