The Costs of Coping: Long-Term Mortality Risk in Aging Men.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Prospective associations between coping and all-cause mortality risk are understudied, particularly among nonmedical samples. We assessed independent and joint associations of multiple components of the transactional stress and coping model with all-cause mortality in a cohort of community-dwelling men. We were particularly interested in how coping effort related to mortality.

Methods

Participants included 743 men from the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study who completed 1+ stress and coping assessment in 1993-2002 (baseline age: M = 68.4, standard deviation [SD] = 7.1) and had mortality follow-up through 2020. The Brief California Coping Inventory assessed coping with a past-month stressor. Cox regression evaluated associations of problem stressfulness, copin

SUBMITTER: Marino VR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10948961 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature