ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2022
Life Course Stressors and Functional Limitations in Later Life Among White, Black, and Hispanic Adults: Deleterious, Hardening, or Benign?
Article in The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Disparities in the Life Course Origins of Dual Functionality.Journal of health and social behavior · 2025Article
- Childhood and Adulthood Trauma Associate With Cognitive Aging Among Black and White Older Adults.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Disparities in Stress Exposure and Later-Life Disability.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Race and sex differences in the longitudinal changes in multidimensional self-reported sleep health characteristics in aging older adults.Sleep health · 2023Article
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- Advancing methods for the biodemography of aging within social contexts.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Dual Functionality in Later Life.The Gerontologist · 2023Article
- Childhood Stressors, Relationship Quality, and Cognitive Health in Later Life.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesAlthough striking racial and ethnic disparities in health are manifest during later life, they may be rooted in early-life exposures. Drawing from cumulative inequality theory, we investigate whether life course stressors are associated with the risk of later-life functional limitations and whether this relationship differs by race and ethnicity.
methodsWe utilize longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study to test whether child and adult stressors predict trajectories of the occurrence and severity of functional limitations among a diverse sample of older adults.
resultsChild and adult stressors are associated with greater occurrence and severity of functional limitations during later life. Mediation analyses reveal the indirect influence of child stressors via adult stressors on occurrence and severity of functional limitations; however, the indirect effects are slightly stronger for Black and Hispanic adults than their White counterparts. DISCUSSION: Child stressors, in and of themselves, do not increase functional limitations among Black and Hispanic people but are associated with greater adult stress exposure, predisposing them to more functional limitations. Results suggest that childhood stressors are associated with distinct social pathways to functional limitations among White, Black, and Hispanic older adults.
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