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HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages 651-655Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.23.6.651
Keywords
gender; self-rated health; hierarchical linear models; longitudinal; life course
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- NIMH NIH HHS [1K01MH064779-01A1] Funding Source: Medline
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Self-ratings of health are uniquely predictive of morbidity and mortality, and they encompass people's evaluations of many medical, psychological, and social conditions in their lives. However, the longitudinal trajectory of self-rated health has not been evaluated to date. In the present study, 59-year longitudinal multilevel analyses (1940-1999) of data from 1,411 men and women revealed that self-rated health was relatively stable until age 50 and then began to decrease in an accelerating fashion through the rest of the life course. Men had higher self-rated health throughout most of adulthood than did women but had steeper linear rates of decline. As a result, the gender difference in self-rated health disappeared by late adulthood.
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