Predicting the Psychological Health of Older Adults: Interaction of Age-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Discriminative Facility

We hypothesize that older adults who anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely react to social rejection because of their old age (i.e., have high age-based rejection sensitivity) are vulnerable to depression and poor social functioning. We further hypothesize that the association between ag...

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Main Authors: CHOW, Debbie Sau-King, AU, Evelyn Wing-Mun, CHIU, Chi-Yue
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-16032017-07-12T06:30:26Z Predicting the Psychological Health of Older Adults: Interaction of Age-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Discriminative Facility CHOW, Debbie Sau-King AU, Evelyn Wing-Mun CHIU, Chi-Yue We hypothesize that older adults who anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely react to social rejection because of their old age (i.e., have high age-based rejection sensitivity) are vulnerable to depression and poor social functioning. We further hypothesize that the association between age-based rejection sensitivity and poor psychological health would be attenuated among older adults who possess adequate cognitive coping ability--they can discern and respond discriminatively to subtle variations in situational demands (i.e., have high discriminative facility). Based on the results of a focus group study, we constructed an age-based rejection sensitivity measure, which predicts greater depression, poorer social functioning, greater loneliness, and lower life satisfaction among individuals in late adulthood. As hypothesized, the relationship between age-based rejection sensitivity and poor psychological health was weaker among older adults with high (vs. low) discriminative facility. 2008-02-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/604 info:doi/10.1016/j.jrp.2007.05.001 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1603/viewcontent/1_s20_S0092656607000633_main.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Older Adults Rejection Sensitivity Discriminative Facility Family, Life Course, and Society Social Psychology
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Singapore
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topic Older Adults
Rejection Sensitivity
Discriminative Facility
Family, Life Course, and Society
Social Psychology
spellingShingle Older Adults
Rejection Sensitivity
Discriminative Facility
Family, Life Course, and Society
Social Psychology
CHOW, Debbie Sau-King
AU, Evelyn Wing-Mun
CHIU, Chi-Yue
Predicting the Psychological Health of Older Adults: Interaction of Age-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Discriminative Facility
description We hypothesize that older adults who anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely react to social rejection because of their old age (i.e., have high age-based rejection sensitivity) are vulnerable to depression and poor social functioning. We further hypothesize that the association between age-based rejection sensitivity and poor psychological health would be attenuated among older adults who possess adequate cognitive coping ability--they can discern and respond discriminatively to subtle variations in situational demands (i.e., have high discriminative facility). Based on the results of a focus group study, we constructed an age-based rejection sensitivity measure, which predicts greater depression, poorer social functioning, greater loneliness, and lower life satisfaction among individuals in late adulthood. As hypothesized, the relationship between age-based rejection sensitivity and poor psychological health was weaker among older adults with high (vs. low) discriminative facility.
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author CHOW, Debbie Sau-King
AU, Evelyn Wing-Mun
CHIU, Chi-Yue
author_facet CHOW, Debbie Sau-King
AU, Evelyn Wing-Mun
CHIU, Chi-Yue
author_sort CHOW, Debbie Sau-King
title Predicting the Psychological Health of Older Adults: Interaction of Age-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Discriminative Facility
title_short Predicting the Psychological Health of Older Adults: Interaction of Age-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Discriminative Facility
title_full Predicting the Psychological Health of Older Adults: Interaction of Age-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Discriminative Facility
title_fullStr Predicting the Psychological Health of Older Adults: Interaction of Age-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Discriminative Facility
title_full_unstemmed Predicting the Psychological Health of Older Adults: Interaction of Age-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Discriminative Facility
title_sort predicting the psychological health of older adults: interaction of age-based rejection sensitivity and discriminative facility
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2008
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/604
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1603/viewcontent/1_s20_S0092656607000633_main.pdf
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