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Anxiety about aging, resilience and health Status among Chinese older adults: Findings from Honolulu and Wuhan.

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Zhang, K; Zhang, W; Wu, B; Liu, S
Published in: Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
May 2020

A growing body of literature found that anxiety about aging is related to health and well-being of older adults. However, very few studies have been conducted on Chinese older adults residing in different countries and examined the role of resilience. Using the Pearlin's Stress Process Model, this study aims to fill in this gap by examining the relationship between anxiety about aging as the stressor and health status among Chinese older adults living in Honolulu, the United States (N = 292) and Wuhan, China (N = 532). The survey data were collected through June 2017 to September 2018, using snowball and convenience sampling strategy. The moderating role of resilience on the focal relationship is also explored. Results showed that for both samples, the negative relationship between anxiety about aging and self-rated health was significantly moderated by resilience (18 % and 13 %, respectively), implying the stress-buffering role of resilience. Although both mean levels of resilience and anxiety about aging were lower for the Honolulu sample, the moderating effect appeared to be stronger, implying that older adults in the Honolulu sample might rely more on psychological resources such as resilience in coping with stressors, compared with their counterparts in Wuhan. However, the moderating effect of resilience did not work for the association between anxiety about aging and number of chronic conditions for both samples. Our findings suggest that future research needs to take into account both social and psychological resources when examining anxiety about aging and health status among Chinese older adults residing in different cultural contexts.

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Archives of gerontology and geriatrics

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EISSN

1872-6976

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0167-4943

Publication Date

May 2020

Volume

88

Start / End Page

104015

Related Subject Headings

  • Resilience, Psychological
  • Humans
  • Health Status
  • Hawaii
  • Geriatrics
  • China
  • Anxiety
  • Aging
  • Aged
  • 4206 Public health
 

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Zhang, K., Zhang, W., Wu, B., & Liu, S. (2020). Anxiety about aging, resilience and health Status among Chinese older adults: Findings from Honolulu and Wuhan. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 88, 104015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2020.104015
Zhang, Keqing, Wei Zhang, Bei Wu, and Sizhe Liu. “Anxiety about aging, resilience and health Status among Chinese older adults: Findings from Honolulu and Wuhan.Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 88 (May 2020): 104015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2020.104015.
Zhang K, Zhang W, Wu B, Liu S. Anxiety about aging, resilience and health Status among Chinese older adults: Findings from Honolulu and Wuhan. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics. 2020 May;88:104015.
Zhang, Keqing, et al. “Anxiety about aging, resilience and health Status among Chinese older adults: Findings from Honolulu and Wuhan.Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, vol. 88, May 2020, p. 104015. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.archger.2020.104015.
Zhang K, Zhang W, Wu B, Liu S. Anxiety about aging, resilience and health Status among Chinese older adults: Findings from Honolulu and Wuhan. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics. 2020 May;88:104015.
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Published In

Archives of gerontology and geriatrics

DOI

EISSN

1872-6976

ISSN

0167-4943

Publication Date

May 2020

Volume

88

Start / End Page

104015

Related Subject Headings

  • Resilience, Psychological
  • Humans
  • Health Status
  • Hawaii
  • Geriatrics
  • China
  • Anxiety
  • Aging
  • Aged
  • 4206 Public health